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Islamic Frontiers of China: Peoples of the Silk Road

Islamic Frontiers of China: Peoples of the Silk Road

Man, Wong How
Dajani, Adel Awni

Hardcover

IslamGeneral Photography

ISBN10: 1848857020
ISBN13: 9781848857025
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
Published: Dec 15 2010
Pages: 168
Weight: 2.91
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.80 Depth: 11.80
Language: English
There are over twenty million Muslims in China today. From the mountainous borders with Afghanistan to the tropical island of Hainan, the ethnicities and cultures of China's Muslims are as diverse as China herself. They come from at least ten different ethnic groups, including the Persianate Tajiks in the Pamir Mountains, Kirgiz eagle hunters in the west, and the Chinese speaking Hui living in Canton. In recent years the world's attention has been drawn to the clashes between Muslim Uighurs and Han Chinese in Xinjiang Province. But how does a Muslim minority in the People's Republic of China live today? After decades of communist rule, and now under the onslaught of commerce and consumerism, what pressures do the different communities and their heritages face? Wong How Man, a renowned Chinese explorer and Adel Awni Dajani, with his Muslim background, come together to explore the regions of the Asian borderlands where the traditions of Islam and China interact. Their collaboration has resulted in this lavishly illustrated book which gives us a glimpse of the rich diversity of life on the Islamic frontiers of China.

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