| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 331 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans |
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Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art |
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Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Muslims, Mosques and Chinese Architecture -- Muslims and Other West Asians in China before the Tenth Century -- The Buddhist Model -- The Chinese Model -- Architectural Requirements of Muslim Worship -- Mosque, Masjid, Monastery, Temple -- Scholarly and Other Writing about Mosques in China -- ch. 2 China's Oldest Mosques -- Quanzhou's International Community -- Shengyousi -- Guangzhou's International Community -- Huaishengsi -- ch. 3 China's Other Early Mosques -- Yangzhou -- Hangzhou -- Other Pre-fifteenth-century Mosques -- ch. 4 Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums -- Saidianchi -- Muslim Tombs in Yuan China -- Yuan Observatories -- ch. 5 Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons -- Huajuexiangsi, the Great Mosque in Xi'an -- Jingjuesi in Nanjing -- Two Famous Ming Muslims Buried in Nanjing -- ch. 6 Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing -- Beijing Dongsi Mosque -- Mosques in Tongzhou |
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Note continued: Mosques in Dachang Hui Autonomous County -- ch. 7 China's Most Important Yuan and Ming Mosques: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang -- Jining To Tianjin -- Hebei West of the Grand Canal -- Shanxi -- Henan -- Anhui -- Jiangsu and Zhejiang beyond the Four Earliest Mosques -- ch. 8 Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai -- Ningxia -- Gansu -- Mosques near Xining -- ch. 9 Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia -- Xinjiang Islamic Architecture in Context: the Qing Architectural Enterprise -- ch. 10 Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China -- Kaifeng Synagogue -- Church Architecture -- ch. 11 Conclusion: the Chinese Mosque in the Twenty-first Century |
| Summary |
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. This book explains that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam. It includes case studies of China's most important surviving mosques (including 30 premodern mosques, the tourist mosques in Xi'an and Beijing, and the Uygur mosques in Kashgar). It aims to build an understanding of the mosque at the most fundamental level, asking what is really necessary for Muslim worship space. It presents Chinese architecture as uniquely uniform in appearance and uniquely adaptable to something as foreign as Islam |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mosques -- China -- History
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Islamic architecture -- China -- History
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Architecture -- China -- Islamic influences
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ARCHITECTURE / General
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Architecture and Planning.
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Architecture -- Islamic influences
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Islamic architecture
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Mosques
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Architecture and Planning.
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China
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015510122 |
| ISBN |
9781474472852 |
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1474472850 |
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