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'Are they really Muslims?' Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little-studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China's western borders.
List of contents
Part 1 Identity and Survival Chapter 2 Muslims in China: Incompatibility between Islam and the Chinese Order Chapter 3 Ahung and Literatus: A Muslim Elite in Confucian China Chapter 4 Muslim Minorities under Non-Islamic Rule Chapter 5 Ethnicity, Religion, Nationality, and Social Conflict: The Case of Chinese Muslims Chapter 6 Myth as Memory: Muslims in China between Myth and History Part 7 Normative Islam and its Derivatives Chapter 8 Established Islam and Marginal Islam: From Eclecticism to Syncretism Chapter 9 Islamization and Sinicization in Chinese Islam Chapter 10 Naqshbandiyya and Factionalism in Chinese Islam Chapter 11 Is there Shi'a in Chinese Islam? Chapter 12 Translation as Exegesis: The Opening Sura of the Quran in Chinese Part 13 Unrest and Rebellion Chapter 14 Muslim Rebellions in Muslim China: A Part of, or a Counterpart to, the Chinese Revolution Chapter 15 The Islamic Republics in Central Asia and the Middle East Part 16 Into the Modern World Chapter 17 The Cross Battles the Crescent: A Century of Missionary Work Among Chinese Muslims (1850-1950) Chapter 18 The Muslim Minority in the People's Republic of China Chapter 19 A New Wave of Muslim Revivalism in China Part 20 Surveys Chapter 21 al-Sin Chapter 22 Islam in China Chapter 23 Islam in China Chapter 24 Islam in the Chinese Environment Chapter 25 China's Muslims
About the author
Raphael Israeli has taught Islamic, Chinese, and Middle Eastern history at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. A graduate of Hebrew University in history and Arabic literature, he earned a Ph.D. in Chinese and Islamic history from the University of California, Berkeley. Now retired, he has been a Fellow of the Harry Truman Research Institute at Hebrew University and the Jerusalem Center since the1970s. He is the author of more than 100 books and 100 articles.
Summary
'Are they really Muslims?' Islam in China reveals the struggle for identity of the small yet vital Muslim community of China, a little-studied minority on the fringes of the Islamic world now thrust into the spotlight by the opening of China to the world and the rise of independent Muslim republics on China's western borders.
