Publication Date
1797
Subject
Islam
Type
Other
Language
ara,zho
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Harvard Library
Library Asset ID
LCCN: 2014514256
Record ID
TN_cdi_loca_primary_2014514256
Library Location
ONLINE ACCESS
Date
1797
Notes
Collection of essays about Muslim beliefs and rites, appearing in both Chinese and Arabic, translated and compiled by Muslim scholar Ma Boliang ca. 1678. This manuscript work in two volumes was translated and edited by Ma Boliang (1640-1711), an influential Islamic scholar from Jining, Shandong Province. It deals with the basics of Islam and instructs readers on how to identify unorthodox ideas and deeds. To accommodate some readers, Ma also provided Arabic letters for a few of the most important expressions and terms as well as Chinese characters. The work became very popular in the Muslim community, which constituted a large minority population in China. It has a preface and a postscript, but the postscript, written by Ma Boliang, is incomplete. The inscription provides the names of other Islamic students and scholars who participated in authenticating the work, including Li Yongshou, Wen Yingshi, Yang Jiu'en, Ma Minggao, and Ma Zhilin. The date of this manuscript copy is the second year of the Jiaqing reig
Kaynak
Library of Congress Digital Collections: All Content
Başlık
Jiao kuan jie yao : yi juan
