Eurasian Studies Balkans, Anatolia, Iran, Caucasus and Central Asia Studies Notebooks

Series | Eurasian Studies
Edited book | Armenia, Caucasus, and Central Asia
Chapter | ʿAlidi in marcia lungo la via per la Cina

ʿAlidi in marcia lungo la via per la Cina

Le prime comunità islamiche cinesi riflesse in una leggenda del medioevo persiano

Abstract

The emergence of the first Islamic communities in China is still an elusive phenomenon. Primary sources are scanty, and mostly focus on Tang-Abbasid maritime trade. Thus, while the first days of Islam in south-eastern China are now quite well documented, much less is known about the arrival of Islam in the north-west. A twelfth-century Persian source, Sharaf al-Zamān Ṭāhir Marwazī’s Ṭabāʾiʿ al-ḥayawān, reports a legend concerning the settlement of a group of ʿAlid Muslim merchants somewhere in Tang China. An analysis of this anecdote could shed some light on the matter, providing new data on the very first Islamic communities of north-western China.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: March 13, 2019 | Accepted: April 15, 2019 | Published Oct. 17, 2019 | Language: it

Keywords ʿAlid diaspora • Medieval Islamic geography • Islam in Tang China • Sino-Persian relations

Copyright © 2019 Francesco Calzolaio. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

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