China's early mosques - Steinhardt, Nancy Shatzman (United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press, 2015)
This book explains how the worship requirements of the mosque and the Chinese architectural system converged. What happens when a monotheistic, aniconic, foreign religion needs a space in which to worship in China, a civilisation with a building tradition that has been largely unchanged for several millennia? The story of this extraordinary convergence begins in the 7th century and continues under the Chinese rule
Keywords: Mosques -- China -- History; Islamic architecture -- China -- History; Architecture -- China -- Islamic influences