China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.
2015
NA6043 .S74 2015eb
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Title
China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.
ISBN
9781474472852 (electronic bk.)
1474472850 (electronic bk.)
9780748670413
0748670416
1474437214
9781474437219
1474472850 (electronic bk.)
9780748670413
0748670416
1474437214
9781474437219
Published
Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans.
Call Number
NA6043 .S74 2015eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1145341149
Summary
This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda. This book explains that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam. It includes case studies of China's most important surviving mosques (including 30 premodern mosques, the tourist mosques in Xi'an and Beijing, and the Uygur mosques in Kashgar). It aims to build an understanding of the mosque at the most fundamental level, asking what is really necessary for Muslim worship space. It presents Chinese architecture as uniquely uniform in appearance and uniquely adaptable to something as foreign as Islam.
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This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda. This book explains that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam. It includes case studies of China's most important surviving mosques (including 30 premodern mosques, the tourist mosques in Xi'an and Beijing, and the Uygur mosques in Kashgar). It aims to build an understanding of the mosque at the most fundamental level, asking what is really necessary for Muslim worship space. It presents Chinese architecture as uniquely uniform in appearance and uniquely adaptable to something as foreign as Islam.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Muslims, Mosques and Chinese Architecture
Muslims and Other West Asians in China before the Tenth Century
The Buddhist Model
The Chinese Model
Architectural Requirements of Muslim Worship
Mosque, Masjid, Monastery, Temple
Scholarly and Other Writing about Mosques in China
ch. 2 China's Oldest Mosques
Quanzhou's International Community
Shengyousi
Guangzhou's International Community
Huaishengsi
ch. 3 China's Other Early Mosques
Yangzhou
Hangzhou
Other Pre-fifteenth-century Mosques
ch. 4 Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums
Saidianchi
Muslim Tombs in Yuan China
Yuan Observatories
ch. 5 Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons
Huajuexiangsi, the Great Mosque in Xi'an
Jingjuesi in Nanjing
Two Famous Ming Muslims Buried in Nanjing
ch. 6 Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing
Beijing Dongsi Mosque
Mosques in Tongzhou
Note continued: Mosques in Dachang Hui Autonomous County
ch. 7 China's Most Important Yuan and Ming Mosques: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
Jining To Tianjin
Hebei West of the Grand Canal
Shanxi
Henan
Anhui
Jiangsu and Zhejiang beyond the Four Earliest Mosques
ch. 8 Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai
Ningxia
Gansu
Mosques near Xining
ch. 9 Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia
Xinjiang Islamic Architecture in Context: the Qing Architectural Enterprise
ch. 10 Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China
Kaifeng Synagogue
Church Architecture
ch. 11 Conclusion: the Chinese Mosque in the Twenty-first Century.
Muslims and Other West Asians in China before the Tenth Century
The Buddhist Model
The Chinese Model
Architectural Requirements of Muslim Worship
Mosque, Masjid, Monastery, Temple
Scholarly and Other Writing about Mosques in China
ch. 2 China's Oldest Mosques
Quanzhou's International Community
Shengyousi
Guangzhou's International Community
Huaishengsi
ch. 3 China's Other Early Mosques
Yangzhou
Hangzhou
Other Pre-fifteenth-century Mosques
ch. 4 Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums
Saidianchi
Muslim Tombs in Yuan China
Yuan Observatories
ch. 5 Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons
Huajuexiangsi, the Great Mosque in Xi'an
Jingjuesi in Nanjing
Two Famous Ming Muslims Buried in Nanjing
ch. 6 Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing
Beijing Dongsi Mosque
Mosques in Tongzhou
Note continued: Mosques in Dachang Hui Autonomous County
ch. 7 China's Most Important Yuan and Ming Mosques: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
Jining To Tianjin
Hebei West of the Grand Canal
Shanxi
Henan
Anhui
Jiangsu and Zhejiang beyond the Four Earliest Mosques
ch. 8 Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai
Ningxia
Gansu
Mosques near Xining
ch. 9 Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia
Xinjiang Islamic Architecture in Context: the Qing Architectural Enterprise
ch. 10 Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China
Kaifeng Synagogue
Church Architecture
ch. 11 Conclusion: the Chinese Mosque in the Twenty-first Century.
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Series
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
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Print version: Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. China's early mosques. Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
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