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China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law

China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law

Name: China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781107670112
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Author: Matthew S. Erie
ISBN: 9781107670112

By Matthew S. Erie

Cambridge University Press May 2017

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ISBN-13: 9781107670112
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: May 2017
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the assumption that Islamic law is incompatible with state law. It finds that both Hui and the Party-State invoke, interpret, and make arguments based on Islamic law, a minjian (unofficial) law in China, to pursue their respective visions of 'the good'.

Based on fieldwork in Linxia, 'China's Little Mecca', this study follows Hui clerics, youthful translators on the 'New Silk Road', female educators who reform traditional madrasas, and Party cadres as they reconcile Islamic and socialist laws in the course of the everyday. The first study of Islamic law in China and one of the first ethnographic accounts of law in postsocialist China, China and Islam unsettles unidimensional perceptions of extremist Islam and authoritarian China through Hui minjian practices of law.

Introduction: the Party-State enters the mosque

1. History, the Chinese state, and Islamic law

2. Linxia at the crossroads

3. Ritual lawfare

4. Learning the law

5. Wedding laws

6. Moral economies

7. Procedural justice

Conclusion: law, minjian, and the ends of anthropology.

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