China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law by Matthew S. Erie (review)

Islamic law, sharia, has not been central to studies of Islam in China—indeed, it often receives no mention at all, despite its import for scholars of other parts of the Muslim world and its undoubted importance to Muslims everywhere. The substantive chapters of China and Islam focus on areas of pot...

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Published in:Twentieth-century China 2017-05, Vol.42 (2), p.E-18-E-20
Main Author: Lipman, Jonathan N
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Community living
Conflict resolution
Customary law
Ethics
Ethnography
Habits
Islam
Islamic law
Muslims
Religion
Society
Sovereignty
Uyghur people
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Summary:Islamic law, sharia, has not been central to studies of Islam in China—indeed, it often receives no mention at all, despite its import for scholars of other parts of the Muslim world and its undoubted importance to Muslims everywhere. The substantive chapters of China and Islam focus on areas of potential contradiction and disorder, narrating both structural, institutional histories and personal tales of community life and conflict resolution. Chapter 1 presents an abbreviated history of Muslims and Islamic law in China, from the Tang to the present, focusing on modern governments’ efforts to domesticate Islamic law as “customary law” (习惯法 xiguanfa) in the late Qing and Republic and then as “ethnic habits and customs” (民族风俗习惯 minzu fengsu xiguan) since the 1950s.
ISSN:1521-5385
1940-5065
1940-5065
DOI:10.1353/tcc.2017.0012