Very generous review of Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab from Tristan G. Brown in Review of Religion and Chinese Society. Tristan G. Brown of Massachusetts Institute of Technology works on the social and cultural history of late imperial China and is working on a book titled The Prophets of Beijing: Islam and the State Cult in Late Imperial China.

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Kristian Petersen’s new book, Interpreting Islam in China, is a masterful study of Sinophone Muslims in late imperial China. …It will no doubt join the groundbreaking volumes of Zvi Ben-Dor, Jonathan Lipman, Ma Tong, Wang Jianping, and many others in bringing to light voices from an important historical corner of the Islamic world.

Very honored to be named along side these wonderful scholars.