China's early mosques

by Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman

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Title Statements

Full title :China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt

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

Edition Statements

Publication Date:c 2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh Univ. Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Language:eng
Publication Date:c 2015

The Physical Object

Description:XXIV, 331 S : : zahlr. illustrations, graph. Darst., Kt

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780748670413, 0748670416
oclc:ocn961233597
LC Classification:NA6043
Dewey Decimal:720

Subjects

Architecture -- Influence islamique Architecture -- Islamic influences Architecture islamique Architecture islamique -- Histoire Architektur China Geschichte Histoire History history (discipline) Islamic architecture Islamic architecture -- History Moschee Mosques Mosques -- History