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Between Mecca

and Beijing

Valentina Ventrice 13/05/2021


Muslim ethnic groups in China

48% 41% 6,1% 2,5%

Hui Uygur Kazakh Dongxiang

回族 (Huízú) 维吾尔 (Wéiwú’ěr) 哈萨克族 (Hāsàkè Zú) 东乡族


Dōngxiāngzú
RESEARCH QUESTION:

Can, two apparently


different cultures,
converge?
China’s regions with an high Muslim
concentration

> Hui (níng xià 宁夏 )

> Uygur (xīng jiàn 兴建 )


> Kazahk (xīng jiàn 兴
建)

> Dongxiang (líng xiá 玲霞


Issues that influece China’s state policy towards muslims

Uyghur China’s wish Oil export


China promotes the
Strive for independence and Take part in international relationship between Chinese
have gained more organizations. Muslims and the Middle East,
international support partly to create strong
throughout the years because partners in trade and partly
of the harsh way China treats because China sees itself as
the separatists. leader of the Third World.
Do you support Sharia? ( 伊斯兰法 yī sī lán fǎ)

Central Asia ( 中亚
zhōng yà)

South East Asia ( 东南亚 dōng nán y

South Asia ( 南亚 nán yà)


Three pillars

Immams/
Ahongs Islamic beliefs
Religious education
and practices
- Food
- Clothes ( e.g. 盖头
Gàitou )
Immams/ Ahongs 阿訇 (Ā hōng)

He stands at the centre of the


local community. He is in charge
Sermons are done in of the religious affairs of the
Chinese. Recitation from community; he holds the
the Quran is in Arabic community together and
protects it from the outside

China has more than


50,000 ahong
Callygraphy
In both Muslim and Chinese culture, calligraphy is a
very high valuated form of art.Of the many forms of
Islamic calligraphy in China, there is one that can be
properly described as a formal style. This is referred to
by Chinese Muslim calligraphers as simply the Chinese
or Sini script.
Scholars

鲁迅 Lǔ Xùn 胡適 Hú Shì
He was a leading figure of modern Chinese He was a Chinese
literature. Writing in Vernacular Chinese and philosopher, essayst and
Classical Chinese, he was a short story diplomat
writer, editor, translator, literary critic,
essayist, poet, and designer
The Niujie
Mosque ( 牛街
礼拜寺 ), a
fusion of
Chinese
architecture and
Muslim religion
The Niujie Mosque
牛街礼拜寺 Niú Jiē Lǐ Bài Sì
996 1661–1722
Mosques in China

There are 40,000 mosques in


China, varying from huge ones
like the Id Kah mosque in
Kashgar, Xinjiang that can
accommodate up to 20,000
worshippers to very small ones
of
only 100 square metres.
Conclusion
In the long-term purpose Beijing should
work not to assimilate the Uyghur people, but to
construct an equal, respectful,
and harmonious interethnic relationship between Han
Chinese and the Uyghur minority.
Thanks!

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References
https://www.pewforum.org/2013/04/30/the-worlds-muslims-rel
igion-politics-society-overview/
PEW research center.

L. Wan (2018) Two Scholars and the Hui Protest Movement


in China in 1932: The Attitudes of Hu Shih and Lu Xun
toward the Hui Minority and Islam, Riyadh

https://www.nordangliaeducation.com/resources/asia/_filecac
he/f84/454/22086-islam-in-china.pdf

https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1052819.shtml

https://www.chinahighlights.com/beijing/attraction/the-niujie-m
osque.html

http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjsj/pcsj/rkpc/6rp/indexce.html

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