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The Muslims in China who were descended from earlier immigration began to assimilate by speaking Chinese and by adopting Chinese names and culture. Mosque architecture began to follow traditional Chinese architecture. This era, sometimes considered the Golden Age of Islam in China, [41] also saw Nanjing become an important center of Islamic ...
The Jahriyya order was founded by the Gansu Chinese-speaking Muslim scholar Ma Mingxin soon after his return to China in 1761, after 16 years of studying in Mecca and Yemen. Jahriyya is a Naqshbandi (نقشبندية; 納克什班迪) Sufi order.
Although Hui Muslims are the most numerous group, [4] the greatest concentration of Chinese Muslims are located in Northwestern China, mostly in the autonomous region of Xinjiang, which holds a significant Uyghur population. [1] Lesser but significant Chinese Muslim populations reside in the regions of Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai. [5]
The Chinese Islamic Association issued "A message to all Muslims in China from the Chinese Islamic Association for National Salvation" in Ramadan of 1940 during the Second Sino-Japanese War. We have to implement the teaching "the love of the fatherland is an article of faith" by the Prophet Muhammad and to inherit the Hui's glorious history in ...
The Muslim family of General Ma Bufang, favorable to the defense of Chiang, to the fight against corruption of Feng Yuxiang in Noroeste. The Ma Clique warlords were all generals in the military of the Republic of China, who controlled most of Mainland China until it was overtaken by the communist People's Liberation Army.
In Gansu province, China promises a better future to Muslim minorities — if they trade their devotion to faith for devotion to the Communist Party.
The People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, in the aftermath of the Chinese Communist Revolution (1946−1950). During the Land Reform Movement, Muslims received preferential policies, as Article 3 of the Agrarian Reform Law of 1950 expressly exempted mosque-owned lands from expropriation and redistribution, unlike ancestral shrines, Buddhist monasteries, and Christian churches.
The Dungan Revolt (1862–1877), also known as the Tongzhi Hui Revolt (simplified Chinese: 同治回乱; traditional Chinese: 同治回亂; pinyin: Tóngzhì Huí Luàn, Xiao'erjing: تُجِ خُوِ لُوًا, Dungan: Тунҗы Хуэй Луан) or Hui (Muslim) Minorities War, was a war fought in 19th-century western China, mostly ...