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The Baan Haw Mosque (王和清真寺) is located in the Chiang Mai province in Thailand. It was built by Chinese Muslims in Thailand and thus one can Chinese architecture in the style of this Mosque.

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A nice gallery on Chinese Islamic Art on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/drugladney/sets/1287854/

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A few months ago I did a post on Haji Noor Deen who is the most known Chinese Muslim calligrapher in USA and as one can well imagine he is not the only one around. Here is an artictle about Haji Yousaf Chen Jinhui who is based in China. The following article appeared in the [...]

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[Image Source: ArchNet, Caption: View to west with Ming portal addition in foreground and tripartite qibla hall in background]

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Someone just sent me these wallpapers which are very appropriate for this site. The Chinese characters in the center can roughly be translated as “Truth Reason” Each surrounding tile has the Islamic deceleration of faith says in Arabic “There is not God but God and Muhammad (pbuh) is his prophet.”

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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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Yes, the legendary Chinese Martial Arts Grandmaster Wang Ziping (1881-1973) was a Muslim. The history of “Muslim” Martial Arts in China is a fascinating subject. I will post on this subject sometime in the future insha’Allah. The descendants of Grandmaster Wang Ziping now live in USA and still practice and teach Martial Arts but I [...]

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This news item may be of interest to people living in the Gulf region. The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research in Abu Dhabi will organize a Chinese Islamic Art Exhibition at Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation from 17 to 19 this month. I wish I could see the exhibition. If any of the readers [...]

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