Muslim Sanzijing

Roberta Tontini, Ph.D. (2013), is a research fellow at the Cluster Asia and Europe of the University of Heidelberg. Her publications on the history of Islam in China include Islamic Law in China (OISO, Oxford University Press 2014).

• AcknowledgmentsChapter 1. IntroductionMotivation and RelevanceLiterature ReviewRoadmapConceptual DefinitionsChapter 2. Tianfang Dianli: Norms and Rites of Islamic Law in Imperial ChinaIntroduction: Legal Traditions in Cultural ConvergenceHanafi Regionalism and the Chinese “Sunna”Rethinking JurisprudenceThe Chinese ShariaConfucian Frameworks of Islamic JurisprudenceConclusion: Islamic Law in Cultural TranslationChapter 3. Tianfang Sanzijing: A Regional(ist) Theory on Islamic LawIntroduction: Liu Zhi and Yuan Guozuo’s Joint Intellectual EnterpriseComing of Age in Chinese Islamic Literacy Wugong: From Religious Pillars to Social BricksRite and Law in the “Great Learning” of IslamTraditions as Cradles of Transitions: Establishing Regionalism in Chinese Islamic LawConclusion: The “Filiative Transmission” of Islam in ChinaChapter 4. Islamic Law in the Aftermath of the Anti-Qing RebellionsIntroduction: Novel Texts for Rebellious ContextsBeginning, Unfolding and Indigenizing the TransmissionRethinking Orthodoxy“Ways” of Islam in a Changing SocietyNew Perspectives on Social OrderConclusion: The Legacy of Two PrimersChapter 5. Rethinking Liu Zhi’s Legacy in Postimperial ChinaIntroduction: Islam in TransitionStrengthening the Chinese Nation: Hu Songshan’s Three Character Primer of IslamChina’s “Muslim Brothers”: A Regional Trajectory Red Star over Muslims: Hu Xueliang’s Sanzijing for Girls“Love Your Country, Love Your Religion”: Na Guochang’s Sequel to the Tianfang Sanzijing Chapter 6. Islam’s Filiative Transmission to ModernityConclusion: The Great Learning of Islam in ChinaWorks Cited

"Historian Roberta Tontini brilliantly engages the problem of continuity and shifts head on in her Muslim Sanzijing...One is struck by the rich history of this text that Tontini exposes as she writes the biography of the book, looking at many lives it took on during the past 200 years."Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University, Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review, No. 23 (June 2017)"[A] brilliant account on the history of China's acquaintance with Islam and its jurisprudence. This highly informative and insightful monograph addresses a largely neglected theme in the field of Chinese Muslim studies."Tommaso Previato, Academia Sinica, Bulletin de l’École française d’Extrême-Orient, 102 (2016)