ISLAM OVER THE WORLD : PROFESSOR OF WEST IMPRESSED WITH CHINESE MUSLIM

Experts Islamic Studies, University of Hawaii, Professor James D Frankel had a lasting impression while visiting China. There, he discovered a unique experience of Chinese and Muslim.
"When people know that there are Muslims in China, most Chinese people want to know exactly how large the population of China," he said when giving public lectures on Chinese Islam at the University of San Diego, as quoted thedailyaztec.com, Monday (30/4 ).
Frankel said that while difficult to calculate the number of Muslims in China, but experts suspect there are more than 100 million Muslims in China. Of the 100 million, largely ethnic Hui, who have historically had a direct relationship with the Islamic and Chinese civilizations.
"How to distinguish between Muslims and Chinese were, Muslims do not eat pork. This is one reason why the ethnic Han, who constitute the majority of the Chinese population does not know much about Chinese Muslims, "he said.
Frankel revealed because not eat pork, Chinese Muslims rarely socialize with Han people, take an example, rarely visit the Chinese Muslims were Han tetanggannya, fearing that served food containing pork.
"The effect of that is despised Muslims were Han Chinese. Further bias began to emerge. When I was in Beijing, I took a cab from a mosque, a taxi was asked, 'What are you doing in the mosque? Why you are interested in the people in it, but they were strange people, "recalls Frankel.
China including Arab nations outside who know early Islamic. Teachings of Islam first arrived in China around the year 615 AD
Mentioned in the literature of history, Caliph Uthman ibn Affan assigned Sa'ad ibn Abi Waqqas to take the teachings of Islam to mainland China. Even some believe Saad died in China in 635 AD, and his tomb is known as Geys' Mazars.
He came in the imperial Yung Wei of the Tang Dynasty. The Emperor then ordered the construction of mosques or mosque Huaisheng Memorial in Canton, which is the first mosque in mainland China.
When the powerful Tang Dynasty, China is reaching the golden age, so easily spread the teachings of Islam and known Chinese society

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