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ONE GIANT LEAP IN THE STUDY OF THE CHINESE CRESCENT: A SUPERB ANNOTATED TRANSLATION OF LIU ZHI'S NATURE AND PRINCIPLE IN ISLAM

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2011

Tatsuya Nakanishi
Tatsuya Nakanishi
Affiliation:
Kyoto University. E-mail nakanishi.tatsu@gmail.com
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Islamic writings by Chinese Muslim scholars first attracted the attention of European researchers in the nineteenth century. Intermittently since then, the Islamic thought in these writings, expressed in the terminology and phrases of Chinese traditional thought, has been studied not only by European and American researchers but also Chinese and Japanese ones. The focus of such studies has generally been on elucidating the substantial influence of Chinese traditional thought on the Islamic thought of Chinese Muslim scholars, or on the relationship between Islam and Chinese traditional thought in Chinese Islamic writings, investigated either out of a historiographical concern for how Islam became established in China, or else from a philosophical concern to investigate an example of the “dialogue of civilizations”.

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Islam in ChinaChinese MuslimsLiu Zhi
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Review Articles
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International Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2011 , pp. 63 - 71
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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6 The reference format “Xingli 4.5” means Xingli, Diagrams and Explanations, vol. 4, fifth diagram and explanation. The same format is followed below in all references to the Diagrams and Explanations in Xingli.

7 The Sage Learning, p. 445, n. 7.

8 The Sage Learning, pp. 51–59. Murata and Chittick suppose that Liu most likely had ʿaql in mind rather than nafs.

9 Mirṣād, pp. 37–40, 46–47, 56.

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15 The Root Suchness, or the “originally being so”, designates that which is what each of all beings is originally. It occasionally means the nature of each being, however, it ultimately and frequently designates God Himself or His Substance, because all beings are the manifestations of God. This is the case here. See also The Sage Learning, p. 184, n. 3.

16 Maqṣad, p. 270.

17 Xingli, Root Classic, chap. 2.

18 Actually, Maqṣad also appears to admit the possibility for everyone to reach the First Intellect, that is, the Muhammadan spirit. See Maqṣad, p. 258 and The Sage Learning, p. 410, n. 2. However, Nasafī does not treat the reason why humans of diverse ranks can reach one and the same spirit. So we may say that Liu understood Mirṣād and Maqṣad consistently through the medium of Neo-Confucian thought.

19 The Sage Learning, pp. 75–76.

20 The Sage Learning, p. 347, n. 4.

21 Maqṣad, pp. 255–56.

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