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Localization of Islam in China
- Chief Editor
LIN Chang-kuan (Department of History, National Cheng Kung University)
- Publisher
Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK
- Agent
The CUHK Press
- Sponsor
Islamic Cultural Association (Hong Kong)
- Date
March 2015
- ISBN
978-962-813-301-7
- Language
Chinese & English
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About this BookAbout the Editor
ContentsPrefaceEditor's Introduction
Lin, Chang-kuan
Was trained as Islamicist in Jordanian, Canadian, and British universities. He was visiting scholar to SOASUniversity of London and Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies-Universitas Indonesia to research Islam in South-east Asia. He has been teaching Islamic sciences at National Cheng-chi University and other academicinstitutes for more than two decades. In 2003, in order to promote Islamic studies, he founded Centre for the Studies of Islamic Civilization and Thought (CSICT) at Cheng-chi University, which lasted for several years. Dr. Lin was one of the founding members of Taiwan Association of Islamic Studies (TAIS), and served as the first chairman of TAIS since its inauguration in 2009 till 2013. He wrote several articles on Chinese Islam for Leiden-Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam(new editon). He has authored numerous articles and reviews on Islamic history and culture, and edited several books on Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. He also serves as editor andadvisor to several academic journals.