The Dao of Muhammad. A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China

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x Contents 3 The Han Kitab Authors and the Chinese Islamic School 115 The Rise of the Chinese Islamic School 119 / Providing Acc ...

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xii Tables, Figures, and Illustrations 6 The imperial seal on the second page of the Zhisheng shilu 7 A page from Liu Zhi’s Tian ...

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2 Introduction Apart from the familiar argument (often found in contemporary complaints by “patriotic” citizens, who question th ...

Introduction 3 As Charles Hartman has shown in his discussion of this anec- dote, Chen An’s position on the questions raised by ...

4 Introduction sheng, after passing the examinations and proving his competency in a body of knowledge supposedly “foreign” to h ...