Chinese pilgrims return home from Mecca

From the Xinhua news agency.
Chinese pilgrims return home from Mecca
YINCHUAN, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — A plane carrying 323 Chinese pilgrims landed safely at Hedong Airport of Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Saturday afternoon.
They are the first batch of Chinese Muslims to return home after [...]

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Rumi’s Masnavi in Chinese

Finally Rumi’s Masnavi has been translated into Chinese. Work on other languages like Korean translation is still ongoing. The link is in Turkish, you can use a translation utility like Google Translation to view the page in English.

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Islam in China wins Brass Cresent Awards and Facebook

The Islam in China Blog won the Brass Crescent Award for the best Muslim blog in the East and South East Asian Blog category. Thank you to the readers and Jazak’Allah for voting for the Islam in China Blog. To connect more with the readers I have created a Fan Page for the blog. You [...]

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Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak to everyone and Happy Thanksgiving to the readers in USA.
(Image Source: Astiak)

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6th Brass Crescent Awards

Voting for the 6th Brass Crescent Awards has started and just like last year, this blog has been nominated as the blog in the Asian Blogs category. Jazakallah for nominating this blog. You can vote for your favorite blog in this and other categories at the following URL:
http://brasscrescent.org

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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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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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Belated Eid Mubarak and other updates

(Image Source: Camel’s Nose Blog)
First of all a belated Eid Mubarak to everyone. I have not been posting that often in the last couple of months or so mainly because of the demands of academic work and also because of some travelling. However the good thing is that I have met other Chinese Muslims in USA [...]

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Ramadan Mubarak

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Ramadan Mubarak to everyone. May you have a blessed Ramadan!
P.S: I will be on the East Coast for the next 10 days or so. If readers from NY or the DC surrouding area want to meet up, message me.

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