Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 2026 (ESCI, Scopus)
This article reinterprets the 1781 Salar uprising by moving beyond explanations centered solely on sectarian rivalry between the Khufiyya and Jahriyya menhuan. Drawing on Qing archival records, local historical accounts, and later Muslim narratives, it argues that the uprising emerged through the cumulative interaction of institutional rivalry, uneven legal intervention, concentrated local authority, economic burdens, and social exclusion in the Salar region of Northwest China. Particular attention is given to the 1748 lawsuit involving Ma Yinghuan and Ma Laichi as an early moment in the reconfiguration of religious legitimacy under Qing law. The article further shows how later conflicts were intensified by the overlapping structures of tusi, khazui, and menhuan authority, as well as by administrative suspicion and unequal adjudication. Rather than a sudden eruption of doctrinal conflict, the uprising is interpreted as the outcome of a long-term process in which law, power, resources, and religious authority became increasingly intertwined.