Islam in Traditional China

As is evident from a glance at Part III of this book, we already have a number of bibliographies on Islam in China and, to be frank, it was not immediately obvious to me that we needed another. Yet this work might best be regarded not as an attempt at a more complete or exhaustive bibliography (indeed, it makes no claim to be such), but as a handbook for the study of Islam in China, a book to be dipped into by anyone wishing to gain an overview of the field and the possibilities for further research. It is divided into five parts: introduction, primary sources, secondary sources, topics and, finally, secondary works by author. The introduction provides a very brief history of Islam in China, an introduction to primary and secondary sources and to the major library holdings in the West, Japan and China. Part II looks at primary

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