Liu Zhi (c.1662c.1730), a wellknown Muslim scholar in China, published in Chinese outstanding theological works, short treatises, and easytomemorize short poems on Islam. He encountered various challenges in his interpretation and transmission of Islamic texts. First, traditional Arabic and Persian Islamic texts used Arabic and Persian concepts to explain Islam. This book answers the question, did Liu Zhi communicate difficult Islamic concepts? Second, Islam has insisted on monotheism. This book discusses whether and how Liu Zhi integrated the basic religious living of the Hui Muslims into their pluralistic Chinese culture. Finally, Muslims have settled over hundreds of years in various parts of China. Were Liu Zhis works able to make a substantial difference in the life and thought of Hui Muslims in China? Liu Zhis success was due to his method of contextualization, integrating the Muslim way of life into Chinese culture. This book is an indepth study of Liu Zhis contextualization of Islam into Chinese culture that argues that his contextualization has not deviated from the basic tenets of Islamic belief. ""Scholars have previously focused on the innovative nature of Islamic contextualization in seventeenth and eighteenthcentury China. Lees work goes further, firstly, by focusing on (1) a significant Muslim from the network of scholars in this period, Liu Zhi (2) his uniquely indigenized use of the Akbarian tradition both for teaching and apologetics secondly, by...

Binding: Hardcover;308 pages; Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers; Classification: N/A; Weight: 702.41 g; Dimensions: N/A

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