Islam in the Chinese Religious Landscape: Secularization of Mosque Leadership in Late Imperial China, 1600–1900

This paper argues that in late imperial China, leaders of mosques and Muslim communities underwent a secularizing process, shifting from traditional spiritual leaders to social and political Muslim elites in the mainstream Chinese society. Instead of causing a decline of Islam, the process produced...

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Main Author: Zhang, Shaodan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2021
In: International Journal of Islam in Asia
Year: 2021, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 44-69
Further subjects:B Customary law
B Mosques
B Islamic Education
B Secularization
B Professionalization
B late imperial China
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