Élisabeth Allès, Musulmans de Chine. Une anthropologie des Hui du Henan

THE SURVIVAL of Islam in China as a decidedly minority religion for more than one thousand years is, as the anthropologist lisabeth Alls notes, astonishing. Even more remarkable is that Muslims have managed to sustain their religious practices and beliefs even in the interior of China. Muslims living along the northwestern frontiers and in the southeastern ports maintained relations with their co-religionists from Central Asia and from Persia and the Arab world respectively. The Muslims of Henan, the group that Dr Alls has studied, are part of the inland Hui, or Chinese Muslims, a community that persists as a distinct entity, despite occasional conflicts with its Han, or ethnic Chinese, neighbors over the centuries

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