The Chinese Islamic Root Islamic in Arabic!

Tianfang Xingli is considered to be a classic islamic text in the Chinese language. It is divided into three parts and one of the parts is known as the Root classic. Recently I was surprised to find out that the Root Classic was translated into Arabic in 1898 by a Chinese Muslim scholar Ma Lianyuan [...]

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Brass Cresent Awards 2009

Alright folks, its that time of the year. Brass Crescent awards are upon us. You have until this Friday to cast your vote for your faviorite Muslim blogs. Here is the URL:
http://www.brasscrescent.org/

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Change in Beijing’s Muslim Population Over Time (1959-2000)

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I would be posting quantiative data about Muslims in Beijing. (This of it as a Razib style post.) The table below shows changes in Hui Muslim population over time. The source of information is the same as before (Beijing’s Hui Muslim Community). One can definitely [...]

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Arabization in Xi’an

I was reading an article about Fashion amongst Chinese Muslims when I came across the following paragraph which I found particularly striking. It talks about the phenomenon of Arabization amongst some Hui in China. It is basically the confusion amongst some people of equating being a better Muslim with adopting Arab cultural norms.
When Lanlan had [...]

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Wang Daiyu in Emel!

Emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine has a feature on Muslim bloggers in their current issue. I am also featured in that feature. Be sure to check it out if you have access to the print edition. The URL of the magazine is as follows:
http://www.emel.com

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