Islam in China: Religion, Ethnicity, Culture, and Politics

Both timely and important, the multifaceted essays-— collection of over twenty years of Raphael Israelis scholarship on Chinese Muslims—offer detailed insight into the relationship between Chinas non-Muslim majority and an increasingly self-confident guest culture. The work uncovers a history of uneasy ethnic, philosophical, and ideological coexistence, the gradual sinification of the Chinese Muslim creed, and the increasing accommodation of Islam by a modern, westernizing China. In addition, it highlights a religious group riddled with sectarianism; factional rifts that reveal the doctrinal, social, and political diversity at the core of Chinese Islam.