China's early mosques /

This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Colección:Edinburgh studies in Islamic art.
Temas:
Mosques > China > History.
Islamic architecture > China > History.
Architecture > China > Islamic influences.
Architecture islamique > Chine > Histoire.
Architecture > Chine > Influence islamique.
ARCHITECTURE / General
Architecture and Planning.
Architecture > Islamic influences
Islamic architecture
Mosques
China
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Muslims, Mosques and Chinese Architecture
  • Muslims and Other West Asians in China before the Tenth Century
  • The Buddhist Model
  • The Chinese Model
  • Architectural Requirements of Muslim Worship
  • Mosque, Masjid, Monastery, Temple
  • Scholarly and Other Writing about Mosques in China
  • ch. 2 China's Oldest Mosques
  • Quanzhou's International Community
  • Shengyousi
  • Guangzhou's International Community
  • Huaishengsi
  • ch. 3 China's Other Early Mosques
  • Yangzhou
  • Hangzhou
  • Other Pre-fifteenth-century Mosques
  • ch. 4 Mongols, Mosques and Mausoleums
  • Saidianchi
  • Muslim Tombs in Yuan China
  • Yuan Observatories
  • ch. 5 Xi'an and Nanjing: Great Mosques and Great Ming Patrons
  • Huajuexiangsi, the Great Mosque in Xi'an
  • Jingjuesi in Nanjing
  • Two Famous Ming Muslims Buried in Nanjing
  • ch. 6 Ox Street Mosque and Muslim Worship in or near Beijing
  • Beijing Dongsi Mosque
  • Mosques in Tongzhou
  • Note continued: Mosques in Dachang Hui Autonomous County
  • ch. 7 China's Most Important Yuan and Ming Mosques: Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Shanxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang
  • Jining To Tianjin
  • Hebei West of the Grand Canal
  • Shanxi
  • Henan
  • Anhui
  • Jiangsu and Zhejiang beyond the Four Earliest Mosques
  • ch. 8 Mosques and Qubbas in Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai
  • Ningxia
  • Gansu
  • Mosques near Xining
  • ch. 9 Xinjiang: Architecture of Qing China and Uyghur Central Asia
  • Xinjiang Islamic Architecture in Context: the Qing Architectural Enterprise
  • ch. 10 Mosque, Synagogue, Church: Architecture of Monotheism in China
  • Kaifeng Synagogue
  • Church Architecture
  • ch. 11 Conclusion: the Chinese Mosque in the Twenty-first Century.

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