TY - BOOK ID - 3494639 TI - China's early mosques PY - 2018 VL - *5 SN - 9780748670413 0748670416 9781474437219 1474437214 1474472850 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mosques KW - Architecture, Chinese. KW - Mosques. KW - China. KW - China KW - Islamic architecture KW - Architecture KW - 726.2 KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Arab architecture KW - Architecture, Arab KW - Architecture, Islamic KW - Architecture, Moorish KW - Architecture, Muslim KW - Architecture, Saracenic KW - Moorish architecture KW - Muslim architecture KW - Saracenic architecture KW - Religious architecture KW - Architecture, Asian KW - Religious institutions KW - 726.2 Moskeeen. Minaretten KW - Moskeeen. Minaretten KW - History KW - Islamic influences KW - Design and construction KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - History. KW - Islamic influences. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3494639 AB - 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 millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule of Song and Ming, and the non Chinese rule of the Mongols and Manchus, each with a different political and religious agenda. This book explains that mosques, and ultimately Islam, have survived in China because the Chinese architectural system, though unchanging, is adaptable: it can accommodate the religious requirements of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Islam. It includes case studies of China's most important surviving mosques (including 30 premodern mosques, the tourist mosques in Xi'an and Beijing, and the Uygur mosques in Kashgar). It aims to build an understanding of the mosque at the most fundamental level, asking what is really necessary for Muslim worship space. It presents Chinese architecture as uniquely uniform in appearance and uniquely adaptable to something as foreign as Islam. ER -