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u ͞Seek knowledge even as
far as China.͟
-Saying of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
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KN  HIM ?
 hat is Islam
u Islam is a monotheistic, religion. The word
Islam means "submission", or the total
surrender of oneself to God, or Allah in Arabic.
An adherent of Islam is known as a Muslim,
meaning "one who submits God͟ The word
Muslim is the participle of the same verb of
which Islam is the infinitive. There are
between 1 billion - 1.8 billion Muslims, making
Islam the second-largest religion in the world.
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u There does not seem to be any consensus on
this number. Most estimates range from as
low as 10 million to as high as 100 million
Muslims in China. However the figure of 25
million Muslims seems more plausible.
u . According to the CIA World Fact book, about
1%-2% of the total population in China are
Muslims
Muslims distribution in china
 rigin of Islam in china
u According to China Muslims' traditional
legendary accounts, Islam was first brought
to China by an embassy sent by
thman, the
third Caliph, in 651, less than twenty years
after the death
of prophet Muhammad. the Tang emperor
who received the envoy then ordered the
construction of the Memorial
mosque in Canton, the first mosque in the
country, in memory of the prophet
The magnificent Canton city mosque known to this day as the
'Memorial Mosque.' still stands today, after fourteen
centuries.
 
 
  

u Arab people are first noted in Chinese written

records, under the name Ta shi in the annals of
the Tang pynasty (618-907) (Ta shi or pa shi is the
Chinese rendering of Tazi--the name the Persian
people used for the Arabs.
u The Persian immigrants introduced polo, their
cuisine, their musical instruments, and their
knowledge of medicine to China.
   

u Many Muslims went to China to trade, and these

Muslims began to have a great economic impact and
influence on the country. puring the Song
pynasty (960-1279), Muslims in China dominated
foreign trade and the import/export industry to the
south and west
u In 1070, the Song emperor, Shen-tsung
(Shenzong) invited 5,300 Muslim men
from Bukhara, to settle in China
u The Yuan pynasty of China, continued to
maintain excellent relationship with other
nomadic tribes of Mongolia.

u According to Iranian historian Rashidu'd-pin

Fadlu'llah, of these 12 governors, 8
were Muslims; in the remaining districts,
Muslims were vice-governors
u In the fourteenth century, the total population
of Muslims was 4 million
u Genghis Khan, and the following Yuan
Emperors forbade Islamic practices like Halal
butchering, forcing Mongol methods of
butchering animals on Muslims, and other
restrictive degrees continued.
  

u Muslims continued to flourish in China during

the Ming pynasty. puring Ming rule, the
capital, Nanjing, was a center of Islamic
learning. The Ming dynasty saw the rapid
decline in the Muslim population in the sea
ports. This was due to the closing of all
seaport trade with the outside world
u Some of the Hui surnames are derived
from Arabic and Farsi names. Thus the following
names used by Chinese Hui Muslims have their
origin inArabic and Farsi.
u Ma for 4
ammad
u Han for 4
ammad
u Ha for ßasan
u Hu for ß ssein
u Sai for `aid
u Sha for `
a

u Uheng for `
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u The rise of the Qing pynasty (1644-1911) made

relations between the Muslims and Chinese more
difficult. Muslims suffered a decline in status, and
numerous Hui rebellions, such as the Panthay
Rebellion (1855-1873), pungan revolt (1862-1878).
u However, even in the Qing pynasty, Muslims had
many mosques in the large cities, with particularly
important ones
in Beijing, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and other
places.
   

u puring the time, the Muslims, along with

the Miao people, revolted against the Qing
pynasty, most notably in the pungan
revolt (1862-1877) and the Panthay
rebellion 1856-1873) in Yunnan. The Manchu
government committed genocide to suppress
these little known revolts, killing a million people
in the Panthay rebellion, several million in
the pungan revolt. [ A "washing off the Muslims
"(ë (xi Hui)) policy had been long advocated
by officials in the Manchu government.
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u
nder China's current leadership, in fact, Islam

appears to be undergoing a modest revival. Religious
leaders report more worshipers now than before the
Cultural Revolution, and a reawakening of interest in
religion among the young.
u According to a publication on mosques in, there are
now 32,749 mosques in the entire People's Republic
of China, with 23,000 in the province of Xinjiang.
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u The government constantly accused Muslims

and other religious groups of holding
"superstitious beliefs" and promoting "anti-
socialist trends". Mosques were often
defaced, destroyed or closed and copies of
the Quran were destroyed along with temples,
churches, monasteries, and cemeteries by
the Red Guards