Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light: Wang Tai-Yu's Great Learning of the Pure and Real and Liu Chih's Displaying the Concealment of the Real Realm (Book Review‪)‬

By SACHIKO MURATA. With a new translation of Jami's Lawa'ih from the Persian by William C. Chittick. Albany: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK PRESS, 2000. Pp. xiv + 264. The past two decades have seen a stow, but steady, growth of studies dedicated to Islam in premodern China by scholars in the West. Most of these works have focused largely on the political and social history of Muslim communities in China, especially, following the late Joseph Fletcher's pioneering work, on Muslim rebellions under the Ch'ing empire. Recent scholarship, however, has taken a significant turn by venturing into new areas of intellectual history and theological-philosophical inquiry. With the publication of Sachiko Murata's Chinese Gleams of Sufi Light, at the beginning of the new millennium, the field has entered a new era.