Descendents of Chinese Muslims in Taiwan

I use the word descendant because these group of people are no longer Muslim but still maintain some Muslim practices that differentiate them from their neighbors. The following is an excerpt from an early 20th century text which itself was quoted in a 1970 issue of Aramco. Many Muslims followed Koxinga in the 17th century [...]

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Chinese Muslims in Singapore

2jay posted an article on Chinese Muslims a few months ago. Here is an excerpt. Ms Mah is the eldest of three children of a Shanghai businessman of Hui or Uyghur descent, whose family has been embraced the Islamic faith for generations. Her family moved to Singapore in the late 1920s and she remembers growing [...]

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Oldest handwritten copy of Quran in China restored

I cam across the following some time ago but did not get a get a chance to post it until now that is. China restores oldest handwritten copy of QuranXINING — Chinese experts have restored a 700-year-old handwritten copy of the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, in northwest China’s Qinghai Province. The 867-page, two-volume [...]

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Islam in china: Photos: Masjid Cheng Ho

Masjid Cheng Ho in Indonesia was built to commemorate the visit of Chinese Muslim Admiral Zheng He in Indonesia.

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Wang Daiyu’s Random Observations

(Note: By Wang Daiyu I mean myself and not the famous scholar.) Today I will be taking a break from regular blogging and will be going slightly off topic and talking about a few random things about life, Islam, America, China etc. Depending upon where you live you can see the most integrated and the [...]

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Sheikh Liu Zhi on Gender Equality in Islam

Here are a few sayings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Sheikh Liu Zhi on Gender Sheikh Liu Zhi excerpted from The History of Women’s Mosques in Chinese Islam by Maria Jaschok. “… parents follow God’s will when they bring children into the world, is this not the case? So all children should be treated in [...]

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First Muslims in New Zealand were Chinese!

A little known fact is that the first Muslims in New Zealand were from China and worked primarily as miners. They arrived in 1868. They worked as gold diggers in the Dunstan gold fields. It is likely that they were fleeing China as a result of the Hui minorities war. It was also around this [...]

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“Our Muslim Sisters” by Lu Jiye and Wang Hailan

The following poem (source: Arab Studies Journal) was written by two Chinese Muslim women Lu Jiye and Wang Hailan, first published in 1993. Our Muslim Sisters How can we confine ourselves to the closed courtyards? May the eyes of the world stare us into faltering, But for Islam We must go forth to meet the [...]

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Islam in China: Pictures: Taipei Grand Mosque

Image source: http://muntohar.wordpress.com/2007/01/21/sekilas-taiwan/

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Islam in Inner Mongolia

Most people outside of China do not know this but there are more Mongolians that live in China then Mongolians who live in the country of Mongolia itself! Most of them live in Chinese provinces of Inner Mongolia and Liaoning. A minority of Mongolians are also Muslims. I recently came across this article on “Muslim” [...]

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