Chapter Eleven: Islam and China
Basic volumes on Muslims and Islam in China include:
Michael Dillon,
China’s Muslim Hui Community, Migration, Settlement and
Sects (Richmond, Surrey, UK: Curzon Press, 1999).
Dru C. Gladney,
Dislocating China: Muslims, Minorities, and Other
Subaltern Subjects (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Jonathan N. Lipman,
Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest
China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997).
James A. Millward,
Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang (London: C.
Hurst, 2007).
S. Frederick Starr, ed.,
Xinjiang: China’s Muslim Borderland (London: M. E.
Sharpe, 2004).
Some of the information on the Hui, including the quote on their lack of
common language,
common territory, and common economic life, is from
“Jonathan Lipman on Chinese Muslims,” on Wang Daiyu’s
Islam in China
website, November 4, 2007. See
http://islaminchina.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/jonathan-lipman-on-chinese-
muslims/
.
The section on Zheng He is informed by Richard Gunde’s “Zheng He’s
Voyages of Discovery,”
UCLA International Institute, April 20, 2004. See
http://www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=10387
, and Jonathan N.
Lipman’s
Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (Seattle:
University of Washington Press, 1997), 43.
The extract on the influence of Confucianism on Chinese Islam is from
Jonathan N. Lipman’s
Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest
China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997), 72.
Quoting from Feng
Jinyuan,
Cong Zhongguo, 280.
The biographical information on Yusuf Ma Dexin is from the Wikipedia
article of the same name.
The quote about the desire of Islamic scholars to make Islam
“comprehensible, moral and effective” is from Jonathan N. Lipman’s
Familiar
Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1997), 211.
The text of Ibrahim Anwar’s 1995
speech can be seen at