In the paper, Ma-Dexin, a scholar from China's Muslim background, discussed how to interpret Confucianism as Islam. If Islam started in the Middle East, Confucianism started in East Asia. However, Ma-Dexin argues that it is the same if you go back to ...
In the paper, Ma-Dexin, a scholar from China's Muslim background, discussed how to interpret Confucianism as Islam. If Islam started in the Middle East, Confucianism started in East Asia. However, Ma-Dexin argues that it is the same if you go back to the roots of Islam and Confucianism. He interprets Confucianism religiously, interpreting Allah of Islam as a "Tian(天)" or "Sangdi(上帝)" of Confucianism.
He has a shapeless cloth in the Confucian scriptures and a shapeless cloth. However, one of the two claims that the shapeless Tian is the same as Allah. He emphasized transcendent cloth in Confucian scriptures, Confucius(孔子), and Mencius(孟子), but in Lixue(理學), transcendent cloth was converted to metaphysical cloth. Therefore, it is argued that Lixue's Li(理) has no main power, so it should be premised on Allah.
And Ma-Dexin approaches Islam's faith as a matter of receiving Confucianism. He needs to cultivate virtue in order to cultivate faith, and he is looking for the right way to reduce greed. Ma-Dexin argues that if you cleanse your mind and reduce your greed, you can get closer to Allah.