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SCHOOL: ADVISORS: COMMITTEE MEMBERS: MPACT Status: Fully Complete Title: The "dao of Muhammad": Scholarship, education, and Chinese Muslim literati identity in late imperial China Abstract: This dissertation is concerned with the Chinese Muslim literati elite of the early modern period. Through examination of the literatures put forth by this elite over the course of a century and a half (roughly 1600-1750) it demonstrates that the Chinese Muslim scholarly community was far-flung, well organized, and prolific. Most centrally, the study argues that the Chinese Muslim scholarly community of this period viewed itself specifically as consisting of "literati," as that term was understood and deployed by dominant (i.e., Confucian) culture. Through study of the literatures of this elite--literatures that collectively are termed the "Han Kitab," or "Chinese Books"--the dissertation thus puts forth two central claims. The first is that the Chinese Muslim scholarly community grew out of a systematized network of education, one that was spread throughout eastern China. The second is that the Chinese Muslim literati with which the study is concerned made use of--and expanded--the categories of dominant Chinese culture to make sense of themselves and their mission vis-a-vis that culture. |
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