Table of contents : Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of illustrations List of Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Introduction: Hui Communities from the Ming to the Qing 1. The Mosque and Scripture-Hall Education 2. Succession in the Yunnan School (Yunnan xuepai) of Islamic Thought 3. Spiritual Genealogies of Gansu: Chains of Transmission in the Jahrı - ya and Khafı - ya Turuq 4. Representations of Sufi Genealogy and Their Socio-Cultural Interaction in Modern Northwest China 5. Social Conflicts between New Teaching and Old Teaching Sufi Orders among the Salar (Xunhua Sub-prefecture, Gansu Province) in the 18th Century 6. Hui Lineages in Taozhou and the Acculturation of Islam during the Qing Dynasty 7. Ming–Qing Huihui Genealogies and Changing Communal Memory: A Study of Qingzhou (Shandong) Huihui Jiapu 8. A Hui Muslim Lineage in Southwest China: A Case Study of the Xiaba Ma Genealogy 9. Genealogy Compilation and Identity Formation: Southeast China Communities of Muslim Descent Glossary Index