Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light

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 Lawā'iḥ from the Persian by William C. Chittick

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

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Beskrivning

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 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-yü and Liu Chih. Murata shows how they assimilated Confucian social teachings and Neo-Confucian metaphysics, as well as Buddhism and Taoism, into Islamic thought. She presents full translations of Wang's Great Learning of the Pure and Real—a text on the principles of Islam—and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm, which in turn is a translation from Persian of Lawā'iḥ, a famous Sufi text by Jāmī. A new translation of Jāmī's Lawā'iḥ from the Persian by William C. Chittick is juxtaposed with Liu Chih's work, revealing the latter's techniques in adapting the text to the Chinese language and Chinese thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-08-03
Mått:228 x 152 x 22 mm
Vikt:363 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:278
Förlag:State University of New York Press
Medarbetare:Tu Wei-ming
ISBN:9780791446386

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Islam inom Filosofi och religion

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Sachiko Murata is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and author of The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought, also published by SUNY Press.

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"The collaborators were indeed ambitious in this work, obviously enthusiastic about the topic they had discovered and the opportunity to introduce it to the public." — Religious Studies Review "This is a remarkable book, painstakingly set in its historical and intellectual context. There is a brilliance reflected in both the introduction and the translation. We are indebted to Sachiko Murata for her fine work!" — Mary Evelyn Tucker, author of Moral and Spiritual Cultivation in Japanese Neo-Confucianism: The Life and Thought of Kaibara Ekken (1630–1714)"Murata's book goes a long way toward filling a huge gap in our knowledge of Islam in China." — Alan Godlas, cotranslator of Javad Nurbakhsh's Divani Nurbakhsh: Sufi Poetry"This work is highly original, shows an astonishing range of linguistic and philosophical competencies, and brings to life an extremely interesting and little-known Muslim intellectual tradition." — Juan R. I. Cole, translator of Kahlil Gibran's The Vision: Reflections on the Way of the Soul

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Chinese-Language Islam The Essentials of IslamThe Chinese LanguageWang Tai-yuLiu ChihThe Arabic Translation of Liu Chih's PhilosophyTranslations into ChineseThe Neo-Confucian Background 2. The Works of Wang Tai-yu The True AnswersThe Real Commentary on the True TeachingAdam and Eve: From Chapter Two of the Real CommentaryThe Real Solicitude 3. Wang Tai-yu's Great Learning The Chinese BackgroundThe Islamic ConceptsThe Text 4. The Great Learning of the Pure and Real PrefaceIntroductionSynopsis: Comprehensive StatementThe Real OneThe Numerical OneThe Embodied OneGeneral Discussion 5. Liu Chih's Translation of Lawa'ih The Oneness of ExistenceLiu Chih's Appropriation of Lawa'ihThe Translations 6. Gleams 7. Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm NotesGlossary of Chinese WordsBibliographyIndex of Chinese Names and TermsIndex of Persian and Arabic Names and TermsGeneral Index