David Lee is Associate Professor of Theology at Evangel Seminary in Hong Kong. He has served as Senior Pastor in the Chinese Church of London.

This is a brilliant study of the contextualization of Arabic and Persian Sufi Muslim writing for a Chinese audience by one of the most influential Chinese Muslim writers, Liu Zhi (c1662-c1730). David Lee has shown clearly how Liu Zhi translated key Sufi works using Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucianist concepts to encourage the reception of Islam as a fourth recognized tradition alongside the other three.

• List of Figures and TablesForeword by Peter G. RiddellAcknowledgments1 Methodological Introduction2 The Historical, Philosophical, and Islamic Context in China3 An Examination of Liu Zhi's Writings4 Liu Zhi's Engagement with the Concept of the Unity of Existence of the Ibn 'Arabi Tradition5 Liu Zhi's Sufi Spirituality in Conversation with the Neo-Confucian Context in China6 Liu Zhi's Engagement with Islam and Neo-Confucian Culture in His Rules and Proprieties of Islam: An English Translation and Detailed Examination7 Model of Contextualization, Contemporary Relevance and Final ConclusionAppendix I: The Poem of the Five Sessions of the Moon in EnglishAppendix II: Translation of Selected Texts of the True Record of the Utmost Sage of IslamAppendix III: Personal Narrative of Tianfan Dianli: (Selected Essential Explanations of the Proprieties of Islam)Appendix IV: The Rules and Proprieties of IslamBibliographyIndex

David Lee is Associate Professor of Theology at Evangel Seminary in Hong Kong. He has served as Senior Pastor in the Chinese Church of London.

This is a brilliant study of the contextualization of Arabic and Persian Sufi Muslim writing for a Chinese audience by one of the most influential Chinese Muslim writers, Liu Zhi (c1662-c1730). David Lee has shown clearly how Liu Zhi translated key Sufi works using Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucianist concepts to encourage the reception of Islam as a fourth recognized tradition alongside the other three.

• List of Figures and TablesForeword by Peter G. RiddellAcknowledgments1 Methodological Introduction2 The Historical, Philosophical, and Islamic Context in China3 An Examination of Liu Zhi's Writings4 Liu Zhi's Engagement with the Concept of the Unity of Existence of the Ibn 'Arabi Tradition5 Liu Zhi's Sufi Spirituality in Conversation with the Neo-Confucian Context in China6 Liu Zhi's Engagement with Islam and Neo-Confucian Culture in His Rules and Proprieties of Islam: An English Translation and Detailed Examination7 Model of Contextualization, Contemporary Relevance and Final ConclusionAppendix I: The Poem of the Five Sessions of the Moon in EnglishAppendix II: Translation of Selected Texts of the True Record of the Utmost Sage of IslamAppendix III: Personal Narrative of Tianfan Dianli: (Selected Essential Explanations of the Proprieties of Islam)Appendix IV: The Rules and Proprieties of IslamBibliographyIndex

David Lee is Associate Professor of Theology at Evangel Seminary in Hong Kong. He has served as Senior Pastor in the Chinese Church of London.

This is a brilliant study of the contextualization of Arabic and Persian Sufi Muslim writing for a Chinese audience by one of the most influential Chinese Muslim writers, Liu Zhi (c1662-c1730). David Lee has shown clearly how Liu Zhi translated key Sufi works using Buddhist, Daoist, and Confucianist concepts to encourage the reception of Islam as a fourth recognized tradition alongside the other three.

• List of Figures and TablesForeword by Peter G. RiddellAcknowledgments1 Methodological Introduction2 The Historical, Philosophical, and Islamic Context in China3 An Examination of Liu Zhi's Writings4 Liu Zhi's Engagement with the Concept of the Unity of Existence of the Ibn 'Arabi Tradition5 Liu Zhi's Sufi Spirituality in Conversation with the Neo-Confucian Context in China6 Liu Zhi's Engagement with Islam and Neo-Confucian Culture in His Rules and Proprieties of Islam: An English Translation and Detailed Examination7 Model of Contextualization, Contemporary Relevance and Final ConclusionAppendix I: The Poem of the Five Sessions of the Moon in EnglishAppendix II: Translation of Selected Texts of the True Record of the Utmost Sage of IslamAppendix III: Personal Narrative of Tianfan Dianli: (Selected Essential Explanations of the Proprieties of Islam)Appendix IV: The Rules and Proprieties of IslamBibliographyIndex