Chinese Muslims in Turkey: The Story of Ramazan Kubilay

Continuing the last post about Chinese Muslims in Turkey, here is another excerpt from the same book. This time it is about Kazakh Muslims living in China who migrated to Turkey. Ramazan Kubilay — Kazakh Ramazan Kubilay is the son of the great Tursunbay, a Kazakh who helped lead his people out of China, through [...]

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An African American Muslim Convert as the founder of Chinese Hip-Hop

Even though it is quite well known amongst the youth in the North American Muslim community that a lot of hip hop artists are Muslim it was still surprising for me to discover that the person who is largely responsible for introducing hip-hop in China is an American Muslim convert named Dana Burton. The same [...]

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The Destination of Muslim Immigrants – China?

Who would have thought that out of all places in the world many people, including a lot of Muslims, would be migrating to China to flee political instability and other hardships in their countries. Apparently there are more than a thousand Iraqi refugees in Yiwu alone and Muslims from other parts of the Muslim world [...]

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China as a safe haven for Myanmar’s Muslims

[Caption: A Rohingya Muslim Girl; Image Source: Myanmar Muslim] Although this story is not strictly about Chinese Muslims but it is related to a news item which has been quite prominent in the news lately and does involve Muslims in China but not exactly Chinese Muslims. What I am referring to are people from the [...]

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