Muslim Chinese—the Hui in Rural Ningxia : : Internal Migration and Ethnoreligious Identification / / Xiaoming Wang.

The Hui are predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabicspeaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East. According to the 2010 census, the Hui are the largest Muslim group in China and its third largest ethnic minority with a total population of 10.6 million. Due to t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Islamkundliche Untersuchungen , 340
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Physical Description:1 online resource (220 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgements
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Who are the Hui: a historical review
  • Chapter 3. Ecological and labour migration in rural Ningxia
  • Chapter 4. Qingzhen and its changing values
  • Chapter 5. Fasting and Ramadan in an immigration area
  • Chapter 6. Perspectives on death and the afterlife
  • Chapter 7. Social and religious position of migrant women
  • Chapter 8. Conclusions
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography