New Era Imams Practical Handbook

Author: Chen Guangyuan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This is a tool-based book specifically written for Imams. Its main content covers fundamental Islamic teachings, knowledge of daily religious affairs, general knowledge, and relevant policy and regulatory documents. Compiling such a book holds significant practical importance for contemporary Chinese Muslims. The history of Islam in China spans over 1,300 years, with the population of Chinese Muslims reaching over 20 million. Currently, China has nearly 40,000 mosques and over 50,000 Imams engaged in Islamic affairs. They play a vital role in spreading Islamic knowledge, promoting Islamic culture, overseeing Islamic affairs, and uniting the Muslim community. At present, how to cultivate Islamic clergy who are knowledgeable in both religion and law, policy, and can properly guide the broader Muslim community has become a topic of practical significance. He hopes that Imams across the country, while studying and mastering Islamic knowledge and performing their religious duties, will also learn practical politics, government policies on religion, and modern scientific and cultural knowledge, keeping pace with the times.
The book systematically introduces the history of Islam and the Islamic affairs knowledge that incumbent Imams, students of Islamic seminaries, and mosque Hafiz need to master, as well as the doctrines and regulations they should adhere to. It serves as both a manual for the daily work of incumbent Imams in mosques across the country and a valuable textbook for students of Islamic seminaries and mosque Hafiz. It is also a reference for officials engaged in Islamic work.
This book was organized and compiled by the China Islamic Association, with Grand Imam Chen Guangyuan, a Standing Committee member of the National Day of the Islamic Association of China and the President of the China Islamic Association, serving as the chief editor. The content includes China's current religious policies, relevant laws and regulations on religious affairs, and the guidelines of the three generations of the Party's leadership collective on ethnic and religious work. The book also systematically introduces the history of Islam and the Islamic affairs knowledge that incumbent Imams, students of Islamic seminaries, and mosque Hafiz need to master, as well as the doctrines and regulations they should adhere to. It serves as both a manual for the daily work of incumbent Imams in mosques across the country and a valuable textbook for students of Islamic seminaries and mosque Hafiz. It is also a reference for officials engaged in Islamic work.