명‧청 시대 유학을 통한 이슬람교의 중국화에 대한 연구 -문화변용을 중심으로-

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the phenomenon of Islamic Sinification through the development process of Islam in China, which is centered on cultural change. By analyzing and studying the influence of Islam on the development of Islam in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it can be found out the root answers to the many problems that exist in Islam after the cultural change, avoid religious extremism and radical Islamic fundamentalism, and explore the path to the development of Islam in China. Islam was first introduced into China by Muslim merchants in the Tang and Song dynasties. Islam began to develop at a slow pace in China and settled in China about seven or eight hundred years later. After a long period of spread, development and change, the Chinese Islamic belief system with national and regional characteristics was formed. This is the economic and cultural exchange between China and the Arabs a long-standing bond between flow and traditional friendship. Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties were the main periods of the spread of Islam in China. Muslim scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties described the Islamic classics from a Confucian perspective. They interpreted Islam's teachings as the Confucian media and left behind a large number of Chinese-style Islamic writings, which ended the missionary work of Chinese Muslims over the past thousand years. Since then, Chinese have been able to learn the doctrines and laws directly through the Chinese translation classics, explain Islam through Confucianism, helping spread Islam, opening the way for the development of Islamic teaching culture in China at that time and contribute to the academic and cultural exchange between China and the Arab world. The Confucian-style missionary method makes Islam widely popular and acceptable in China, accelerating the pace of Islam’s Sinicization. The process of Islam's Sinicization is also a process of cultural change. Cultural transformation often takes three forms: acceptance, adaptation, and resistance. Islam has also entered China, and after these three stages, over a long period of time, it has become a Chinese-style Islam. Both the formation of ethnic minorities with Islamic faith and the existence of 回儒 Group has had a good effect on the steady development and cultural transformation of Chinese Islam. The impact of Chinese nationalism and Confucian exclusiveness on foreign religions and cultures should also be noted.