Early Muslim Contacts with China
The Review of Religions, April 1992 The following are some notes on early contacts of Muslims with China read by Dr. M. Ishaq Khalil at the Conference on Islam and […]
Revealed: new evidence of China’s mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang
Xinjiang Guardian and Bellingcat investigation finds more than two dozen Islamic religious sites partly or completely demolished since 2016 Lily Kuo in Beijing Tue 7 May 2019 Keriya Aitika […]
Chinese official warns against creeping Islamisation
Reuters International This content was published on March 10, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Men talk on a street in China’s Linxia, Gansu province, home to a large population of ethnic […]
Islam, Ethnicity, and State Control in China
Authorities in Xinjiang have since May 2014 been waging a “war on terror” in response to mountingviolence in the region and elsewhere in China. Official blame for the violence has been placed onreligious extremists and separatists from the Turkic-speaking and predominately Muslim Uyghur minority native to Xinjiang, but rights groups […]
Uyghur photographer battles stereotypes with fascinating portraits
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Uyghur photographer wants to dispel stereotypes about Xinjiang. The Chinese province has become associated with Islamic terrorism. Kurbanjan Samat has taken more than 500 portraits. He hopes to […]
Islam in China: Was Hazrat Saad Ibn Abi Waqas (Sahabi) received warmly by Emperor Gazong?
The Review of Religions; by Fazal Ahmad: China is a huge nation of over one billion people in a country that spans most of Asia, over 3000 miles from West to East; in fact it is probably better to think of China as a continent in its own right. Being […]
Desert encroaches on Uighurs in China
The Taklamakan desert in the Xinjiang province of northwest China is expanding relentlessly. Swiss photographers Stéphanie Borcard and Nicolas Métraux document the gradual disappearance of Uighur culture. Most of the […]