Pan-Asianism's religious undercurrents: the reception of Islam and translation of the Qur'ān in twentieth-century Japan
Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translatio...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Article (Journal) |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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16 September 2014
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The journal of Asian studies
Year: 2014, Jahrgang: 73, Heft: 3, Pages: 619-640 |
| ISSN: | 1752-0401 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0021911814000989 |
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| Online-Zugang: | Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://www.jstor.org/stable/43553338 Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911814000989 
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| Verfasserangaben: | Hans Martin Krämer |
| Zusammenfassung: | Recent scholarship has highlighted the importance of Islam for prewar Japanese pan-Asianists. Yet, by considering Islam solely as a political factor, this strand of scholarship has largely overlooked the religious dimension of Japanese pan-Asianism. The existence of six different complete translations of the Qur˒ān into Japanese, however, amply bespeaks a genuinely religious interest in Islam, an impression that is corroborated by a look at the sociopolitical contexts of the translations and the biographical backgrounds of the translators. While explicitly anti-modern, anti-Western, and anti-Christian notions were at work in these broadly pan-Asianist Japanese appropriations of Islam, an analysis of the terminology used in the translations shows that, ironically, Christian precedents were not easily overcome. |
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| Beschreibung: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1752-0401 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0021911814000989 |