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Islam and Chinese Society: Genealogies, Lineage and Local Communities book cover

1st Edition

Islam and Chinese Society Genealogies, Lineage and Local Communities

Edited By Jianxiong Ma, Oded Abt, Jide Yao Copyright 2020
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Introduction: Hui Communities from the Ming to the Qing

Jianxiong Ma

    1. The Mosque and Scripture-hall Education

      2. Jianxiong Ma and Jide Yao

    2. Succession in the Yunnan School (Yunnan xuepai) of Islamic Thought

      3. Zhihong Ma

    3. Spiritual Genealogies of Gansu: Chains of Transmission in the

      4. Jahriya and Khafiya Turuq

      Jonathan N. Lipman and Thomas Wide

    4. Representations of Sufi Genealogy and Their Socio-Cultural

      5. Interaction in Modern Northwest China

      Chung-Fu Chang

    5. Social Conflicts between New Teaching and Old Teaching Sufi Orders among the Salar (Xunhua Sub-prefecture, Gansu Province) in the 18th Century

      6. Zongbao Ma

    6. Hui Lineages in Taozhou and the Acculturation of Islam during the Qing Dynasty

      7. Yue Que

    7. Ming-Qing Huihui Genealogies and Changing Communal Memory: A Study of Qingzhou (Shandong) Huihui Jiapu

      8. Huiqian Ding

    8. A Hui Muslim Lineage in Southwest China: A Case Study of the Xiaba Ma Genealogy

      9. Jianping Wang

    9. Genealogy Compilation and Identity Formation: Southeast China Communities of Muslim Descent

                      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.

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