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Title

The Islamic-Confucian synthesis in China / edited by Zongping Sha and Shuchen Xiang ; translated by Stephen Nashef, Chongning Zhang, and Tianyi Zhang.

Publication

• Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
• ©2023

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Additional Authors

• Sha, Zongping
• Xiang, Shuchen
• Nashef, Stephen
• Zhang, Chongning
• Zhang, Tianyi (Writer on philosophy)

Description

x, 125 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

• The presence and history of Islam in China is not well-known. Since its arrival into China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 CE), Islam and its traditions have become an inextricable part of the fabric of the Chinese tradition. By the time of the Ming dynasty (1368-1644 CE), Chinese Islam had evolved its own indigenous identity and, by the seventeenth century, specifically Chinese formulations of Islamic teachings began to emerge. This edited volume presents the most authoritative contemporary scholarship on the topic of the Islam-Confucian synthesis in China. It introduces to an international audience the hybridization of traditions throughout the millennia of Chinese history. The experience of the Islamic-Confucian synthesis is a historical example of cross-cultural thinking and mutual borrowing. It testifies to the fact that there is no incommensurability between cultures that cannot ultimately be accommodated. In this accommodation is the potential for mutual and creative growth, novelty, cultural renaissance, and the flourishing of the human spirit.
• This volume examines the history of Islam in China since its arrival during the Tang dynasty. The contributors look at how Chinese Muslims created a philosophical worldview that is described and analyzed here as the ""Islamic-Confucian synthesis.""

Subject

• Islam > Confucianism
• Confucianism > Islam
• Islam > China > History
• Confucianism
• Interfaith relations
• Islam
• Religion
• China > Religion
• China

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Sinicization of Islam and "Interpreting the Scripture Through Confucianism" -- Chapter 3. Han Kitab Of Muslims in Ming Dynasty and Confucianism -- Chapter 4. Dialogue Between Islam and Confucianism: A Study of Chinese Islamic Philosophy in The Ming and Qing Dynasties -- Chapter 5. The Cycle of Great Transformation: An Initial Survey of The Philosophy of Early Qing Dynasty Chinese Muslim Thinker Liu Zhi -- Chapter 6. Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in the Light of Zhenjing Zhaowei.
• Translated from the Chinese.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

• 9781666913361
• 1666913367
• 9781666913378 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

• 1377245693
• on1377245693
• SCSB-14510180

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library