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Books on Islam in China

28 May 2010 2 Comments

By: Wang Daiyu

Here is a list of some books related to Islam in China and or Muslims in China. Please feel free to suggest books if something is not in this list.

  1. Atwill, David G., The Chinese sultanate: Islam, ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in southwest China, 1856-1873 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005)
  2. Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi,  The dao of Muhammad : a cultural history of Muslims in late imperial China (Cambridge: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center ; dist. by Harvard University Press, 2005)
  3. Dillon, Michael, China’s Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement and sects ( Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 1999)
  4. Gladney, Dru C., Muslim Chinese: ethnic nationalism in the People’s Republic (Cambridge: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University: dist. by Harvard University Press, 2nd ed. 1996)
  5. Israeli, Raphael, with the assistance of Lyn Gorman, Islam in China: a critical bibliography (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1994)
  6. Israeli, Raphael, The cross battles the crescent: one century of missionary work among Chinese Muslims (1850-1950), Modern Asian Studies 29, no. 1 (1995), 203-221.
  7. Jaschok, Maria, and Shui Jingjun, The history of women’s mosques in Chinese Islam: a mosque of their own (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon, 2000)
  8. The Legacy of Islam in China : an international symposium in memory of Joseph F. Fletcher, Harvard University, 14-16 April 1989 / sponsored by the John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies & the Andrew D. [sic] Mellon Foundation.
  9. Leslie, Donald, The integration of religious minorities in China: the case of Chinese Muslims (Canberra: Australian National University, 1998)
  10. Leslie, Donald, Islamic literature in Chinese, late Ming and early Ching: books, authors, and associates (Belconnen: Canberra College of Advanced Education, 1981)
  11. Lipman, Jonathan, Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997)
  12. Wang, Jianping, Concord and conflict : the Hui communities of Yunnan society in a historical perspective (Stockholm : Almqvist & Wiksell, 1996)
  13. Wang, Jianping, Glossary of Chinese Islamic terms (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press on behalf of Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2001)
  14. Xinjiang : China’s Muslim borderland, ed by  S. Frederick Starr ( Armonk: M.E. Sharpe, 2004 )

2 Comments »

  • Islam in China Webzine is back! « Islam in China said:

    [...] else. In any case, the webzine is back after more than a year. I have added some resources about books about Islam in China and a article about Islam in China from Razib Khan. Razib makes a really interesting observation [...]

  • Wasil ibn Ata said:

    I wrote a paper on the Muslim rebellion in Gansu back in college. Some of the books that I found helpful, besides those that you’ve listed:

    Broomhall, Marshall. Islam in China. New York: Paragon Book Reprint Corp., 1966.

    Kim, Hodong. Holy War in China: The Muslim Rebellion and State in Chinese Central Asia, 1864 – 1877. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004.

    Chu, Wen-Djang. The Moslem Rebellion in Northwest China, 1862 – 1878. The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1966.

    Israeli, Raphael. Muslims in China. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press, 1980.

    Israeli, Raphael. Islam in China. New York: Lexington Books, 2002.

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