Gorgias Press

Gorgias Press - Chinese heirs to muhammad: writing islamic history in early modern china, hardcover/j. lilu chen

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How was the past imagined by Hui Muslims in late nineteenth and early twentieth century China? Chen argues that this was a productive time for historical thought, bookended by the establishment of a robust Sino-Islamic knowledge base by Liu Zhi on one end and Republican China on the other end.

This book explores histories that unify vast stretches of time and place: from genesis to the modern era, from Arabia to China.

Hui historians create narratives that transform China into an Islamic spac.