5 Ethnicity or Religion? Republican-Era Chinese Debates on Islam and Muslims

Chapters in this book

1. Contents v
2. Glossary of East Asian Names vii
3. Glossary of East Asian Terms xi
4. The Contributors xix
5. Editor’s Introduction: Four Centuries of Islamic Thought in Chinese 1
6. PART I THE QING EMPIRE (1636–1912)
7. 1 A Proper Place for God: Ma Zhu’s Chinese-Islamic Cosmogenesis 15
8. 2 Liu Zhi: The Great Integrator of Chinese Islamic Thought 34
9. 3 Tianfang Sanzijing: Exchanges and Changes in China’s Reception of Islamic La 55
10. 4 The Multiple Meanings of Pilgrimage in Sino-Islamic Thought 81
11. PART II MODERN CHINA
12. 5 Ethnicity or Religion? Republican-Era Chinese Debates on Islam and Muslims 107
13. 6 Selective Learning from the Middle East: The Case of Sino-Muslim Students at al-Azhar University 147
14. 7 Secularisation and Modernisation of Islam in China: Educational Reform, Japanese Occupation and the Disappearance of Persian Learning 171
15. 8 Between ‘Abd al-Wahhab and Liu Zhi: Chinese Muslim Intellectuals at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century 197
16. Bibliography 233
17. Index 260