China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 5/11/2017
EAN 9781107670112, ISBN10: 110767011X
Paperback, 472 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm
Language: English
China and Islam examines the intersection of two critical issues of the contemporary world: Islamic revival and an assertive China, questioning the assumption that Islamic law is incompatible with state law. It finds that both Hui and the Party-State invoke, interpret, and make arguments based on Islamic law, a minjian (unofficial) law in China, to pursue their respective visions of 'the good'. Based on fieldwork in Linxia, 'China's Little Mecca', this study follows Hui clerics, youthful translators on the 'New Silk Road', female educators who reform traditional madrasas, and Party cadres as they reconcile Islamic and socialist laws in the course of the everyday. The first study of Islamic law in China and one of the first ethnographic accounts of law in postsocialist China, China and Islam unsettles unidimensional perceptions of extremist Islam and authoritarian China through Hui minjian practices of law.
Introduction
the Party-State enters the mosque
1. History, the Chinese state, and Islamic law
2. Linxia at the crossroads
3. Ritual lawfare
4. Learning the law
5. Wedding laws
6. Moral economies
7. Procedural justice
Conclusion
law, minjian, and the ends of anthropology.