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Leila Cherif-Chebbi

Affiliation

Independent Researcher (Paris)

Biography

Studying Chinese and Arabic languages, Leila Cherif-Chebbi accomplished a study year at Wuhan University (PRC) in 1984–85. In 1989, she graduated in International Relations at Paris Sciences-Po, before a Master of Contemporary Arab World Analysis, two years later in the same institution. Since 1990, she has been making regular fieldworks in the most different regions of China, for research on Muslim reformism, modern day Ikhwani and Salafi trends, the Tablighi movement, Chinese Muslim scholarship, the Chinese Islamic cyberspace, Arabic language and calligraphy in China. Aside from her public officer work, her research on Islam in China has comprised participation in a number of national and international conferences — e.g., on the Chinese Muslims’ cyberspace at the conference Dynamics of Contemporary Islam and Economic Development in Asia (New Delhi 2007); on the Salafi and Tablighi movements in China, at the conference Islam in China: Historical Bases and Modern Constellations (Vienna 2009); and since 2011 at the Annual Conferences of the Asia American Studies Society (AAS), notably in Göttingen (2022) and Tokyo (2023), with papers addressing the Tablighi Jama‘at expansion and literature in China.

Publications Related to the RedGold Programme:

Leila Cherif-Chebbi, ‘Traditional versus Modernized Ikhwan in Globalized China’, in Ma Haiyun, Chai Shaojin, Ngeow Chow Bing, eds., Zhenghe Forum: Connecting China and the Muslim World, Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 2016, pp. 157–71

Leila Cherif-Chebbi, ‘L’Ahong Sourd’, in V. Bouillier, C. Servan-Schreiber, ed., De l’Arabie à l’Himalaya: Chemins Croisés en Hommage à Marc Gaborieau, Paris: Maisonneuve & Larose, 2004: pp. 407–21

Leila Cherif-Chebbi, ‘Brothers and Comrades: Muslim Fundamentalists and Communists Allied for the Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in China’, in S. A. Dudoignon, ed., Devout Societies vs. Impious States? Transmitting Islamic Learning in Russia, Central Asia and China, through the Twentieth Century, Berlin: Klaus Schwarz, 2004, pp. 61–90

Allès, Elisabeth, Leila Cherif-Chebbi, Constance-Hélène Halfon, ‘Chinese Islam: Unity and Fragmentation’, Religion, State and Society, 31/1 (2003), pp. 8–35

Leila Cherif-Chebbi, ‘L’Yihewani, une Machine de Guerre contre le Soufisme en Chine?’, in F. De Jong, B. Radtke, eds., Islamic Mysticism Contested: Thirteen Centuries of Controversies and Polemics, Leiden: Brill, 1999, pp. 576–602

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