Description
Traces the 1200-year history of Muslims in China and shows how tremendous changes in the country impacted Chinese Muslim communities
About the Author
James D. Frankel is an Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Reviews
This concise, highly readable account of Muslim communities in China begins with a succinct but sufficient historical narrative and ends with a balanced and well-informed discussion of today's Uyghur controversy. It's the one book on Chinese Islam that everyone should read. * Richard W. Bulliet, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University, USA *
This volume fills a longstanding gap, a single-volume history of China written with Muslims and Islam at its center rather than its margins. Focusing on the Chinese-speaking Muslims (Hui), with some attention to the Turkic-speakers of the far northwest, Professor Frankel presents a clear, succinct narrative carefully placed in its local contexts, from Fujian to Xinjiang, Beijing to Yunnan. The actors-intellectuals and soldiers, scholars and clerics, schoolteachers and merchants-participated in and were profoundly affected by the "mainstream" of Chinese history but also strove to remain different from their non-Muslim colleagues and neighbors. Islam in China provides a valuable introduction to China as part of the Muslim world and Muslims as an important part of China. * Jonathan N. Lipman, Professor Emeritus of History and Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College, USA, Author of Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China *
An excellent and much needed survey of the long history of Islam in China. -- Sachiko Murata, Stony Brook University, USA
James Frankel has accomplished the difficult task of synthesizing the narratives of multiple communities, conflicting political bodies, and diverse literary archives to offer a detailed history of Muslims in China. Islam in China will likely remain the most comprehensive account for the foreseeable future. * Kristian Petersen, Assistant Professor, Old Dominion University, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781784539818
Author James Frankel
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint I.B. Tauris
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 334g