Raphael Israeli has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. At Hebrew University in Jerusalem, he taught courses on the modern Middle East, Islamic history, Islamic radicalism, and on Islamic minorities in Europe and Asia. He is the author of fifty-five books and over 100 scholarly articles on those topics.
"The author took the advantages of his rich knowledge about the
Islamic schism and 'combed' the Chinese Islamic new sects into
systematic categories so that they are easily understood by English
readers. The author also explores some main factors of the Yunnan
Hui Uprising in the nineteenth century and the influence upon the
Hui-Han relationships to today. This study does not stop on the
façade, however; it touches the root part of the Hui faith which
lead to their social interactions among themselves and with the
majority Han. Even many Hui researchers in such area of expertise
have neglected such discussions. I highly appreciate the book."
--Wan Lei, Senior Research Fellow at
King Faisal Center for
Research and Islamic Studies
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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