Islam's Loneliest Cosmopolitan: Badr Al-Din Hai Weiliang, the Lucknow–Cairo Connection, and the Circumscription of Islamic Transnationalism

Badr al-Din Hai Weiliang (1912–?), a Chinese Muslim from rural Hunan, led a deeply transnational life. Hai was the only Chinese Muslim known to have studied in both India and Egypt in the modern period, spending considerable time at both the Nadwat al-‘Ulama in Lucknow and al-Azhar in Cairo. After C...

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Main Author: John Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pluto Journals 2018-03-01
Series:ReOrient
Online Access:https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.13169/reorient.3.2.0120