HIST 2910 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Panthay Rebellion, Quran, Yaqub Beg
25 Feb 2017
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China has one of the largest muslim populations. In the qing dynasty, muslims had many mosques in the large cities. The uprisings that took place during this period were some of the costliest ones in all of history in terms of human lives lost. Islam in china has existed for a very long time. Contemporary home of focus for muslims in china. It is located in the west and is closer to the middle east. Many different muslim coups in china took place here. The most well-known route of the historical silk road ran through the territory from the east to its northwestern border. The territory came under the rule of the qing dynasty in the 18th century. Prophet muhammad: go in quest of knowledge, even unto china. There were two main groups of muslims in china: unassimilated. This group still stuck to muslim traditions like clothing and other ways of life. They continued living in the border regions.
