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China and Islam

The Prophet, the Party, and Law

Bibliographic Data

ID19920724
AuthorsMatthew S Erie (0000-0002-0422-3338, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueChina and Islam (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/9781107282063
OpenAlexW4244473247
Open LibraryOL34561874M
ISBN9781107282063
LanguageEN
Citations received36

China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the assumption that Islamic law is incompatible with state law. It finds that both Hui and the Party-State invoke, interpret, and make arguments based on Islamic law, a minjian (unofficial) law in China, to pursue their respective visions of 'the good'. Based on fieldwork in Linxia, 'China's Little Mecca', this study follows Hui clerics, youthful translators on the 'New Silk Road', female educators who reform traditional madrasas, and Party cadres as they reconcile Islamic and socialist laws in the course of the everyday. The first study of Islamic law in China and one of the first ethnographic accounts of law in postsocialist China, China and Islam unsettles unidimensional perceptions of extremist Islam and authoritarian China through Hui minjian practices of law

Authoritarianism · China · Democracy · Islam · Political science · Politics · Sharia · Sociology · State (computer science) · Theology · Vision · Asian Studies and History · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Islamic law

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