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:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Edinburgh University Press
Place of Publication:Edinburgh, [Scotland]
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages) : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781474472852, 1474472850
oclc:on1145341149
LC Classification:NA6043
Dewey Decimal:720

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 -- Shan…

Subjects

ARCHITECTURE -- General Architecture -- Influence islamique. --… Architecture -- Islamic influences Architecture -- Islamic influences. -- … Architecture and Planning Architecture islamique -- Histoire. -- … China Electronic books History Islamic architecture Islamic architecture -- History. -- Chi… Mosques Mosques -- History. -- China