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Distribution of Muslims in China in 2010, by province, according to Min Junqing's The Present Situation and Characteristics of Contemporary Islam in China, JISMOR n. 8, 2010 (p. 29). Data from Yang Zongde's Study on Current Muslim Population in China, Jinan Muslim n. 2, 2010. Date: 6 January 2016: Source
The history of Islam in China goes back to the earliest years of Islam. [1] According to Chinese Muslims' traditional accounts, Muslim missionaries reached China through an embassy sent by ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān (644–656 CE), the third rāshidūn caliph , in 651 CE, less than twenty years after the death of Muhammad (632 CE).
China banned a book titled "Xing Fengsu" ("Sexual Customs") which insulted Islam and placed its authors under arrest in 1989 after protests in Lanzhou and Beijing by Chinese Hui Muslims, during which the Chinese police provided protection to the Hui Muslim protestors, and the Chinese government organized public burnings of the book. [30]
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 Chinese Muslim Association is the largest Islamic organization in Taiwan. The mosque also holds inter-religious workshops and debates between Islam and Confucianism, Catholicism and Buddhism to promote mutual understanding with other religions. [7]
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Gedimu [note 1] or Qadim is the earliest school of Islam in China. It is a Hanafi non-Sufi school of the Sunni tradition. Its supporters are centered on local mosques, which function as relatively independent units. It is numerically the largest Islamic school of thought in China and most common school of Islam among the Hui.
The first mosque in China was the Huaisheng Mosque in Guangzhou, built during the Tang dynasty in 627 CE. In of 2014 there were 39,135 mosques in China, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in 2009 an estimated 25,000 of these were in Xinjiang , a north-west autonomous region , having a high density of one mosque per 500 Muslims.