{"id":747,"date":"2009-10-25T00:29:38","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mohamediqbalp.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/25\/islam-in-china-2\/"},"modified":"2009-10-25T00:29:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T18:59:38","slug":"islam-in-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/islam-in-china-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam In China 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"padding-left:20px;padding-right:15px;display:block;\">Uthman,<br \/>\nthe 3rd Caliph(the leader of the Islamic nation\/s) dispatched a<br \/>\ndelegation to China in 29 AH inviting the Emperor to embrace Islam.<br \/>\nPrior to this Islam reached China by way of the Silk Route (land and<br \/>\nsea trading route)<br \/>\nMuslims virtually dominated the import\/export business in China during<br \/>\nSung Dynasty (960 &#8211; 1279 CE). The office of Director General of<br \/>\nShipping was consistently held by a Muslims during this period. During<br \/>\nthe Ming Dynasty <br \/>\n(1368 &#8211; 1644 CE), a period considered to be the golden age of Islam in<br \/>\nChina, Muslims fully integrated into Han society by adopting their name<br \/>\nand some customs while retaining their Islamic mode of dress and<br \/>\ndietary restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>Currently there are 22 million Chinese Muslims according to the 2009 Pew Forum Report. <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/8\/7327081_f67bf70df0.jpg\" class=\"highslide\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click the image to open in full size.\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/8\/7327081_f67bf70df0.jpg\" alt=\"Click the image to open in full size.\" class=\"tcattdimgresizer\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/pictures\/galleries\/Stories\/633583872136093750\/Previews\/34eid0930.JPG\" class=\"highslide\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click the image to open in full size.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/resources\/pictures\/galleries\/Stories\/633583872136093750\/Previews\/34eid0930.JPG\" alt=\"Click the image to open in full size.\" class=\"tcattdimgresizer\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.traveladventures.org\/continents\/asia\/images\/xining-mosque01.jpg\" class=\"highslide\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click the image to open in full size.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.traveladventures.org\/continents\/asia\/images\/xining-mosque01.jpg\" alt=\"Click the image to open in full size.\" class=\"tcattdimgresizer\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nXinign Masjid in China<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uthman, the 3rd Caliph(the leader of the Islamic nation\/s) dispatched a delegation to China in 29 AH inviting the Emperor to embrace Islam. Prior to this Islam reached China by way of the Silk Route (land and sea trading route) Muslims virtually dominated the import\/export business in China during Sung Dynasty (960 &#8211; 1279 CE).&hellip; <br \/> <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/10\/25\/islam-in-china-2\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venusimportexport.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}