ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses interviews with Yihewani and Salafi imams as well as brief descriptions of their mosques provide an overview of different settings for Islamic education and various perspectives on theology, the state of Chinese Islam, and the Chinese nation and its non-Muslim constituents. Imams and lay believers alike strive to define a role for Chinese Muslims as modern minorities in the post-socialist Chinese nation but also aspire to be full-fledged members of the global Islamic ummah. The chapter discusses the Tabligh Jamaat lacks imams exclusively dedicated to the movement, includes multiple sects, and its adherents avoid many of the issues. The chapter describes influential, professional imams who play major roles in shaping networks of students and educators and theological discourse. It not only provides an overview of Yihewani and Salafi clerical stances, it also traces the transition in ethnographic stance from the outside to the inside of Chinese Islam.
