Chinese Woman Embraces Islam and some Questions

In Brunei it is not rare for Chinese people to embrace Islam, so one comes across such stories quite often. Given below is a news story from Brunei. Chinese Woman Embraces Islam By Aemy Azlena Bandar Seri Begawan – The Muslim community in Brunei welcomes another Chinese convert into its fold as 25-year old Siti [...]

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Fawzia Tung – A Chinese American Muslim

Speaking of American Muslims and Chinese Muslims, it is interesting to note that the executive director of CAIR – Arizona is also of Chinese Muslim descent. Here is her profile from the Arizona Republic. Initially, Fawzia Tung didn’t think the attacks on Sept. 11 really affected her life. She was wrong. She soon realized it [...]

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Perspective of a Chinese Muslima (Part II: Fitting In)

This is the second part in the series Perspective of a Chinese Muslima. If you have any questions then you can post them here or forward them. If you are minority in a country then it can be difficult to fit in or it can be normal depending upon the wider society and how the [...]

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‘Chinese’ and ‘Chinese Muslim Food’ in America

This post is not about Islam in China per se but I thought I should share it with everyone since its the end of the year. One interesting thing about Chinese Food in other countries is that one can come across ‘Chinese Food’ but it does not taste like ‘Chinese Food.’ Chinese Food in America [...]

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Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak to all Muslim brothers and sisters!

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Fatima bint Saad

I recently came across the name of Fatima bint Saad in an article. I was not familiar with this name before. She is supposed to be an early Muslim Chinese scholar and reached a rank where she used to give Ijaza. Beyond these two facts I do not know anything about her. As before I [...]

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Islam in China: Pictures: The Great Mosque of Xian (iii)

Looks like Muslimah is going to get her wish today. Here is the inside view of the Great Mosque of Xian.

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Earliest Complete Translation of the Quran into Chinese

Here is an interesting fact. The earliest complete translation of the Quran into Mandrian (Chinese) was translated not from Arabic but from Japanese which itself was translated into Japanese by Sakamoto Ken-ichi from Rodwell’s English translation of the Quran. The Chinese translation was done by a non-Muslim scholar named Li Tiezheng and was published in [...]

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Request for Feedback: Islam in China FAQ

Alhamdulilah the Islam in China blog is almost two months old now and I have covered a variety of topic related to Islam in China and Chinese Muslims. I have realized that I should have covered the basics about Islam in China before hand. In order to address this deficiency I will be creating a [...]

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Islam in China: Pictures: The Great Mosque of Xian (ii)

Again the mosque of Xian but from a different angle.

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