Formations of Hui Muslims or China Muslims in China, founding Father of Hui Muslims is a Sayydi.
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Formations of Hui Muslims or China Muslims in China, founding Father of Hui Muslims is a Sayydi.
Hui Muslim is a majority muslim ethnic group along side with Uyghurs in china, there are about 30 millions muslims in china and nearly half of them is Hui muslims, they mostly resdies in North Western China, but also can be found with large numbers in Guangzhou, Yunnan, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi areas of China.
Hui muslim is not Chinese muslims, they are classified as a different ethnic group in China, as one of 56 ethnic groups of China. Even though thier mother languge is Chinese languge, they doesn't consider themselves as Chinese muslim (han chinese), they mostly call themselves as China Muslim instead of Chinese muslim in foreign countries to differentiate themselves from converted han Chinese Muslims, meaning that they are not Han Chinese (majority non-muslim people in China).
History of Hui muslims roots back to the time of prophet Muhammad RasulAllah, there are several sahabas was sent to Tang Empire and they were well welcomed by Tang Emperor, and they build most oldest mosque in Guangzhou, Islam spread from there little by little, however muslim population of China very low until Song Dynasty and Yuan Mongol Empire.
In 1070 under the leadership of Sayyd Amir Zubabir (a decedent of RasulAllah) about 20,000 thousand Central Asian Arab, Turk and Persian muslim were invited to Beijing area by Song Emperor to fight against nomadic Khitans, because Khitans (they were Turk-Mongol like people) trying to invade Song Empire, these 20,000 Central Asia muslim came as helping army against nomads and become top level governors in Song Empire, they were given high positions, many of them married with local Chinese women and thier population growing in large numbers, later Sayyd Amir called his these muslim groups as HuiHui people, and he become founding Father of modern Hui people (China Muslims).
These Muslims govened Guangdong, Yuannan, Fujian etc provinces in China, they spoke and keep thier Arab, Persian and Turkic languge and culture until Ming Empire. Population of Muslims in China increased incredibly during the time of Mongol Empire, many Central Asian Muslims, mainly Arab, Persian and Turks migrated by Mongols to China to govern Chinese land, Mongol Emperor Khubilai Khan divided whole China into 12 districts and 8 of them were ruled by Central Asian Muslims and they were given high privileges in Mongol Empire, so that they started to spread Islam in these Chinese provinces which they are ruling, they said that Chinese people living in darkness and we need to bring light of Islam to them.
Islam so widespread during the time of Mongol Empire in China that Muslim's population is around 4 million in 13-14 centuries in inner China, however most of them does not speak Chinese language at that time that they speaks Arab, Persian, Turk and Mongol language, also there are many Han Chinese muslims who accepted Islam in during the Mongol Empire's rule in China.
However, during the time of Chinese Ming Empire, Emperor Zhou Yuanzhang start to worry about these large number of alien non-Chinese speaking Muslim groups in inner China, he worried that one day they may make revolution against me, onverthrow me and then again they will rule Chinese people, so he made a persistent political compagin to assimilate these Muslims into Han Chinese chinese ethnics, by this policy, he demanded every Muslims in China must marry Chinese women or men and must speak Chinese languge, so many non-Chinese Muslims whose orinally came from Central Aisa, Persia and Middle East started to lose thier languge generation by generation, slowly thier languge fade away during the time of Ming Empire, they become totally Chinese speaking ethic groups, they also effected culturally to Chinese people that many Chineses also become Muslims in Ming Empire.
However later Jurjun nomadic people (Qing Empire) from northern invaded and overthrow Chinese Ming Empire and invaded whole China and Korea, even Vietnam. And Jurjuns forced many Chinese muslim people to revert back to buddish religon from Islam, because of this policy, large number of Chineses left Islam and become buddish Chinese again. There have been many Muslim advisers in Ming Empire, even stamp of some Ming Emprors were in Arabic letters, even some Ming Emperors preferred to have only Muslim advisers, and didn't allow non-Muslims to become his advisers.
Naqshband and Qadiri sufi tariqat started to spread in inner China to Hui Muslims with large waves in 17-18th century, specially by an Uyghur sufi Murshid named Afak Khoja, he also named as Khwāja Hidāyat Allāh, he is an Uyghur Sayydi (a decendent of RasulAllah) from Kashgar of Xinjiang Uyghur Province of modern China. He visited Hui and Salar Muslims in Xining, Hezhou in Gansu, Qinghai provinces and strated to spread Naqshband sufi tariqat among Hui people, the roots of Naqshband tariqat still standing firmly in these regions of modern China.
Wahabisim brought to China Hui Muslim in the end of 19th century by some Hui scholars and elite Hui pilgrimages who went to Hajj in Mekka, they bring many books of wahabi ideology and translated them into Chinese language, then they started to put doubts among Hui Muslims, they said that our former islamic religion is not correct, now we brought correct new Islam religion to you from Mekka, eventually this conflicts led to many years of Hui Muslim Sufi-Wahabi wars which killed tens of thousands of Hui people.
Islam was banned in China early and middle era of Chinese communist regime, about 40-50 years, Chinese government only started to allow Islam in 1980s and send many Hui muslim to Saudi Arabia to learn Islam as a cultural exchange with the government of Saudi Arabia, as part of Open Gate policy of Chinese government, hundreds, thousands of imams trained in Saudi Arabia, however, this policy caused the even more widespread of wahabisim and salafisim in China Muslims, specifically among Hui Muslim. Also many Hui Muslims studied fee-tuitions and with high salaries in Madina University of Saudi Arabia, and they become most furious advacoters of wahabisim and salafism among Hui peoples in China.
Link: https://www.nvrislam.net/index.php?j=eng&post=7442
Formations of Hui Muslims or China Muslims in China, founding Father of Hui Muslims is a Sayydi.
Hui Muslim is a majority muslim ethnic group along side with Uyghurs in china, there are about 30 millions muslims in china and nearly half of them is Hui muslims, they mostly resdies in North Western China, but also can be found with large numbers in Guangzhou, Yunnan, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi areas of China.
Hui muslim is not Chinese muslims, they are classified as a different ethnic group in China, as one of 56 ethnic groups of China. Even though thier mother languge is Chinese languge, they doesn't consider themselves as Chinese muslim (han chinese), they mostly call themselves as China Muslim instead of Chinese muslim in foreign countries to differentiate themselves from converted han Chinese Muslims, meaning that they are not Han Chinese (majority non-muslim people in China).
History of Hui muslims roots back to the time of prophet Muhammad RasulAllah, there are several sahabas was sent to Tang Empire and they were well welcomed by Tang Emperor, and they build most oldest mosque in Guangzhou, Islam spread from there little by little, however muslim population of China very low until Song Dynasty and Yuan Mongol Empire.
In 1070 under the leadership of Sayyd Amir Zubabir (a decedent of RasulAllah) about 20,000 thousand Central Asian Arab, Turk and Persian muslim were invited to Beijing area by Song Emperor to fight against nomadic Khitans, because Khitans (they were Turk-Mongol like people) trying to invade Song Empire, these 20,000 Central Asia muslim came as helping army against nomads and become top level governors in Song Empire, they were given high positions, many of them married with local Chinese women and thier population growing in large numbers, later Sayyd Amir called his these muslim groups as HuiHui people, and he become founding Father of modern Hui people (China Muslims).
These Muslims govened Guangdong, Yuannan, Fujian etc provinces in China, they spoke and keep thier Arab, Persian and Turkic languge and culture until Ming Empire. Population of Muslims in China increased incredibly during the time of Mongol Empire, many Central Asian Muslims, mainly Arab, Persian and Turks migrated by Mongols to China to govern Chinese land, Mongol Emperor Khubilai Khan divided whole China into 12 districts and 8 of them were ruled by Central Asian Muslims and they were given high privileges in Mongol Empire, so that they started to spread Islam in these Chinese provinces which they are ruling, they said that Chinese people living in darkness and we need to bring light of Islam to them.
Islam so widespread during the time of Mongol Empire in China that Muslim's population is around 4 million in 13-14 centuries in inner China, however most of them does not speak Chinese language at that time that they speaks Arab, Persian, Turk and Mongol language, also there are many Han Chinese muslims who accepted Islam in during the Mongol Empire's rule in China.
However, during the time of Chinese Ming Empire, Emperor Zhou Yuanzhang start to worry about these large number of alien non-Chinese speaking Muslim groups in inner China, he worried that one day they may make revolution against me, onverthrow me and then again they will rule Chinese people, so he made a persistent political compagin to assimilate these Muslims into Han Chinese chinese ethnics, by this policy, he demanded every Muslims in China must marry Chinese women or men and must speak Chinese languge, so many non-Chinese Muslims whose orinally came from Central Aisa, Persia and Middle East started to lose thier languge generation by generation, slowly thier languge fade away during the time of Ming Empire, they become totally Chinese speaking ethic groups, they also effected culturally to Chinese people that many Chineses also become Muslims in Ming Empire.
However later Jurjun nomadic people (Qing Empire) from northern invaded and overthrow Chinese Ming Empire and invaded whole China and Korea, even Vietnam. And Jurjuns forced many Chinese muslim people to revert back to buddish religon from Islam, because of this policy, large number of Chineses left Islam and become buddish Chinese again. There have been many Muslim advisers in Ming Empire, even stamp of some Ming Emprors were in Arabic letters, even some Ming Emperors preferred to have only Muslim advisers, and didn't allow non-Muslims to become his advisers.
Naqshband and Qadiri sufi tariqat started to spread in inner China to Hui Muslims with large waves in 17-18th century, specially by an Uyghur sufi Murshid named Afak Khoja, he also named as Khwāja Hidāyat Allāh, he is an Uyghur Sayydi (a decendent of RasulAllah) from Kashgar of Xinjiang Uyghur Province of modern China. He visited Hui and Salar Muslims in Xining, Hezhou in Gansu, Qinghai provinces and strated to spread Naqshband sufi tariqat among Hui people, the roots of Naqshband tariqat still standing firmly in these regions of modern China.
Wahabisim brought to China Hui Muslim in the end of 19th century by some Hui scholars and elite Hui pilgrimages who went to Hajj in Mekka, they bring many books of wahabi ideology and translated them into Chinese language, then they started to put doubts among Hui Muslims, they said that our former islamic religion is not correct, now we brought correct new Islam religion to you from Mekka, eventually this conflicts led to many years of Hui Muslim Sufi-Wahabi wars which killed tens of thousands of Hui people.
Islam was banned in China early and middle era of Chinese communist regime, about 40-50 years, Chinese government only started to allow Islam in 1980s and send many Hui muslim to Saudi Arabia to learn Islam as a cultural exchange with the government of Saudi Arabia, as part of Open Gate policy of Chinese government, hundreds, thousands of imams trained in Saudi Arabia, however, this policy caused the even more widespread of wahabisim and salafisim in China Muslims, specifically among Hui Muslim. Also many Hui Muslims studied fee-tuitions and with high salaries in Madina University of Saudi Arabia, and they become most furious advacoters of wahabisim and salafism among Hui peoples in China.
Link: https://www.nvrislam.net/index.php?j=eng&post=7442