Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman, <br/><br/>
China's early mosques / 
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. 
 - xxiv, 331 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm. 
 - Edinburg studies in Islamic Art .
 - Edinburg studies in Islamic Art .
<br/><br/> This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780748670413  RM574.75 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mosques--History.--China<br/>Islamic architecture--History.--China<br/>Architecture--Islamic influences.--China