Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm creed while in Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh)

while in Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh)

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Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm creed while in Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh)The first study in English of Islamic thought in China, this book shows that this tradition was informed by both Sufism and Neo Confucianism; translations of two classic works are included. Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light investigates, for the first time in a Western language, 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