Kristian Petersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857763 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristian Petersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristian |
| FAMILY NAME | Petersen |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSEN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
New Approaches to Islam in Film
Intersectional Islamophobia: The Case of a Black Ahmadi Muslim Celebrity
This essay explores “Islamophobia” through actor Mahershala Ali. I focus on Ali's 2017 awards and their audience reception, especially in Pakistan. Ali frames an analysis of the mediation of Black American Ahmadi Muslim identity within national conditions of anti-Muslim animus, the illegibility of Black Muslimness, and global debates about Muslim “orthodoxy.”
The Treasure of the Heavenly Scripture
This chapter offers an analysis of the Qur’ān as depicted in the works of Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin. Wang’s, Liu’s, and Ma’s works were representative of transitional periods within the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition, and they reveal how the Sino-Muslims’ engagement with the Qur’ān changed over time. Each author translated and used the Qur’ān in a different manner, while simultaneously building on the work of his predecessors. This w…
Epilogue
The epilogue of this book points to its utility in future research. I have established an analytical rubric for thinking through cosmopolitan sites of local formulations of Islam. I provide insights into key junctures within the development of Islam as a global religious and cultural phenomenon, and open up a provisional map for examining how interpretive claims are invested with localized meaning and reimagined through alternative intellectual g…
Arabic Discourse, Linguistic Authority, and Islamic Knowledge
This chapter outlines the use of Arabic by Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin, as well as the guiding principles behind it. I trace the shifting motivations that caused these scholars to employ Arabic and determine why they chose to utilize it in their writings. I argue that the use of Arabic became more prominent over time because Sino-Muslims found themselves in a shrinking world, where the global Muslim population was establishing more contact …
Tradition and the Shaping of Sino-Muslim Intellectuals
Chapter 2 offers a brief examination of the notion of tradition and narrativity in structuring discursive preferences and patterns. The chapter explores the creation and consumption of tradition as an intertextual configuration of interpretive selections because I understand texts as malleable, dynamic, and polyvalent. These queries require an explanation of the interpretive tools employed to delineate the intellectual processes that structured H…
History of the Development of the Sino-Muslim Community
Chapter 1 sketches a brief history of Muslims in China to aid in understanding the development of Sino-Islamic scholarship and the shifting contours of this tradition. The establishment of local religious institutions and a unique body of Chinese literature was predicated by the changing attitudes of foreign and local Muslims in relation to political, economic, and cultural policies. The chapter focuses on the transmission of Islam to China as it…
Sufism and American Literary Masters, written by Mehdi Aminrazavi
Interpreting Islam in China
This book explores the contours of the Han Kitab tradition through discussing the works of some of its brightest luminaries in order to identify and explicate pivotal transitions in Sino-Muslim engagement with the Islamic tradition. A distinctive intellectual tradition emerged during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Sino-Muslims established an educational system known as scripture hall education ( jingtang jiaoyu 經堂教育 ),…
Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab
Interpreting Islam in China explores the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition through the works of some its brightest luminaries. Three prominent Sino-Muslim authors are used to illustrate transformations within this tradition, Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin. Kristian Petersen puts these scholars in dialogue and demonstrates the continuities and departures within this tradition. Through an analysis of their writings, he considers several questi…
Hollywood Muslims in Iraq
This essay explores how Muslims are represented in the two most successful Iraq War films, American Sniper (2014, US) and The Hurt Locker (2008, US), and offers a comparative analysis of the cultural assertions being deployed in their representation. To do this, I provide a close reading of the films' depictions within visual, discursive, and sonic fields of production and show how their representations of Muslims signify specific meanings to the…
Contextualization of Sufi Spirituality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China: The Role of Liu Zhi (c.1662–c.1730)
Within the growing scholarship on Chinese language Islamic literature, generally known as the Han Kitab, the prolific author Liu Zhi (c.1662–c.1730) has garnered the lion’s share of ink. Despite th
The Multiple Meanings of Pilgrimage in Sino-Islamic Thought
Shifts in Sino-Islamic Discourse: Modelling religious authority through language and travel
During the nineteenth century, many Sino-Muslim scholars were seeking a more robust relationship with their Arab co-religionists. The efforts of Ma Dexin 馬德新 (1794-1874) exemplify this shift to strengthen ties with the Muslim community outside China and situate Sino-Islamic scholarship in widespread Islamic discourses. Ma's writings provided Sino-Muslims with discursive and pragmatic tools for engaging a global Muslim community. For Ma, Muslim co…
The Heart of Wang Daiyu’s Philosophy: The Seven Subtleties of Islamic Spiritual Physiology
The True Explanation of the Orthodox Teaching ( Zhengjiao zhenquan 正教真詮), published in 1642 by Wang Daiyu 王岱輿 (ca. 1590–1658), is the oldest extant text in the Han Kitab , a Sino-Islamic canon. This literature employed Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist language and imagery to explain Islamic thought. Wang was a pioneering figure in the institutionalization of this distinct Sino-Islamic discourse and crystallized much of the terminology used through…
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Michael E. Clarke. Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia, 1949-2009: A History. London: Routledge. 2011
Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics and Territory in Islam – By Brannon Wheeler
Usurping the nation: Cyber-leadership in the Uighur nationalist movement1
This paper surveys the increasing support from the Uighur community for the creation of an independent nation, “East Turkistan”, from what is today the Xinjiang province in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the exposure this has received in global news outlets. The PRC's often brutal suppression of Uighur nationalism within China has forced the Uighur diaspora community leaders to more forcefully speak of ethnic Uighur rights and act as t…
Usurping the nation: Cyber-leadership in the Uighur nationalist movement1
This paper surveys the increasing support from the Uighur community for the creation of an independent nation, “East Turkistan”, from what is today the Xinjiang province in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the exposure this has received in global news outlets. The PRC's often brutal suppression of Uighur nationalism within China has forced the Uighur diaspora community leaders to more forcefully speak of ethnic Uighur rights and act as t…
Intersectional Islamophobia: The Case of a Black Ahmadi Muslim Celebrity
This essay explores “Islamophobia” through actor Mahershala Ali. I focus on Ali's 2017 awards and their audience reception, especially in Pakistan. Ali frames an analysis of the mediation of Black American Ahmadi Muslim identity within national conditions of anti-Muslim animus, the illegibility of Black Muslimness, and global debates about Muslim “orthodoxy.”
Shifts in Sino-Islamic Discourse: Modelling religious authority through language and travel
During the nineteenth century, many Sino-Muslim scholars were seeking a more robust relationship with their Arab co-religionists. The efforts of Ma Dexin 馬德新 (1794-1874) exemplify this shift to strengthen ties with the Muslim community outside China and situate Sino-Islamic scholarship in widespread Islamic discourses. Ma's writings provided Sino-Muslims with discursive and pragmatic tools for engaging a global Muslim community. For Ma, Muslim co…
Usurping the nation: Cyber-leadership in the Uighur nationalist movement1
This paper surveys the increasing support from the Uighur community for the creation of an independent nation, “East Turkistan”, from what is today the Xinjiang province in the People's Republic of China (PRC), and the exposure this has received in global news outlets. The PRC's often brutal suppression of Uighur nationalism within China has forced the Uighur diaspora community leaders to more forcefully speak of ethnic Uighur rights and act as t…
Mecca and Eden: Ritual, Relics and Territory in Islam – By Brannon Wheeler
Michael E. Clarke. Xinjiang and China’s Rise in Central Asia, 1949-2009: A History. London: Routledge. 2011
The Heart of Wang Daiyu’s Philosophy: The Seven Subtleties of Islamic Spiritual Physiology
The True Explanation of the Orthodox Teaching ( Zhengjiao zhenquan 正教真詮), published in 1642 by Wang Daiyu 王岱輿 (ca. 1590–1658), is the oldest extant text in the Han Kitab , a Sino-Islamic canon. This literature employed Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist language and imagery to explain Islamic thought. Wang was a pioneering figure in the institutionalization of this distinct Sino-Islamic discourse and crystallized much of the terminology used through…
Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road
Shifts in Sino-Islamic Discourse: Modelling religious authority through language and travel
During the nineteenth century, many Sino-Muslim scholars were seeking a more robust relationship with their Arab co-religionists. The efforts of Ma Dexin 馬德新 (1794-1874) exemplify this shift to strengthen ties with the Muslim community outside China and situate Sino-Islamic scholarship in widespread Islamic discourses. Ma's writings provided Sino-Muslims with discursive and pragmatic tools for engaging a global Muslim community. For Ma, Muslim co…
The Multiple Meanings of Pilgrimage in Sino-Islamic Thought
The Treasure of the Heavenly Scripture
This chapter offers an analysis of the Qur’ān as depicted in the works of Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin. Wang’s, Liu’s, and Ma’s works were representative of transitional periods within the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition, and they reveal how the Sino-Muslims’ engagement with the Qur’ān changed over time. Each author translated and used the Qur’ān in a different manner, while simultaneously building on the work of his predecessors. This w…
Epilogue
The epilogue of this book points to its utility in future research. I have established an analytical rubric for thinking through cosmopolitan sites of local formulations of Islam. I provide insights into key junctures within the development of Islam as a global religious and cultural phenomenon, and open up a provisional map for examining how interpretive claims are invested with localized meaning and reimagined through alternative intellectual g…
Arabic Discourse, Linguistic Authority, and Islamic Knowledge
This chapter outlines the use of Arabic by Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin, as well as the guiding principles behind it. I trace the shifting motivations that caused these scholars to employ Arabic and determine why they chose to utilize it in their writings. I argue that the use of Arabic became more prominent over time because Sino-Muslims found themselves in a shrinking world, where the global Muslim population was establishing more contact …
Tradition and the Shaping of Sino-Muslim Intellectuals
Chapter 2 offers a brief examination of the notion of tradition and narrativity in structuring discursive preferences and patterns. The chapter explores the creation and consumption of tradition as an intertextual configuration of interpretive selections because I understand texts as malleable, dynamic, and polyvalent. These queries require an explanation of the interpretive tools employed to delineate the intellectual processes that structured H…
History of the Development of the Sino-Muslim Community
Chapter 1 sketches a brief history of Muslims in China to aid in understanding the development of Sino-Islamic scholarship and the shifting contours of this tradition. The establishment of local religious institutions and a unique body of Chinese literature was predicated by the changing attitudes of foreign and local Muslims in relation to political, economic, and cultural policies. The chapter focuses on the transmission of Islam to China as it…
Sufism and American Literary Masters, written by Mehdi Aminrazavi
Interpreting Islam in China
This book explores the contours of the Han Kitab tradition through discussing the works of some of its brightest luminaries in order to identify and explicate pivotal transitions in Sino-Muslim engagement with the Islamic tradition. A distinctive intellectual tradition emerged during the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) and Qing dynasty (1644–1911). Sino-Muslims established an educational system known as scripture hall education ( jingtang jiaoyu 經堂教育 ),…
Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab
Interpreting Islam in China explores the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition through the works of some its brightest luminaries. Three prominent Sino-Muslim authors are used to illustrate transformations within this tradition, Wang Daiyu, Liu Zhi, and Ma Dexin. Kristian Petersen puts these scholars in dialogue and demonstrates the continuities and departures within this tradition. Through an analysis of their writings, he considers several questi…
Hollywood Muslims in Iraq
This essay explores how Muslims are represented in the two most successful Iraq War films, American Sniper (2014, US) and The Hurt Locker (2008, US), and offers a comparative analysis of the cultural assertions being deployed in their representation. To do this, I provide a close reading of the films' depictions within visual, discursive, and sonic fields of production and show how their representations of Muslims signify specific meanings to the…
Contextualization of Sufi Spirituality in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century China: The Role of Liu Zhi (c.1662–c.1730)
Within the growing scholarship on Chinese language Islamic literature, generally known as the Han Kitab, the prolific author Liu Zhi (c.1662–c.1730) has garnered the lion’s share of ink. Despite th
Intersectional Islamophobia: The Case of a Black Ahmadi Muslim Celebrity
This essay explores “Islamophobia” through actor Mahershala Ali. I focus on Ali's 2017 awards and their audience reception, especially in Pakistan. Ali frames an analysis of the mediation of Black American Ahmadi Muslim identity within national conditions of anti-Muslim animus, the illegibility of Black Muslimness, and global debates about Muslim “orthodoxy.”
New Approaches to Islam in Film
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