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[28 May 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Books on Islam in China

By: Wang Daiyu

Here is a list of some books related to Islam in China and or Muslims in China. Please feel free to suggest books if something is not in this list.

Atwill, David G., The Chinese sultanate: Islam, ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in southwest China, 1856-1873 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005)
Ben-Dor Benite, Zvi,  The dao of Muhammad : a cultural history of Muslims in late imperial China (Cambridge: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center ; dist. by Harvard University Press, 2005)
Dillon, Michael, China’s Muslim Hui community: migration, settlement …

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[28 May 2010 | 2 Comments | ]
Islam in China Revisited

By: Razib Khan
According to figures from the Chinese census on the order of 2% of the population of the People’s Republic of China is likely to be Muslim in their religious identity. 2% may seem like a trivial fraction, but that number is between 20 and 30 million people. In other words if the Muslims of China were their own nation they would be as populous as Iraq. And though Muslims are a very small minority of the Chinese population, approximately 1/4 of the …