Chinese gleams of sufi light
Subtitle: Wang Tai-yü's great learning of the pure and real and Liu Chih's Displaying the concealment of the real realm ; with a new translation of Jāmī's Lawāʾiḥ from the Persian by William C. Chittick
By: Sachiko Murata ; with a foreword by Tu Weiming
Contributors: Chittick, William C; Jāmī, 1414-1492.; Wang, Daiyu.; Liu, Chih, ca. 1662-1730.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Wang, Daiyu; Liu, Chih, -- ca. 1662-1730; Sufism -- Doctrine; Islam -- China
Description: "Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light investigates the manner in which the Muslim scholars of China adapted the Chinese tradition to their own needs during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book surveys the 1400-year history of Islam in China and explores why the four books translated from Islamic languages into Chinese before the twentieth century were all Persian Sufi texts. The author also looks carefully at the two most important Muslim authors of books in the Chinese language, Wang Tai-yu and Liu Chih. Murata shows how they assimilated Confucian social teachings and Neo-Confucian metaphysics, as well as Buddhism and Taoism, into Islamic thought."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-246) and indexes