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When the People's Republic of China was established in 1949, Muslims, along with all other religions in China, suffered repression especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976). Islam, like all religions including traditional Chinese religion, was persecuted by the Red Guards who were encouraged to smash the Four Olds. Numerous places ...
Islam is one of the religions that is still officially recognized in China. [ 8 ] China's long and interactive relationship with the various tribes and empires of the Eurasian Steppe through diplomacy, trade, war, subordination, and/or domination paved the way for a large sustained Muslim community within China.
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 continuity of Chinese civilisation across thousands of years and thousands of square miles is made possible through China's religious traditions understood as systems of knowledge transmission. [147] A worthy Chinese is expected to remember a vast amount of information from the past, and to draw on this past to form his moral reasoning. [147]
The state protects normal religious activities. No one may use religion to make an attack on the order of society, harm the physical health of citizens, or impede the activities of the state's education system. Religious groups and religious affairs shall not be subject to the power of foreign domination." [5]
History of Islam in China (1 C, 13 P) I. Islamism in China (2 C, 2 P) M. Mosques in China (7 C, 29 P) Muslim communities of China (6 C, 14 P) O.
Xinjiang's top Communist Party official said on Thursday that the "Sinicisation" of Islam in the Muslim-majority region in northwestern China, where Beijing is accused of human rights abuses, is ...
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.