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Chinese New Year – Year of the Tiger

Feb 15, 2010 5:39pm

Happy Chinese New Year to all the Chinese brothers and sisters. 恭喜发财 If the readers want to know how to greet Chinese people on this ocassion, here is link which can help you. http://blog.mangolanguages.com/2010/02/15/a-happy-chinese-new-year-at-mango-languages/ (Image Source: http://www.malaysiasite.nl/images/tigerchinese.gif) ...

Transmission of the flamethrower from Greece to China

Feb 7, 2010 10:40am

The flame thrower was invented in the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) who used it against the Arab Muslims. It was later adopted by the Muslims who transmitted it to China. The Chinese author Lin Yu explained in his book in 919 AD that it was acquired by the Chinese...

Muslims and Chinese Rocket Technology in the time of Kublai Khan

Jan 8, 2010 8:37am

While it is widely known that the Chinese were instrumental in inventing explosives and in advancing early rocket technology, it is less known that during the time of Kublai Khan Turkish Muslims were instrumental in helping the Mongols in conquering China and advancing this technology and building siege weapons. According...

Chinese pilgrims return home from Mecca

Dec 16, 2009 2:56pm

From the Xinhua news agency. Chinese pilgrims return home from Mecca YINCHUAN, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — A plane carrying 323 Chinese pilgrims landed safely at Hedong Airport of Yinchuan, northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Saturday afternoon. They are the first batch of Chinese...

Rumi’s Masnavi in Chinese

Dec 8, 2009 9:22pm

Finally Rumi’s Masnavi has been translated into Chinese. Work on other languages like Korean translation is still ongoing. The link is in Turkish, you can use a translation utility like Google Translation to view the page in English. ...

Islam in China wins Brass Cresent Awards and Facebook

Nov 28, 2009 6:13pm

The Islam in China Blog won the Brass Crescent Award for the best Muslim blog in the East and South East Asian Blog category. Thank you to the readers and Jazak’Allah for voting for the Islam in China Blog. To connect more with the readers I have created a Fan...

Eid Mubarak

Nov 26, 2009 8:07pm

Eid Mubarak to everyone and Happy Thanksgiving to the readers in USA. (Image Source: Astiak) ...

6th Brass Crescent Awards

Nov 24, 2009 10:04am

Voting for the 6th Brass Crescent Awards has started and just like last year, this blog has been nominated as the blog in the Asian Blogs category. Jazakallah for nominating this blog. You can vote for your favorite blog in this and other categories at the following URL: http://brasscrescent.org ...

“First Muslim Minority” Thinking considered harmful

Nov 21, 2009 9:25am

Sometimes I get the impression that all this discussion about fiqh of minority and Muslims living in non-Muslim lands is extremely short sighted especially in USA. It seems to be predicated on the unstated premise that Muslims living as minorities in non-Muslim majority countries is an unprecedented and new phenomenon...

Blog of a Chinese American Muslim

Nov 14, 2009 6:20am

Amir Khalid or Anke Jiang (蒋安可) is a Chinese American Muslim who blogs at “Allah is in China” (http://allahisinchina.wordpress.com). Here is an excerpt from one of his blog posts on Ramadan. I fasted today, tightening the notches of my belt from sunrise to sunset, abstaining from any food throughout the entire...