TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinhardt,Nancy Shatzman
TI  - China's early mosques
T2  - Edinburg studies in Islamic Art
SN  - 9780748670413
PY  - 2015///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Mosques
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Islamic architecture
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Islamic influences
N1  - 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
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