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Some Respectful Questions for Muslims
Well I don’t want to confuse anybody. One may stick to one’s grafted picture in one’s brain/mind. But since one believes in reasoning and free will; one may like to read it in Wikipedia, which is not a Muslim source anyway; no compulsion. Wikipedia accommodate refutations; if one disagrees one may refute it and get it deleted, if one is truthful.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_China
Islam in China
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Islam in China has a rich heritage. China has some of the oldest Muslim history, dating back to as early as 650,[1] when the uncle of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sa`ad ibn Abi Waqqas, was sent as an official envoy to Emperor Gaozong during Caliph Uthman’s era. Throughout the history of Islam in China, Chinese Muslims have influenced the course of Chinese history.
According to legend, Islam was first brought to China by an envoy sent by Uthman, the third Caliph, in 651, less than twenty years after the death of prophet Muhammad. The envoy was led by Sa`d ibn Abī Waqqās, the maternal uncle of the Prophet himself. Emperor Gaozong, the Tang emperor who received the envoy then ordered the construction of the Memorial mosque in Canton, the first mosque in the country.
It was during the Tang Dynasty that China had its golden day of cosmopolitan culture which helped the introduction of Islam. The first major Muslim settlements in China consisted of Arab and Persian merchants.[2] The term Hui originated from the Mandarin word “Huihui,” a term first used in the Yuan dynasty to describe Central Asian, Persian, and Arab residents in China [3]
By the time of the Song Dynasty, Muslims had come to dominate the import/export industry.[1] The office of Director General of Shipping was consistently held by a Muslim during this period.[4] In 1070, the Song emperor Shenzong invited 5,300 Muslim men from Bukhara, to settle in China in order to create a buffer zone between the Chinese and the Liao empire in the northeast.
Later on these men were settled between the Sung capital of Kaifeng and Yenching (modern day Beijing).[5] They were led by Prince Amir Sayyid “So-fei-er” (his Chinese name) who was reputed of being called the “father” of the Muslim community in China. Prior to him Islam was named by the Tang and Song Chinese as Dashi fa (“law of the Arabs”) (Tashi or Dashi is the Chinese rendering of Tazi–the name the Persian people used for the Arabs). .[6] He renamed it to Huihui Jiao (“the Religion of the Huihui”).[7]
It was during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, (1274 - 1368), that large numbers of Muslims settled in China. The Mongols, a minority in China, gave Muslim immigrants an elevated status over the native Han Chinese as part of their governing strategy, thus giving Muslims a heavy influence. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims immigrants were recruited and forcibly relocated from Western and Central Asia by the Mongols to help them administer their rapidly expanding empire.[8]
The Mongols used Persian, Arab and Uyghur administrators to act as officers of taxation and finance. Muslims headed many corporations in China in the early Yuan period.[9] Muslim scholars were brought to work on calendar making and astronomy. The architect Yeheidie’erding (Amir al-Din) learned from Han architecture and helped to design the construction of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Khanbaliq, which was in the location of present-day Beijing.[10]
During the following Ming Dynasty, Muslims continued to be influential around government circles. Six of Ming Dynasty founder Zhu Yuanzhang’s most trusted generals were Muslim, including Lan Yu who, in 1388, led a strong imperial Ming army out of the Great Wall and won a decisive victory over the Mongols in Mongolia, effectively ending the Mongol dream to re-conquer China. Additionally, the Yongle Emperor hired Zheng He, perhaps the most famous Chinese Muslim and China’s foremost explorer, to lead seven expeditions to the Indian Ocean, from 1405 and 1433. However, during the Ming Dynasty, new immigration to China from Muslim countries was restricted in an increasingly isolationist nation.
The Muslims in China who were descended from earlier immigration began to assimilate by speaking Chinese dialects 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,[4] also saw Nanjing become an important center of Islamic study.
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Some Respectful Questions for Muslims
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Well I don’t want to confuse anybody. One may stick to one’s grafted picture in one’s brain/mind. But since one believes in reasoning and free will; one may like to read it in Wikipedia, which is not a Muslim source anyway; no compulsion. Wikipedia accommodate refutations; if one disagrees one may refute it and get it deleted, if one is truthful.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_China
Islam in China
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Islam in China has a rich heritage. China has some of the oldest Muslim history, dating back to as early as 650,[1] when the uncle of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Sa`ad ibn Abi Waqqas, was sent as an official envoy to Emperor Gaozong during Caliph Uthman’s era. Throughout the history of Islam in China, Chinese Muslims have influenced the course of Chinese history.
According to legend, Islam was first brought to China by an envoy sent by Uthman, the third Caliph, in 651, less than twenty years after the death of prophet Muhammad. The envoy was led by Sa`d ibn Abī Waqqās, the maternal uncle of the Prophet himself. Emperor Gaozong, the Tang emperor who received the envoy then ordered the construction of the Memorial mosque in Canton, the first mosque in the country.
It was during the Tang Dynasty that China had its golden day of cosmopolitan culture which helped the introduction of Islam. The first major Muslim settlements in China consisted of Arab and Persian merchants.[2] The term Hui originated from the Mandarin word “Huihui,” a term first used in the Yuan dynasty to describe Central Asian, Persian, and Arab residents in China [3]
By the time of the Song Dynasty, Muslims had come to dominate the import/export industry.[1] The office of Director General of Shipping was consistently held by a Muslim during this period.[4] In 1070, the Song emperor Shenzong invited 5,300 Muslim men from Bukhara, to settle in China in order to create a buffer zone between the Chinese and the Liao empire in the northeast.
Later on these men were settled between the Sung capital of Kaifeng and Yenching (modern day Beijing).[5] They were led by Prince Amir Sayyid “So-fei-er” (his Chinese name) who was reputed of being called the “father” of the Muslim community in China. Prior to him Islam was named by the Tang and Song Chinese as Dashi fa (“law of the Arabs”) (Tashi or Dashi is the Chinese rendering of Tazi–the name the Persian people used for the Arabs). .[6] He renamed it to Huihui Jiao (“the Religion of the Huihui”).[7]
It was during the Mongol Yuan Dynasty, (1274 - 1368), that large numbers of Muslims settled in China. The Mongols, a minority in China, gave Muslim immigrants an elevated status over the native Han Chinese as part of their governing strategy, thus giving Muslims a heavy influence. Hundreds of thousands of Muslims immigrants were recruited and forcibly relocated from Western and Central Asia by the Mongols to help them administer their rapidly expanding empire.[8]
The Mongols used Persian, Arab and Uyghur administrators to act as officers of taxation and finance. Muslims headed many corporations in China in the early Yuan period.[9] Muslim scholars were brought to work on calendar making and astronomy. The architect Yeheidie’erding (Amir al-Din) learned from Han architecture and helped to design the construction of the capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Khanbaliq, which was in the location of present-day Beijing.[10]
During the following Ming Dynasty, Muslims continued to be influential around government circles. Six of Ming Dynasty founder Zhu Yuanzhang’s most trusted generals were Muslim, including Lan Yu who, in 1388, led a strong imperial Ming army out of the Great Wall and won a decisive victory over the Mongols in Mongolia, effectively ending the Mongol dream to re-conquer China. Additionally, the Yongle Emperor hired Zheng He, perhaps the most famous Chinese Muslim and China’s foremost explorer, to lead seven expeditions to the Indian Ocean, from 1405 and 1433. However, during the Ming Dynasty, new immigration to China from Muslim countries was restricted in an increasingly isolationist nation.
The Muslims in China who were descended from earlier immigration began to assimilate by speaking Chinese dialects 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,[4] also saw Nanjing become an important center of Islamic study.
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