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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Chinese Muslims in Indonesia
Posted in Chinese Muslim Diaspora, tagged Chinese Muslims, indonesia, indonesian muslims, islam in china, islam in indonesia, Wali Sanga on March 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
China-Indonesia Islamic Culture Expo & Art Show
Posted in Chinese Islam, Chinese Muslims, tagged china, chinese muslim, indonesia, islam, islam in china, islamic culture, islamic culture expo, muslim on July 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
From Xinhua via China Daily: China-Indonesia Islamic Culture Expo & Art Show 2010 Concludes in Jakarta 08:35, July 26, 2010 China-Indonesia Islamic Cultural Expo and Art Show 2010 was concluded in Jakarta on Sunday night, after five-day-long activities in Surabaya and Jakarta. At the closing ceremony, Chen Guangyuan, director of China Islamic Association, said that [...]
Why are there so few Chinese Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia?
Posted in Chinese Muslims, tagged indonesia, islam, islam in indonesia, islam in malaysia, malay world, muslim on September 28, 2009 | 16 Comments »
The Malay world constitute the countries of Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, Singapore and the island of Mindanao in Phillipines. While Muslims are in the majority in Indonesia and Malaysia and both these counties have large Chinese minorities, the percentage of Chinese Muslims is quite small. Thus Indonesia has the largest population of Chinese people outside of [...]
Chinese Muslims in Indonesia
Posted in Chinese Muslim Diaspora, Chinese Muslims, tagged cheng ho, china, chinese muslim, indonesia, indonesian, indonesian chinese, indonesian chinese muslim, islam, masjid cheng ho, muslim on February 3, 2009 | 4 Comments »
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. [...]
Integrating Ancient Chinese Philosophy and Islamic Business Principles
Posted in Miscellaneous, tagged Analetics, china, chinese, chinese philosophy, chinse muslims, Confucius, indonesia, islam, islamic finance, muslim, quran, Sunnah on July 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I came across this presentation on Chinese work ethics and Islamic business principles on a blog by almost an accident. The author is actually non-Muslim Indonesian resident. The main thrust of the argument is that the Chinese business and work ethics which is based on Confucian principles and Islamic business principles which are based on [...]
Islam in china: Photos: Masjid Cheng Ho
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cheng ho, china, chinese masjid, chinese mosque, indonesia, islam, masjid, mosque, muslim, photos, Pictures, zheng he on January 22, 2008 | 27 Comments »
Masjid Cheng Ho in Indonesia was built to commemorate the visit of Chinese Muslim Admiral Zheng He in Indonesia.