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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 history of Islam in China dates back to 1,300 years ago. [1] [2] Currently, Chinese Muslims are a minority group in China, representing between 0.45% to 1.8% of the total population according to the latest estimates. [3]
In August 2023, Xi Jinping called the sinicization of Islam in China to be deepened. [53] In March 2024, Xinjiang's Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary, Ma Xingrui, stated that the sinicization of Islam in Xinjiang is "inevitable." [54] Prohibitions on fasting during Ramadan are couched in terms of protecting residents' free will. [55]
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.
As a result of increasing isolationism by the Ming dynasty, immigration from Muslim countries slowed down drastically, and the Muslims in China became increasingly isolated from the rest of the Islamic world, gradually becoming more sinicized and adopting the Chinese language and Chinese dress. Muslims became fully integrated into Chinese society.
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 history of Islam in China goes back to the earliest years of Islam.According to the Chinese Old book of Tang [1] Muslim missionaries reached China through an embassy sent by ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān (644–656), the third rāshidūn caliph, in 651 CE, less than twenty years after the death of Muhammad (632 CE) in the second year of the third Tang Dynasty Emperor. [2]
Muslims constitute a minority group in China; according to the latest estimates, they represent between 0.45% and 1.8% of the total population. [ 2 ] [ 15 ] While Hui people are the most numerous subgroup, [ 16 ] the greatest concentration of Muslims is in Xinjiang , which has a significant Uyghur population.