China's early mosques
Title:
China's early mosques
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
Author:
Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, author.
ISBN:
9781474437219
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Edition:
[Paperback edition].
Physical Description:
xxiv, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm.
Series:
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art
Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
Contents:
Muslims, Mosques and Chinese Architecture -- China's Oldest Mosques -- China's Other Early Mosques -- Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums -- Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons -- Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing -- China's Most Important Yuan and Ming Mosques: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang -- Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai -- Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia -- Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China -- Conclusion: the Chinese Mosque in the Twenty-first Century.
Abstract:
This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda.
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Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
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