Islam in China on Twitter!

I have been MIA for the late few months. That is mainly because I started working and working has been taking up majority of my time but now that things are getting manageable I am finally getting back to the project. There have been a number of interesting developments in the recent past which I [...]

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Islam in China gets Nominated for the Brass Crescent Awards!

The Islam in China Blog has been nominated for the Brass Crescent Awards in the East/Southeast Asian category. Jazak’Allah khair to all the people who nominated this blog. Now that the time has come to cast your vote, please be sure to do so. Thank you for choosing Islam in China as the best blog [...]

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Eid Mubarak from Wang Daiyu

Eid Mubrak to everyone. May God accept all of your fasts and prayers. Muslims praying on Eid in Beijing Image Source: Xinhua

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Wang Daiyu at ISNA?

The annual ISNA isconvention is gong to be held next weekend. Although I have not decided it yet but I was wondering if many readers of the blog are planning to attend the convention. We can have a meet up if there are sufficient people who are going. Leave a comment or drop me a [...]

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Eid in Ningxia

Image Source: Xinhua

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Flavourful Muslim fare in Taiwan

Prospects of tourism between Taiwan another Islamic countries. Flavourful Muslim fare in Taiwan 2010/03/10 ZALINA MOHD SOM When in Taiwan, Malaysians can indulge in a favourite pastime — that of eating out — with relish, writes ZALINA MOHD SOM EXCEPT for his white skull-cap, 80-year-old Yusuf Ai looks as ordinary as the next man. The [...]

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Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger

Happy Chinese New Year to all the Chinese brothers and sisters. 恭喜发财 If the readers want to know how to greet Chinese people on this ocassion, here is link which can help you. http://blog.mangolanguages.com/2010/02/15/a-happy-chinese-new-year-at-mango-languages/ (Image Source: http://www.malaysiasite.nl/images/tigerchinese.gif)

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Muslims and Chinese Rocket Technology in the time of Kublai Khan

While it is widely known that the Chinese were instrumental in inventing explosives and in advancing early rocket technology, it is less known that during the time of Kublai Khan Turkish Muslims were instrumental in helping the Mongols in conquering China and advancing this technology and building siege weapons. According to Muslim Heritage, between 1271 [...]

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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 completing their pilgrimage to Mecca this [...]

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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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