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Podcast: New Books in East Asian Studies
Episode: Kristian Petersen, āInterpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han Kitabā (Oxford UP, 2017)
Description: In his monumental new book,Ā Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Language, and Scripture in the Han KitabĀ (Oxford University Press, 2017), Kristian Petersen takes his readers on an unforgettable journey through the layers and complexities of Sino-Muslim intellectual and social history. On the way readers meet the major scholars and texts that played a formative role in the development of the Han Kitab tradition, and revel in navigating the terms and stakes of their discourses and debates on critical questions of pilgrimage, scriptural interpretation, and the sanctity of the Arabic language. In addition to constituting a field turning contribution to th...