China and Islam: The Prophet, the Party, and Law
Erie, Matthew S. China and Islam : the Prophet, the party, and law. Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 2016. XVII-447 p. (Coll. “Cambridge studies in law and society”). ISBN : 978-1-10-705337-3
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.
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Voir aussi
- Ian Johnson. Shariah with Chinese characteristics : a scholar looks at the muslim Hui. Sinosphere. The New York Times, 6 September 2016. URL : http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/world/asia/china-islam-matthew-erie-shariah.html (consulté le 7 septembre 2016)
- Matthew S. Erie (with Allen Carlson). Introduction to “Islam in China/China in Islam”. Cross-Currents E-Journal, 2014, n° 12. URL : https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-12/erie-and-carlson (consulté le 7 septembre 2016)
- Matthew S. Erie. Defining shariʿa in China : state, ahong, and the postsecular turn. Cross-Currents E-Journal, 2014, n° 12. URL : https://cross-currents.berkeley.edu/e-journal/issue-12/erie (consulté le 7 septembre 2016)
- Max Oidtmann. Chinese Muslims & Shari’a : a review of The Prophet and the party : shari’a and sectarianism in China’s little Mecca, by Matthew Erie. Dissertation Reviews. URL : http://dissertationreviews.org/archives/10289 (consulté le 7 septembre 2016) [Compte rendu de la thèse de doctorat de Matthew S. Erie, soutenue à l’université Cornell en 2013].
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