History of the Soul
A Chinese Writer, Nietzsche, and Tiananmen 1989
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2108518 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Henning (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 473-501 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417509000206 |
| OpenAlex | W2128686146 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 10 |
In December of 1984, Zhang Chengzhi, a thirty-six-year-old ethnologist from Beijing and an important novelist in contemporary Chinese literature, reached a small village on the loess plateaus of northwestern China. An impoverished farmer, Ma Zhiwen, hosted Zhang during his brief stay and introduced him to the local community of Muslims who practiced Sufism, a form of mystical Islam. Night after night, the Muslim villagers sought Zhang out to tell him about events in the history of their Sufi order, the Zheherenye. Zhang learned that Zheherenye Sufis carefully cultivated historical memories reaching back to the mid-eighteenth century when the order was founded by a Chinese Sufi returned from Yemen. Since then, the order had been led by amurshid, the Arabic word for mentor or spiritual guide. During the last dynasty of the Chinese empire, which fell in 1911, the Zheherenye were often outlawed and clashed repeatedly with the imperial army in regional wars that the Sufis always lost. Interpreting their defeats as martyrdom, the Zheherenye narrated the lives of the successivemurshidin their transmission of oral histories, but also in handwritten histories that were often written in Persian or Arabic
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · Cartography · China · Empire · Fell · Geography · History of China · Islam · Kingdom · Literature · Mysticism · Order (exchange) · Soul · Sufism · Theology · Zhàng · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Islamic Studies and History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |