Liu Zhi (scholar)

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Chinese names
Ancestral name (姓):	劉 (Pinyin: Liú)
Given name (名):	智 (Pinyin: Zhì)
Courtesy name (字):	介廉 (Pinyin: Jièlián)
Pseudonym (號):	一齋 (Pinyin: Yìzhāi)

Liu Zhi (ca. 1660 - ca. 1739) was a Chinese Muslim scholar of the Qing period from Nanjing.

Islam in China

History of Islam in China

History Tang Dynasty Song Dynasty Yuan Dynasty Ming Dynasty Qing Dynasty 1911-Present

Major figures

Lan Yu • Yeheidie'erding Hui Liangyu • Ma Bufang Zheng He • Liu Zhi Haji Noor • Yusuf Ma Dexin

Culture

Cuisine • Sini • Martial arts Islamic Association of China

Architecture

Chinese mosques • Niujie Mosque

Islamic Cities/Regions

Linxia • Xinjiang Ningxia • Kashgar

Ethnic Groups

Hui • Uygur • Kazakhs Dongxiang • Kyrgyz • Salar Tajiks • Bonan • Uzbeks Tatars • Utsul • Tibetans

Impact

Dungan revolt • Panthay Rebellion This box: view • talk • edit

Contents 1 Biography 2 Works 3 See also 4 References

[edit] Biography

In his childhood, he received instruction from his father, Liu Sanjie (劉三杰). At the age of 12, he studied scriptures with Yuan Ruqi (袁汝契) at the Garden of Military Studies Mosque in Nanjing, (which no longer exists). At the age of 15, he began a career of study in his home. For fifteen years, he read up on Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, as well as "Western Studies"; there as nothing he did not read. He considered Confucius and Mencius to be "Sages of the East" and Muhammad to be a "Sage of the West," and that "the teachings of the Sages of East and West, today as in ancient times, are one." He further believed that the scriptures of Islam are also "generally similar to the intentions of Confucius and Mencius." From around the age of 30, he took up residence at the foot of Qingliangshan in Nanjing, where he began to interpret and expound on the Islamic scriptures, using Confucian studies, for a period of about twenty years. During this time, he twice brought his manuscript with him to visit and solicit advice and the opinions of both Muslims and non-Muslims, leaving his tracks throughout Jiangsu, Shandong, Hebei, Henan, Anhui, Zhejiang, Guangdong, and other places. In his later years, he resided at his studio, Saoyelou ("House of Sweeping Leaves"), at Qingliangshan in Nanjing.

[edit] Works

• 天方性理 (Tianfang Xingli, The Metaphysics of Islam)
• 天方典禮 (Tianfang Dianli, The Rites of Islam)
• 天方至聖實綠 (Tianfang Zhisheng Shilu, The Real Record of the Last Prophet of Islam)
• Dozens of others

[edit] See also

• Yusuf Ma Dexin, a later Islamic scholar who also tried to reconcile Islam and Confucian philosophy.

[edit] References

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