This well-illustrated book is a most welcome addition to art and architectural history studies, especially in the fields of Islamic and Chinese art. I know this because I have had the opportunity to use the volume on several occasions. In one case, as I was preparing for a trip to Xinjiang, I found the book indispensable not only for my preparation to visit this area of Central Asian China but also for the accurate information it provided. 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...
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September 01 2017
Review: China's Early Mosques, by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt
China's Early Mosques
Edinburgh
: Edinburgh University Press
, 2015
, 368 pp., 8 maps, 140 color and 60 b/w illus. $160/£95, ISBN 9780748670413
Catherine B. Asher
Catherine B. Asher
University of Minnesota
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2017) 76 (3): 385–386.
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Catherine B. Asher; Review: China's Early Mosques, by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2017; 76 (3): 385–386. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2017.76.3.385
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