Change in Beijing’s Muslim Population Over Time (1959-2000)

As I mentioned in one of my previous posts that I would be posting quantiative data about Muslims in Beijing. (This of it as a Razib style post.) The table below shows changes in Hui Muslim population over time. The source of information is the same as before (Beijing’s Hui Muslim Community). One can definitely [...]

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China to allow 2,700 Muslims to visit Mecca: report

via AFP. The numbers do not add up since a couple of years ago the Chinese government allowed 10,000 pilgrims to perform hajj but this news story is saying that only 30,000 Muslims from China have performed hajj in the last 20 years. I am guessing that this is a mmisprint and they actually mean [...]

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Why so silent – Uyghurs in China

Many people have complained in the past that one thing that is conspicuously missing from this blog is any discussion of the Uyghur people in China. Uyghur are predominantly Muslims and make up about half of all the Muslims in China. Some people have even left rather negative comments about this blog that the blog [...]

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Chinese Muslim Scholar on Teachings of Islam

“Reflecting upon this Great Learning (Islam), we see that the principle of righteousness is refined and detailed. It reaches directly to the root origin, specifically clarifying the Real One, manifesting the light of clarity of the true Tao, and stamping out the mistakes and errors of the heretics. In its quietude, it rests in the [...]

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Matsumoto Masumi on Islamic Reform Movement in 19th Century China

The Islamic Reform Movement was first initiated in the Middle East at the end of the nineteenth century. Scholars of Islamic modern history have proved that its scope covered the area from Morocco to Indonesia, including China. Sino-Muslim intellectuals were involved in the world-wide movement by visiting and staying in the Middle East. They would [...]

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Columbia Dissertation: Confucian-Islamic harmonization of the Tianfang Dianli

Liu Zhi’s journey through ritual law to Allah’s Chinese name : conceptual antecedents and theological obstacles to the Confucian-Islamic harmonization of the Tianfang Dianli
Link: http://digitalcommons.libraries.columbia.edu/dissertations/AAI3174789/
Abstract: This dissertation places the Chinese Muslim literatus Liu Zhi (1660?–1730?) and his writings in their historical, cultural, social and religio-philosophical context. Liu Zhi was affiliated with a burgeoning network of [...]

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Map of Haji Zheng He’s Famous Voyages

Haji Zheng He is considered to be the greatest Chinese Admirals of all time. Zheng He happened to be a Muslim who even performed Hajj, hence the name Haji. Above is the map of famous voyages. A number of Chinese Muslims settled in what is now Malaysia and Indonesia as a result of these voyages [...]

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Malay-Muslim & Chinese-Muslim Paradox

I have mentioned before that I will cover the topic of Chinese Muslims in Malaysia one of these daya but have not been able to do so mainly because of grad work. Plus I feel that opening up this topic would be equivalent to opening the Pandora’s box. I found this article while addresses some [...]

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Persian helped promulgate Islam in China

One thing that usually gets lost in discussion of Islam in “far-away” lands is the contribution of non-Arab Muslims in spreading Islam. The point is not to diminish the contribution of Arabs Muslims but rather to highlight the contribution made by many other. Here an article about the contibutions and the influence of the Persian [...]

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Chinese Muslims in Indonesia

 

Image Source: Anne Dickson for Inside Indonesia
Image Caption: Masjid Cheng Ho
Inside Indonesia has a rather nice article on Chinese Muslims in Indonesia. Based on the article it seems that Indonesia has made much progress in terms of race relations between the various races in Indonesia. Here is an excerpt from the article.
Just a few years [...]

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