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The term "Silk Road" is used in two senses-literal and metaphorical. When talking about it in its original sense economic historians tell us that the Arab world was a centre of global trade that straddled three continents and that Arab traders traf-fi cked in goods they bought and sold as they travelled overland and across the seas between Asia, Africa and Europe. Later, however, the centre of global commerce shifted gradually westwards, driven by the disasters and calamities that affl icted the Arab world, and consequently the silk caravans linking Asia with Europe all but disappeared, striking the death knell for a highly signifi cant era in the history of world trade. Much later, however, the fortunes of the world trade began to revive, particularly starting from the Far East to the Arabian/Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. International banks opened branches over the old routes while business zones and cargo ports have been established in place of the caravans of former times. Just as was the case with the area in general, it was accompanied by a strong economic revival throughout. It explains why some economists today are talking about "a revival of the Silk Road"-in its literal rather than metaphorical sense. Nowadays the economic focus on the Silk Road has never been stronger.
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The religious contacts along the Maritime Silk Routes gave rise to multiple borrowings and religious hybridizations. The penetration of Islam in China, and increased contacts with Chinese cultures, witnessed several ritual reconfigurations whose effects are still noticeable today. In this short paper, I will discuss the case study of the village of Baiqi, near Quanzhou City in Fujian Province, where a Chinese lineage, the Guo clan 郭, performs a Chinese ritual with Islamicate 1 characteristics. Indeed, the members of this lineage do not claim to practice Islam but mainly to be the descendants of Muslim merchants who settled in China's SouthEastern coast during the Song (960-1279) and Yuan (1279-1368) dynasties. Since the fourteenth century, many of these merchants intermarried with local residents, gradually assimilating to the rest of the Han (Chinese) population. Today, they resemble their Han neighbors in almost every aspect. Many of them, however, still commemorate their foreign origin and, in some cases, even claim a separate unique identity. The ritual practices of ancestral worship are a central component of the religious and spiritual world of the population of Southeast China. The descendants of Muslims in Southeast China, like their Han neighbors, perform these rituals meticulously. Nevertheless, their worship has some unique features that include customs and taboos in the offerings which they present to their Muslim ancestors. In this presentation, I will discuss the specificities of this community, which are closely related to the history of the Maritime Silk Road in China, focusing on one ritual: the Qingming Festival (translated into English as the "Tomb-Sweeping Day"). The Maritime Silk Roads The network of sea routes, known today as the Maritime Silk Roads, links the East with the West and connects China, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, Arabian Peninsula, 1 A term invented by the global historian Marshall Hodgson. Its single-line definition is best etched by Srinivas Aravamudan when he notes that Islamicate is "the hybrid trace rather than pure presence or absence of Islam"
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