Li G (2022)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2022
Book Volume: 50
Pages Range: 185-232
Issue: 2
Journal Issue: 2
The major Muslim group in China, the Hui, discussed the issue of haircut for Muslim women in their own newspapers and magazines in the 1930s. Authors of those publica- tions include ordinary male and female Hui Muslims, Islamic clerics, and Muslim stu- dents from the new Islamic educational institutions. Based on various sources of Islamic jurisprudence (Sharia), the participants put forward varying opinions on the issue. In this article, I have investigated the debate on the Hui women's haircut by assessing how the debate started and developed, and what it meant for a Hui Muslim woman to cut or not to cut her hair in relation to the Shari a in the sociopolitical context of Republican China. I argue that different narratives tried to construct a proper Muslim woman, and furthermore, I also assess how Muslims in China during the Republican period defined their own identities of being Chinese and Muslim via debating on the "authentic" inter- pretation of the Shari' a Finally, Ipoint out that liberation of Chinese Muslim women is impossible unless there is comprehensive participation of them in the debate.
APA:
Li, G. (2022). Reasoning The Sharīʿa and Constructing a Proper Muslim Woman: Reflections on the Issue of Chinese Muslim Women's Haircut in Republican China. Journal of Chinese Religions, 50(2), 185-232. https://doi.org/10.1353/jcr.2022.0010
MLA:
Li, Gang. "Reasoning The Sharīʿa and Constructing a Proper Muslim Woman: Reflections on the Issue of Chinese Muslim Women's Haircut in Republican China." Journal of Chinese Religions 50.2 (2022): 185-232.
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