This book documents an Islamic-Confucian school of scholarship that
flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it
reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the
creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic
written material--the so-called Han Kitab. Against the backdrop of
the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty, The Dao of Muhammad shows how
the creation of this corpus, and of the scholarly network that
supported it, arose in a context of intense dialogue between Muslim
scholars, their Confucian social context, and China's imperial
rulers.
Overturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture
necessitated the obliteration of all other identities, this book
offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that
their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful "school"
within the Confucian intellectual landscape. These men were not the
first Muslims to master the Chinese Classics. But they were the
first to express themselves specifically as Chinese Muslims and to
generate foundation myths that made sense of their place both
within Islam and within Chinese culture.
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