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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Construction Periods of Mosques in Beijing

Here is a list of construction period of mosques built in Beijing until the 1930s, taken from the text “Beijing’s Hui Muslim Community.” Song Dynasty 1 Yuan Dynasty 4 Ming Dynasty 4 Qing Dynasty 30 Republican China 3 Total Moques in 1930s: 42

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Hui Muslims in Beijing in 1928

I am currently reading “The Development and Decline of Beijng’s Hui Muslim Communitty” by Zhou Chuanbin and Ma Xuefeng. It has a some statistical data on the history of the Muslim community in Beijing. I will be posting this info here from time to time. Here is  the first post. According to the 1928 Chinese [...]

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Halal Food in Beijing Olympics 2008

Here is some information on Halal food during the Beijing Olympics straight from the Chinese government. I will post some information on Halal restaurants in Beijing soon insha’Allah. Beijing promises ample Muslim food outlets during Olympics GOV.cn         Thursday, July 24, 2008 Muslim visitors to Beijing will find halal food outlets within easy reach [...]

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Earliest Complete Translation of the Quran into Chinese

Here is an interesting fact. The earliest complete translation of the Quran into Mandrian (Chinese) was translated not from Arabic but from Japanese which itself was translated into Japanese by Sakamoto Ken-ichi from Rodwell’s English translation of the Quran. The Chinese translation was done by a non-Muslim scholar named Li Tiezheng and was published in [...]

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