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Islam and Chinese Society Genealogies, Lineage and Local Communities
This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity. It shows how over time Chinese Muslims adopted Chinese practices as these evolved in wider Chinese society, practices such as constructing and recording patrilinear lineages, spreading genealogies, and propagating education and Confucian teaching, in the case of the Hui through the use of Chinese texts in the teaching of Islam at mosques. The book also examines much else, including the system of certification of mosques, the development of Sufi orders, the cultural adaptation of Islam at the local level, and relations between Islam and Confucianism, between the state and local communities, and between the educated Muslim elite and the Confucian literati. Overall, the book shows how extensively Chinese Muslims have been deeply integrated within a multi-cultural Chinese society.
Introduction: Hui Communities from the Ming to the Qing
Jianxiong Ma
- The Mosque and Scripture-hall Education
- Succession in the Yunnan School (Yunnan xuepai) of Islamic Thought
- Spiritual Genealogies of Gansu: Chains of Transmission in the
- Representations of Sufi Genealogy and Their Socio-Cultural
- Social Conflicts between New Teaching and Old Teaching Sufi Orders among the Salar (Xunhua Sub-prefecture, Gansu Province) in the 18th Century
- Hui Lineages in Taozhou and the Acculturation of Islam during the Qing Dynasty
- Ming-Qing Huihui Genealogies and Changing Communal Memory: A Study of Qingzhou (Shandong) Huihui Jiapu
- A Hui Muslim Lineage in Southwest China: A Case Study of the Xiaba Ma Genealogy
- Genealogy Compilation and Identity Formation: Southeast China Communities of Muslim Descent
Jianxiong Ma and Jide Yao
Zhihong Ma
Jahriya and Khafiya Turuq
Jonathan N. Lipman and Thomas Wide
Interaction in Modern Northwest China
Chung-Fu Chang
Zongbao Ma
Yue Que
Huiqian Ding
Jianping Wang
Oded Abt
Biography
Jianxiong Ma is Associate Professor in anthropology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Oded Abt is a researcher and lecturer in Chinese social and religious history in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Hai College, Israel.
Jide Yao is Professor of Ethnology and the Director of both the Southwest Asia Institute and the Center of Iran Studies of Yunnan University, China.
