{"product_id":"the-dao-of-muhammad-zvi-ben-dor-benite-9780674017740","title":"The DAO of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book documents an Islamic-Confucian school of scholarship that flourished, mostly in the Yangzi Delta, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously unstudied materials, it reconstructs the network of Muslim scholars responsible for the creation and circulation of a large corpus of Chinese Islamic written material--the so-called Han Kitab. Against the backdrop of the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty, \u003ci\u003eThe Dao of Muhammad\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the creation of this corpus, and of the scholarly network that supported it, arose in a context of intense dialogue between Muslim scholars, their Confucian social context, and China's imperial rulers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOverturning the idea that participation in Confucian culture necessitated the obliteration of all other identities, this book offers insight into the world of a group of scholars who felt that their study of the Islamic classics constituted a rightful \"school\" within the Confucian intellectual landscape. These men were not the first Muslims to master the Chinese Classics. But they were the first to express themselves specifically as Chinese Muslims and to generate foundation myths that made sense of their place both within Islam and within Chinese culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Zvi Ben-Dor Benite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674017749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674017740\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.48w x 1.03d","brand":"Zvi Ben-Dor Benite","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054243344639,"sku":"9780674017740","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f79543d6-958c-417f-bf9a-ab772d18d13d.jpg?v=1685028840","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-dao-of-muhammad-zvi-ben-dor-benite-9780674017740","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}