The Descendants of Grandmaster Wang Ziping

(Image: Master Wu Xiaoping with her grandfather Grandmaster Wang Ziping) I have talked about the legendary Muslim Martial Artist Grandmaster Wang Ziping a few times before.  The grandchildren of Grandmaster Wang Ziping have carried on the family tradition. The website Wu Yi Jie He Family System of Chinese Healing and Martial Arts has some information about members of [...]

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Mosque for Chinese Muslims nears reality

The news is a couple of months old but better late than never. I have been following this news for some time now and it seems that it is finally becoming a reality. Here is the relevant story from The Star Online. Tuesday March 1, 2011 Mosque for Chinese Muslims nears reality KUALA LUMPUR: Chinese [...]

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Chinese Muslim Rapper on the tragedy in Japan

Daddy Chang is a Chinese Muslim rapper originally from Canada but is now based in Shanghai. Here is his latest rap in support of the Japanese people regarding the recent tragedy in Japan. Here are the lyrics and translation from the website ChinaSMACK. “我的邻居” ["My Neighbor"] Lyrics and English Translations: [Note: Rap lyrics can be [...]

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Chinese Muslims in Indonesia

Indonesia has the largest population of ethnic Chinese people outside of China. and Indonesia is the largest Muslim state in the world. This put Chinese Indonesian Muslims in a really interesting position, on one hand they are part of the majority religiously speaking but on the other hand they are part of a minority in [...]

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Chindian: Chinese-Indian Muslim

India and China are two most populous nations in the world. With globalization and massive movement of people from part of the world to the other it is bound to happen that there will be inter-mixing between these two nationalities. I found the following relevent excerpt with respect to Chinese-Indian Muslims on a forum. a. [...]

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Chinese Masjid in Panjang, Kelantan

(Image Source: Savielo08)

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Lautze Mosque and New Chinese Converts

The Lautze Mosque, a predominantly Chinese Mosque, in Jakarta Indonesia seems to be the place where non-Muslim Chinese people can learn about Islam and where new Chinese converts can integrate with the local Chinese Muslim community. Lautze mosque home to Chinese-Indonesian converts The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 08/06/2010 11:29 AM Squeezed between shops along [...]

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Baan Haw Mosque in Thailand

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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Blog of a Chinese American Muslim

Amir Khalid or Anke Jiang (蒋安可) is a Chinese American Muslim who blogs at “Allah is in China”  (http://allahisinchina.wordpress.com). Here is an excerpt from one of his blog posts on Ramadan. I fasted today, tightening the notches of my belt from sunrise to sunset, abstaining from any food throughout the entire day. Unlike most Muslims [...]

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Columbia Dissertation: Confucian-Islamic harmonization of the Tianfang Dianli

Liu Zhi’s journey through ritual law to Allah’s Chinese name : conceptual antecedents and theological obstacles to the Confucian-Islamic harmonization of the Tianfang Dianli Link: http://digitalcommons.libraries.columbia.edu/dissertations/AAI3174789/ Abstract: This dissertation places the Chinese Muslim literatus Liu Zhi (1660?–1730?) and his writings in their historical, cultural, social and religio-philosophical context. Liu Zhi was affiliated with a burgeoning [...]

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