Liu Zhi | |||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 劉智 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 刘智 | ||||||
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Jielian (courtesy name) | |||||||
Chinese | 介廉 | ||||||
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Yizhai (pseudonym) | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 一齋 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 一斋 | ||||||
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Liu Zhi (Xiao'erjing: ﻟِﯿَﻮْ جِ, ca. 1660 – ca. 1739), or Liu Chih, was a Chinese Sunni Hanafi-Maturidi scholar[1][2] of the Qing dynasty,[3] belonging to the Huiru (Muslim) school of Neoconfucian thought.[4] He was the most prominent of the Han Kitab writers who attempted to explain Muslim thought in the Chinese intellectual climate for a Hui Chinese audience, by frequently borrowing terminologies from Buddhism, Taoism and most prominently Neoconfucianism and aligning them with Islamic concepts. He was from the city of Nanjing.[5] His magnum opus, Tianfang Xingli or 'Nature and Principle in the Direction of Heaven', was considered the authoritative exposition of Islamic beliefs and has been republished twenty-five times between 1760 and 1939, and is often referred to by Muslims writing in Chinese.[6]
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