Jonathan Lipman on Chinese Muslims
For a change, I will be occasionally talking about academia’s take on Chinese Muslims and Islam in China. One person who occasionally has written about Islam is Jonathan Lipman who is a professor at...
View ArticleSheikh Liu Zhi on Gender Equality in Islam
Here are a few sayings of the Chinese Muslim scholar Sheikh Liu Zhi on Gender Sheikh Liu Zhi excerpted from The History of Women’s Mosques in Chinese Islam by Maria Jaschok. “… parents follow God’s...
View ArticleXiao’erjing: Chinese Language in Arabic Script
Xiao’erjing 小儿经/小儿锦 is the name given to the Arabic script when it is used to write any of the Chinese Languages by Chinese Muslims of different ethnicities and also by the Dungan (descendants of...
View ArticleChinese top political advisor calls for prosperity in Muslim region
A recent news story from Xinhua BEIJING, March 10 (Xinhua) — Chinese top political advisor Jia Qinglin called for prosperity in the northwestern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Monday. Jia, chairman...
View ArticleChinese Origin of Paper Money in the Islamic World
Paper money was first invented in China in the 13th century and soon made its way to Islamic world. In both of these places it did not survive for long. Paper money was first introduced in the Islamic...
View ArticleIslamic Chinese Wallpapers Galore!
Here are a few Islamic wallpapers with Chinese themes that I created recently. The map of the China is present in all the three wallpapers and the first two also have the name of the Prophet Muhammad...
View ArticleRamadan Crackdown & the use of Terminology: Chinese Muslim vs. Uiygar vs. Hui...
Before delving into the issue regarding Ramadan restrictions in Xinjiang I wanted to clarify some terminology which most people outside of China get wrong. Thus for example the media often uses the...
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