Chinese Muslims in Indonesia

Indonesia has the largest population of ethnic Chinese people outside of China. and Indonesia is the largest Muslim state in the world. This put Chinese Indonesian Muslims in a really interesting position, on one hand they are part of the majority religiously speaking but on the other hand they are part of a minority in [...]

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Lautze Mosque and New Chinese Converts

The Lautze Mosque, a predominantly Chinese Mosque, in Jakarta Indonesia seems to be the place where non-Muslim Chinese people can learn about Islam and where new Chinese converts can integrate with the local Chinese Muslim community. Lautze mosque home to Chinese-Indonesian converts The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Fri, 08/06/2010 11:29 AM Squeezed between shops along [...]

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Changing Attitudes of Inter-marriage amongst Huis in China

In the second half of the 20th century the problem of out-marriage amongst Hui Muslims has become endemic to the extent that many descents of Hui Muslims are no longer Muslims. I was reading up on this topic in the book “Beijing’s Hui Muslim Community” and came across the following excerpt from an interview of [...]

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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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Arabization in Xi’an

I was reading an article about Fashion amongst Chinese Muslims when I came across the following paragraph which I found particularly striking. It talks about the phenomenon of Arabization amongst some Hui in China. It is basically the confusion amongst some people of equating being a better Muslim with adopting Arab cultural norms. When Lanlan [...]

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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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Chinese Islam and the Dominant Narrative

For any social community, religious or otherwise there is usually one dominant narrative and many more multiple narratives. If the community is large enough then owing to ideological, cultural or geographic reasons the dominant narrative of the sub-community may differ with the dominant narrative in as far as it will emphasize the role of the [...]

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Islam in China Blog: 10 Months Later

(A Hui Muslim Source: Vladimir Dinets Travel Site) Time flies. The Islam in China blog has been up for 10 months now and the response has been overwhelmingly positive. 50,000 hits later it is time to reflect and chart out a course for the future. My schedule and commitments in the offline world are such [...]

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Hussein Ye

For a change I thought I should talk about a Chinese Muslim who is more well known beyond the Chinese Muslim sphere. Hussein Ye is a Malaysian scholar of Chinese descent and has dedicated himself to the task of dawah being a convert himself. People from South Asia may be familiar with him since he [...]

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Muslim Manga Artist

The topic of Manga and Anime amongst Muslim artists has come up before. As a side note I have noticed that many people from Gulf like Japanese Anime since they grew up with it. I would expect that may be at least one of them may start something. While there may not be a large [...]

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