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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Muslim origins in China -- 2 Muslim transplantation in early China -- 3 Muslim entrenchment in medieval China -- 4 Muslim renaissance and resistance in late imperial China -- 5 Muslim nation-building in post-imperial China -- 6 Muslims and the state in Communist China -- 7 Muslim diversity in contemporary China -- 8 Chinese Muslims, global Islam and the global power of China -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

The world of Liu Zhi -- Chinese Muslim tradition and Liu Zhi's legacy -- Liu Zhi's concepts and terminology -- Ritual as an expression of Chinese-Islamic simultaneity -- The spirit of ritual and the letter of the law -- Allah's Chinese name

In telling the story of Islam in China, scholars have tended to depict the historical encounter of China's Muslim population with the social, political and cultural forces of Chinese state and society in terms of either "conflict or concord." This generalization, which reduces a complex and nuanced history to a simple binary, is flawed not because it is completely untrue, but rather because its truth is incomplete. Chinese Muslims' responses to the social and cultural context in which they live have been diverse and multifaceted, and the phenomenon of Islam in China is no more a monolith than either of the two great, multifaceted civilizations that lend it its name. In late imperial China, within the same century, albeit at different ends of the Empire, examples of both types of Muslim response to Chinese hegemony were witnessed: intellectual rapprochement and armed rebellion. In between those extremes, however, we see varying degrees of Muslim assimilation to the norms of Chinese society and a variety of positions adopted by the imperium and officialdom vis-à-vis the Empire's Muslim subjects. In many ways, this pattern is repeated in the People's Republic of China (PRC) today.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Comparative Perspectives on Islamisation -- Part I Conversion and Islamisation: Theoretical Approaches -- 2. Global Patterns of Ruler Conversion to Islam and the Logic of Empirical Religiosity -- 3. Conversion out of Personal Principle: ʿAli b. Rabban al-Tabari (d. c. 860) and ʿAbdallah al-Tarjuman (d. c. 1430), Two Converts from Christianity to Islam -- 4. The Conversion Curve Revisited -- Part II The Early Islamic and Medieval Middle East -- 5. What Did Conversion to Islam Mean in Seventh-Century Arabia? -- 6. Zoroastrian Fire Temples and the Islamisation of Sacred Space in Early Islamic Iran -- 7. 'There Is No God But God': Islamisation and Religious Code-Switching, Eighth to Tenth Centuries -- 8. Islamisation in Medieval Anatolia -- 9. Islamisation in the Southern Levant after the End of Frankish Rule: Some General Considerations and a Short Case Study -- Part III The Muslim West -- 10. Conversion of the Berbers to Islam/Islamisation of the Berbers -- 11. The Islamisation of al-Andalus: Recent Studies and Debates -- Part IV Sub-Saharan Africa -- 12. The Oromo and the Historical Process of Islamisation in Ethiopia -- 13. The Archaeology of Islamisation in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Part V The Balkans -- 14. The Islamisation of Ottoman Bosnia: Myths and Matters -- 15. From Shahāda to 'Aqīda: Conversion to Islam, Catechisation and Sunnitisation in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli -- Part VI Central Asia -- 16. Islamisation on the Iranian Periphery: Nasir-i Khusraw and Ismailism in Badakhshan -- 17. Khwaja Ahmad Yasavi as an Islamising Saint: Rethinking the Role of Sufi s in the Islamisation of the Turks of Central Asia -- 18. The Role of the Domestic Sphere in the Islamisation of the Mongols -- Part VII South Asia -- 19. Reconsidering 'Conversion to Islam' in Indian History -- 20. Civilising the Savage: Myth, History and Persianisation in the Early Delhi Courts of South Asia -- Part VIII Southeast Asia and the Far East -- 21. China and the Rise of Islam on Java -- 22. The Story of Yusuf and Indonesia's Islamisation: A Work of Literature Plus -- 23. Persian Kings, Arab Conquerors and Malay Islam: Comparative Perspectives on the Place of Muslim Epics in the Islamisation of the Chams -- 24. Islamisation and Sinicisation: Inversions, Reversions and Alternate Versions of Islam in China -- Index