Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt is Professor of East Asian Art and Curator of Chinese Art at the University of Pennsylvania.
China's Early Mosques is a highly original account of global
architectural history. It offers an innovative transregional
perspective and deserves to be seen as a milestone to bridge the
convergence of not only Chinese and Islamic architectural
traditions but also their respective disciplines.--Yuka Kadoi
"Abstracta Iranica"
The first monograph by a single author on this topic, Nancy
Steinhardt's China's Early Mosques spearheads an exploration of a
new field of studies that is just beginning to take
shape...Steinhardt's identification and delineation of Chinese
(early) mosques as an Islamic subgenre of architecture in China is
groundbreaking.'--Wei-Cheng Lin "Harvard Journal of Asiatic
Studies"
This well-illustrated book is a most welcome addition to art and
architectural history studies, especially in the fields of Islamic
and Chinese art... Before the publication of China's Early Mosques,
I had visited important early Muslim sites in southeast and
north-central China, but until I read Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt's
text, I had great difficulty sorting fact from fiction about the
monuments I saw. There is absolutely no other book in English or
any European language that covers China's mosques. Further, in
addition to being unique, it is lucidly written, shedding light on
a topic that might otherwise seem bewildering to the non-Islamic,
non-China specialist. This volume will remain the standard work on
Chinese mosques well into the future.'--CATHERINE B. ASHER,
University of Minnesota "Journal of the Society of Architectural
Historians"
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