{"id":992,"date":"2014-10-07T20:45:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=992"},"modified":"2014-10-07T20:48:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T20:48:38","slug":"a-recital-of-the-holy-quran-and-zansheng-praise-in-oxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=992","title":{"rendered":"A Recital of the Holy Quran and zansheng (praise) in Oxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Ye Chenghui Ahong<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u00a02 pm on Thursday 23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0October.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street, Oxford OX1 2AR<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:cis@soas.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\">cis@soas.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Ye Chenghui studied the art of Qur\u2019anic recitation in the Great West Mosque of Lintan county in China\u2019s northwestern Gansu province. He continued his studies formally at the Islamic Institute in Lanzhou, and in 2003 took up the position of Ahong of the Xidaotang school in Lanzhou. He has won several prizes in national competitions in Quranic recitation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Xidaotang school of Islam was founded in Gansu in the early 20th Century: a small but highly organised community, which grew out of the major Chinese Sufi orders, but laid new emphasis on education and accommodation with Chinese culture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Ye Chenghui will recite from the Quran, and also demonstrate the uniquely Chinese Muslim art of \u2018zansheng\u2019, recited Arabic-language praise for God and the Prophet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Dr Rachel Harris (leader of the research project \u2018Sounding Islam in China\u2019) will contextualise the recitation with a few general remarks on Islamic worship in northwest China, and show images and videos taken during a field trip in 2013.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">We are grateful to the AHRC for supporting the visit of Ye Chenghui.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ye Chenghui Ahong \u00a02 pm on Thursday 23rd\u00a0October.\u00a0 Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, George Street, Oxford OX1 2AR cis@soas.ac.uk Ye Chenghui studied the art of Qur\u2019anic recitation in the Great West Mosque of Lintan county in China\u2019s northwestern Gansu province&#8230;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/?p=992\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[142,15,143,70,181,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundislamchina.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}