Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: A Bird’s-Eye View 1
4. 1. Two Ordinary Books: Ma Lianyuan and Nūr al-Ḥaqq 18
5. 2. The Matrix of the Ordinary: The Textual World of Nineteenth-Century Yunnan 42
6. 3. Extraordinary Books: Wang Daiyu and Long Ahong 66
7. 4. The Matrix of the Extraordinary: Inter-Asian Muslim Networks of the Seventeenth Century 86
8. 5. Origins Identify: Lan Xu, Manṣūr Ma Xuezhi, Muḥammad Yūsuf, and Ma Qirong 109
9. 6. Origins Reveal: The Naqshbandiyya Mujaddidiyya 134
10. 7. Origins Move: Diasporas of the Hijaz, Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Northwest China 160
11. 8. Origins Distort: Myths of the Han Kitab 180
12. 9. Origin Without Essence: Ascription and Transmission in Islamic China 206
13. Conclusion 225
14. Appendix: Books Published by Ma Lianyuan 237
15. Notes 239
16. Selected Primary Sources 275
17. Acknowledgments 283
18. Index 287