Price | RM150.00 |
Product SKU | 9789670526577 |
Brand | Islamic Book Trust |
Size (L x W x H) | 30 cm x 28 cm x 5 cm |
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Islam In China: History, Spread and Culture – A Pictorial Book - Hard cover with Gold and Silver stamping and Jacket
P.K Koya (Compiled and editor)
ISBN: 9789670526577
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust (IBT), Malaysia
Year: 2019
Pages: 204 full-color pages
Weight: 2000 grams
This book, through its rich and abundant collection of fourteen centuries of pictorial illustrations, takes us on a journey of discovery through history, culture, architecture and an overall look at the historical ancestry of Muslims in China. It also draws attention to the spread of Muslim settlements across the landscape of China.
The themes also bring us nearer home to Malaysia and an overall look at Islam’s historical contact with the Malay archipelago where a variety of religious faiths have harboured in our midst for centuries, interacting and assimilating each other’s socio-cultural practices and heritage. The spread and adaptation of Islamic cultural civilisation across China through fourteen centuries of peaceful co-existence we can in many ways find affinity with China’s historical experience.
It is our hope that this book will open the readers’ eyes and minds yet a little more on people and land beyond our borders, especially of Islam In China.
This is a pictorial treasure trove of over thirteen centuries of Islam’s place in China. it reveals that Islam not merely coexisted within Chinese society but harmoniously blended into it, then emerged with Chinese characteristics to thrive within the land.
China is only a notional nation state. It is a civilisation state. It rests upon Chinese civilisational values and not any theocratic tenets. The state and the Islamic faith however seems not to face contradiction in their integral existence.
This harmony is projected through the architectural adaptation of Islamic houses of worship and monumental buildings as well as the socio-cultural practices and way of life. The innovative inclusion of women as imams into its congregation reflects acceptance of the Chinese society’s espousal of gender equality. Historically Chinese Muslims also patriotically partook in the promotion and defence of the Chinese state. The role of Admiral Zheng He and the all Muslim military corp, the Kansu Braves, in seeking dynastic glory and defending their contemporary dynasties are examples of Chinese Muslim’s allegiance to China’s dynastic rulers.
Glimpsing through the book, the old Confucian adage “Hearing something a hundred times isn’t better than seeing it once” (百聞不如一見, băi wén bù rú yī jiàn) come to mind. It could not be more transparently true than the graphic presentation in this book of the harmonious integration of Islam into the Chinese society that Haji P. K. Koya has so painstakingly compiled.