Aaron Nathan Glasserman
Biographic Data
| ID | 2425754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron Nathan Glasserman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Glasserman |
| SIGNATURE | GLASSERMAN A N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Postdoctoral Research Associate, Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University Princeton, NJ USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8345-4088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Bid‘a and evolving conceptions of the shari‘a in Qing and Republican China
In this article I revise the conventional account of the contestation over Islamic reform in late Qing and Republican China. I argue that previous scholarship has overlooked important similarities between so-called “reformists” or “Yihewani” and “traditionalists” or “Gedimu.” Based on an analysis of several texts and their exposition of the concept of bid‘a , I show that scholars associated with opposite sides of this divide in the early twentiet…
Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou
This article adapts methods from the study of late imperial Chinese society to understand Hui families’ pursuit of Islamic cultural capital in Qing Guangzhou. It outlines three processes that crystallized by the middle of the nineteenth century: the integration of Guangzhou’s mosques into regional and long-distance commercial networks; the institutionalization of Islamic education at the city’s mosques; and the rationalization of mosque managemen…
The Sound of Salvation
This book is an ethnography of recitation among the Jahriyya Sufi order in northwestern China.It is based on several rounds of fieldwork by the author, anthropologist Guangtian Ha, in the 2010s at and around the Hong Le Fu madrassa.Like the community on which it focuses, the book is centred on collective vocalisation of two Sufi texts: the supplicatory Mukhammas, or 'cinquain ' , of Tabādkānī (d.1486), based on al-Būṣīrī's (d.1294) Qaṣīda al-Burd…
Islam in China By James Frankel
On the Huihui Question
In Western discourse today the charge that Islam is “not just a religion” but a comprehensive social system is leveled to cast doubt over Muslims' ability to integrate into a political community. In the People's Republic of China, this understanding of Islam has served the opposite purpose. From the perspective of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), religion cannot be the basis for legitimate political identity. Islam, however, is not just a relig…
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On the Huihui Question
In Western discourse today the charge that Islam is “not just a religion” but a comprehensive social system is leveled to cast doubt over Muslims' ability to integrate into a political community. In the People's Republic of China, this understanding of Islam has served the opposite purpose. From the perspective of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), religion cannot be the basis for legitimate political identity. Islam, however, is not just a relig…
Islam in China By James Frankel
Bid‘a and evolving conceptions of the shari‘a in Qing and Republican China
In this article I revise the conventional account of the contestation over Islamic reform in late Qing and Republican China. I argue that previous scholarship has overlooked important similarities between so-called “reformists” or “Yihewani” and “traditionalists” or “Gedimu.” Based on an analysis of several texts and their exposition of the concept of bid‘a , I show that scholars associated with opposite sides of this divide in the early twentiet…
Hui Corporate Strategies and Islamic Cultural Capital and in Qing Guangzhou
This article adapts methods from the study of late imperial Chinese society to understand Hui families’ pursuit of Islamic cultural capital in Qing Guangzhou. It outlines three processes that crystallized by the middle of the nineteenth century: the integration of Guangzhou’s mosques into regional and long-distance commercial networks; the institutionalization of Islamic education at the city’s mosques; and the rationalization of mosque managemen…
The Sound of Salvation
This book is an ethnography of recitation among the Jahriyya Sufi order in northwestern China.It is based on several rounds of fieldwork by the author, anthropologist Guangtian Ha, in the 2010s at and around the Hong Le Fu madrassa.Like the community on which it focuses, the book is centred on collective vocalisation of two Sufi texts: the supplicatory Mukhammas, or 'cinquain ' , of Tabādkānī (d.1486), based on al-Būṣīrī's (d.1294) Qaṣīda al-Burd…
Asian Studies and History (5 works) · China (5 works) · Islam (5 works) · China's Ethnic Minorities and Relations (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Theology (3 works)