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UID:274@harvard-yenching.org
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220126T160000
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URL:https://www.harvard-yenching.org/events/chinese-speaking-muslims-respo
 nses-to-islamic-intellectual-trends-from-west-south-and-central-asia-durin
 g-the-nineteenth-century/
SUMMARY:Chinese-Speaking Muslims’ Responses to Islamic Intellectual Trend
 s from West\, South and Central Asia during the Nineteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored with the Asia Center\, the Fairbank Center for Chi
 nese Studies\, the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies\, and The P
 rince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program\n\nHeld via Zoom - regist
 ration required\n\nThis presentation will discuss the intellectual history
  of Chinese-speaking Muslims who were historically called “Hui\,” the 
 Chinese term which meant “Muslim” generally. People whom I indicate by
  the term “Hui” here are not only Muslims who daily spoke in Chinese b
 ut also those who could use Chinese along with their mother languages to h
 ave contacts with other Chinese-speakers including Muslims.\n\nI have stud
 ied how the Huis adapted Islam to China in order to survive there. More sp
 ecifically speaking\, my research question is how the Huis negotiated thei
 r religious belief\, practice\, and identity with their various “others
 ” in response to various historical situations. The “others” include
 d not only non-Muslim Chinese people such as the Chinese majority called 
 “Han\,” but also Muslims whom the Huis regarded as different from them
 selves in any point. For now\, I am particularly working on how Hui schola
 rs during the nineteenth century adjusted Islam to Chinese milieus\, and h
 ow they in this process responded to new Islamic intellectual trends impor
 ted from West\, South and Central Asia. The “new trends” included vind
 ication of Ibn ʿArabī (d.1240) and re-evaluation of Ibn Taymiyya (d.1328
 ).\n\nIn this presentation\, I would like to focus on the following two Hu
 i scholars in the nineteenth century. One is Ma Dexin (d.1874) who almost 
 lived in Yunnan province\, the Southwest China\, except that he traveled i
 n the Middle East and other regions from 1842 to 1849. This travel inspire
 d him with critical views against a part of discourses and practices of Su
 fism\, or Islamic mysticism. The other is Yūsuf (d.1866) who lived in Gan
 su province\, the Northwest China. He was affiliated with a Sufi order (br
 otherhood of Muslim mystics/ ṭarīqa in Arabic) inheriting a branch of a
  spiritual lineage (silsila in Arabic)\, that is\, a lineage of succession
 s from a master to a disciple. In other words\, through his affiliation wi
 th the Sufi order (called Beizhuang)\, Yusuf linked to this spiritual line
 age called Mujaddidiyya which originated from South Asia and developed in 
 Central Asia. I would introduce some results and prospects in my study of 
 the two Hui scholars around the above-mentioned research question\, that i
 s\, how they responded to new Islamic intellectual trends from West\, Sout
 h and Central Asia in the context of adaptation of Islam to China. Thereby
 \, I am going to provide a new perspective for the study of the intellectu
 al history of the Hui.
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