丝路视野下中阿关系史的部分难题新视角探究

Abstract

This paper deals with some difficult problems in the early stages of the history of medieval Chinese-Arab relations. Mainly limited to three problems; the first is whether the Islamic prophet Muhammad (PBUH) sent envoys to China. The 2nd is the authenticity of the well-known statement in Arab history and the hadith that is generally popular among Chinese Muslims and academic circles: "Seek knowledge even if you have to go as far as China"? The 3rd is, when was Islam introduced to China? It can be said that these and other related topics till now have not reached a convincing answer in the history of Sino-Arab relations since ancient times, especially the problem of the introduction of Islam into China. The main reason for picking these three questions is that Chinese scholars and even Arab scholars have been searching for answers from a historical perspective. Of course, this approach is logical. However, at least as far as I know, previous scholars did not enough cite Arabic historical documents and linguistics to explore the answer. In addition, this small paper also provides novel ideas for senior scholars, that is, to explore the answer to this topic by combining bilaterally related historical documents and linguistics. For this reason, the author first discusses these three topics in the traditional way and then uses the logical development of historical events and the meaning embedded in the language to solve and provide fresh viewpoints and conclusions.