Cultivating Charismatic Power Islamic Leadership Practice in China
Islam and China are topics of relevance and contention in today’s economic, political and religious climate. In this work, Tiffany Cone makes an important contribution to these contemporary discourses through an ethnographic case study of Islamic leadersh
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CULTIVATING CHARISMATIC POWER Islamic Leadership Practice in China
Cultivating Charismatic Power
Tiffany Cone
Cultivating Charismatic Power Islamic Leadership Practice in China
Tiffany Cone Asian University for Women Chittagong, Bangladesh
ISBN 978-3-319-74762-0 ISBN 978-3-319-74763-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74763-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018934695 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Tiffany Cone Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
PREFACE
At the age of 12, I lived in Indonesia for one year. Being immersed in a culture outside of my own instilled in me a deep curiosity about how human beings imbued the world with meaning and understood their place within it. Years later, I came to realise just how deep an impression this experience left on me. In particular, I was struck by the interplay of Buddhist and Islamic practice in daily life. During my undergraduate degree in anthropology, I first visited China and over the subsequent years became involved in a number of film projects there. After completing a study of Sufism at the end of my first degree, I directed a film project titled Living Chinese Philosophy. This film explored the central tenets of Confucianism and Daoism in the context of daily life in China. These collective experiences inspired me to undertake a deeper study of Sufism in China from the perspective of philosophical anthropology. Specifically, I was interested in the processes that fostered the emergence and flourishing of esoteric Islam in China. To borrow here from the French philosopher Gill
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