Pan-Asianism's Religious Undercurrents
The Reception of Islam and Translation of the Qur'ān in Twentieth-Century Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3636153 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans Martin Krämer (0000-0002-4679-9714, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 619-640 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911814000989 |
| OpenAlex | W2039777251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 16 |
Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translations of the Qur'ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the sociopolitical contexts of the translations and the biographical backgrounds of the translators. While explicitly anti-modern, anti-Western, and anti-Christian notions were at work in these broadly pan-Asianist Japanese appropriations of Islam, an analysis of the terminology used in the translations shows that, ironically, Christian precedents were not easily overcome
Art · Islam · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Terminology · Theology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |