Liu Zhi (scholar)

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liu.
Liu Zhi
Tomb of Liu Zhi in Yuhuatai District, Nanjing
Traditional Chinese劉智
Simplified Chinese刘智
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinLiú Zhì
Jielian
(courtesy name)
Chinese介廉
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinJièlián
Yizhai
(pseudonym)
Traditional Chinese一齋
Simplified Chinese一斋
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYìzhāi
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Liu Zhi (Xiao'erjing: ﻟِﯿَﻮْ جِ, ca. 1660 – ca. 1739), or Liu Chih, was a Chinese Sunni Hanafi-Maturidi scholar[1][2] of the Qing dynasty,[3] belonging to the Huiru (Muslim) school of Neoconfucian thought.[4] He was the most prominent of the Han Kitab writers who attempted to explain Muslim thought in the Chinese intellectual climate for a Hui Chinese audience, by frequently borrowing terminologies from Buddhism, Taoism and most prominently Neoconfucianism and aligning them with Islamic concepts. He was from the city of Nanjing.[5] His magnum opus, Tianfang Xingli or 'Nature and Principle in the Direction of Heaven', was considered the authoritative exposition of Islamic beliefs and has been republished twenty-five times between 1760 and 1939, and is often referred to by Muslims writing in Chinese.[6]

  1. ^ "الماتريدية وآثارها في الفكر الإنساني بدول طريق الحرير.. الصين نموذجًا" (in Arabic). Alfaisal Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023.
  2. ^ "الحنفية الماتريدية في بلاد الصين". midad.com (in Arabic). 4 January 2020. Archived from the original on 3 May 2023.
  3. ^ Hagras, Hamada (2019-12-20). "The Ming Court as Patron of the Chinese Islamic Architecture: The Case Study of the Daxuexi Mosque in Xi'an". SHEDET (6): 134–158. doi:10.36816/shedet.006.08.
  4. ^ Friendship in Confucian Islam, Sachiko Murata
  5. ^ See generally: William Chittick with Sachiko Murata and Tu Weiming, The Sage Learning of Liu Zhi: Islamic Thought in Confucian Terms (Harvard University 2009).
  6. ^ Murata, Sachiko (2004). "The Unity of Being in Liu Chih's "Islamic Neoconfucianism"". Journal of the Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society. 36 (4). Oxford – via The Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi Society.