Shifts in Sino-Islamic Discourse
Modelling religious authority through language and travel
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3634587 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristian Petersen (Gustavus Adolphus College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 340-369 |
| Publication date | 2014-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x13000656 |
| OpenAlex | W2128455398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
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 cooperation was negotiated through the means of religious education, which was enabled through travel and language. In this paper, I demonstrate how Ma Dexin modelled the importance of global connections of inter-Asian networks of religious learning by exemplifying the value of Middle Eastern travel and fluency in Arabic. I employ Ma's Chinese and Arabic written works in relation to those of Wang Daiyu 王岱輿 (circa1590-1658) and Liu Zhi 劉智 (circa1670-1724) to illustrate how he differed significantly from previous Sino-Muslim authors with regard to the use of Arabic within the Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition and in his emphatic urgings to perform the hajj pilgrimage. Finally, I briefly show how his divergent position was embraced, as exhibited through the efforts of one of his intellectual inheritors, Ma Lianyuan 馬聯元 (1841-1903
Ancient history · Arabic · China · Ethos · Hajj · Islam · Linguistics · Pilgrimage · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Theology · Education and Islamic Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |