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Last weekend I had the pleasure of meeting Stephen Hanning who is a Professor at Northwestern and whose main area of research is with respect to Chinese Muslims. In the past he has studied political activism amongst Chinese Muslims. Currently he is doing some work related the History of the Soul. The most interesting aspect [...]

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During the 1940s many Chinese Muslims fled China to escape the unrest caused by the civil wars and settled in what is now Pakistan. Some of these people did not go back to China. At one time there was even a mosque in Lahore called the Chini Masjid (Chinese Mosque). I do not know what [...]

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The religion of Islam has been called by different names in different eras in China. Here is interesting information from the book Islam in China. During the Tang Dynasty Islam was called “Dashi Jiao” (religion of Dashi, the Arabs were called Dashi), in the time of the Ming Dynasty it was called “Tianfang Jiao” (religion [...]

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