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Author Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, author.

Title China's early mosques / Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt.

Publication Info. Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.
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.
Contents 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.
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Subject Mosques -- China -- History.
Mosques.
China.
History.
Islamic architecture -- China -- History.
Islamic architecture.
Architecture -- China -- Islamic influences.
Architecture.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman. China's early mosques. Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2015] 9780748670413 (DLC) 2015510122 (OCoLC)917363149
ISBN 9781474472852 (electronic book)
1474472850 (electronic book)
9780748670413
0748670416