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A significant study of the writings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Liu Zhi and his innovative role in contextualising Islamic texts for a Chinese audience.
Liu Zhi (c.1662-c.1730), a well-known Muslim scholar writing in Chinese, published outstanding theological works, short treatises, and short poems on Islam. While traditional Arabic and Persian Islamic texts used unfamiliar concepts to explain Islam, Liu Zhi translated both text and concepts into Chinese culture. In this erudite volume, David Lee examines how Liu Zhi integrated the basic religious living of the monotheistic Hui Muslims into their pluralistic Chinese culture. Liu Zhi discussed the Prophet Muhammad in Confucian terms, and his work served as a bridge between peoples. This book is an in-depth study of Liu Zhi's contextualization of Islam within Chinese scholarship that argues his merging of the two never deviated from the basic principles of Islamic belief.
Liu Zhi (c.1662-c.1730), a well-known Muslim scholar writing in Chinese, published outstanding theological works, short treatises, and short poems on Islam. While traditional Arabic and Persian Islamic texts used unfamiliar concepts to explain Islam, Liu Zhi translated both text and concepts into Chinese culture. In this erudite volume, David Lee examines how Liu Zhi integrated the basic religious living of the monotheistic Hui Muslims into their pluralistic Chinese culture. Liu Zhi discussed the Prophet Muhammad in Confucian terms, and his work served as a bridge between peoples. This book is an in-depth study of Liu Zhi's contextualization of Islam within Chinese scholarship that argues his merging of the two never deviated from the basic principles of Islamic belief.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 304
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
28 July 2016
Trim Size: 9.02 X 5.98 in
ISBN: 9780227176207
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Christianity, Theology
This is a brilliant study of the contextualization of Arabic and Persian Sufi Muslim writing for a Chinese audience by one of the most influential Chinese Muslim writers, Liu Zhi (c1662-c1730). David Lee has shown clearly how Liu Zhi translated key Sufi works using Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucianist concepts to encourage the reception of Islam as a fourth recognized tradition alongside the other three.
— Mark Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in Islam and Mission, London School of Theology
— Mark Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in Islam and Mission, London School of Theology
List of Figures and Tables
Foreword by Peter G. Riddell
Acknowledgments
1 Methodological Introduction
2 The Historical, Philosophical, and Islamic Context in China
3 An Examination of Liu Zhi's Writings
4 Liu Zhi's Engagement with the Concept of the Unity of Existence of the Ibn 'Arabi Tradition
5 Liu Zhi's Sufi Spirituality in Conversation with the Neo-Confucian Context in China
6 Liu Zhi's Engagement with Islam and Neo-Confucian Culture in His Rules and Proprieties of Islam: An English Translation and Detailed Examination
7 Model of Contextualization, Contemporary Relevance and Final Conclusion
Appendix I: The Poem of the Five Sessions of the Moon in English
Appendix II: Translation of Selected Texts of the True Record of the Utmost Sage of Islam
Appendix III: Personal Narrative of Tianfan Dianli: (Selected Essential Explanations of the Proprieties of Islam)
Appendix IV: The Rules and Proprieties of Islam
Bibliography
Index
Foreword by Peter G. Riddell
Acknowledgments
1 Methodological Introduction
2 The Historical, Philosophical, and Islamic Context in China
3 An Examination of Liu Zhi's Writings
4 Liu Zhi's Engagement with the Concept of the Unity of Existence of the Ibn 'Arabi Tradition
5 Liu Zhi's Sufi Spirituality in Conversation with the Neo-Confucian Context in China
6 Liu Zhi's Engagement with Islam and Neo-Confucian Culture in His Rules and Proprieties of Islam: An English Translation and Detailed Examination
7 Model of Contextualization, Contemporary Relevance and Final Conclusion
Appendix I: The Poem of the Five Sessions of the Moon in English
Appendix II: Translation of Selected Texts of the True Record of the Utmost Sage of Islam
Appendix III: Personal Narrative of Tianfan Dianli: (Selected Essential Explanations of the Proprieties of Islam)
Appendix IV: The Rules and Proprieties of Islam
Bibliography
Index