How China used to be ruled by the Muslims
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Embark on a fascinating journey through history to discover the profound impact of Islam in China, from the early days of the Tang Dynasty to the establishment of a significant Muslim presence under the Yuan Dynasty and beyond.
This video explores the arrival of Muslim merchants in China during the mid-600s, the construction of the Huaisheng Mosque in Guangzhou, and the complex interactions between the expanding Muslim Caliphate and the Chinese Empire.
Witness the pivotal moments, including the Battle of Talas and the An Lushan Rebellion, that shaped the course of Islamic influence in China. Delve into the role of Muslims during the Yuan Dynasty, their contributions to Chinese society, architecture, and science, and the challenges they faced.
Discover how the Mongol Empire's policies towards Muslims sparked resistance, leading to the integration of Muslims into the fabric of Chinese society under the Ming Dynasty.
Join us as we uncover the legacy of Islam in China, highlighting the enduring presence of the Hui people and other Muslim communities, and the spread of Islam to Southeast Asia through Chinese Muslim scholars and merchants.
The state religion of the Tang Dynasty was Buddhism, the state religion of the Yuan and Ming dynasties was Taoism, and the state religion of the Qing Dynasty was Tibetan Buddhism. When did Muslims rule China? How come I've never heard of it? Just because some Muslims became officials?
他这个频道就是宣传伊斯兰的频道。不要指望实事求是，一切为了宣传和流量。
Amazing how sailors in 7th century reached from middle east to china. crossing arabian sea, bay of bengal, andaman sea, straight of malacca, south china sea. wow, just incredible!
You are correct: it is THE PAST!!!
@@Rotebuehl1 there would be no present without the past, white boy
And the famous jendral is cheng ho, he is a mouslim from ming dynasty
"The 100 character eulogy that blogging theology loves to share on his channel"... haha
Thats what brought me here!
Thank you for shedding light on the glorious Muslim past in an age of misinformation and Islamophobia against Muslims. May Allah bless you more
Full of misinformation. China as a whole was never ruled by Islamic Kings only parts were ruled !! There was Tibet, Mongolia which was ruled by Buddhist almost entirely except during Genghis Khan. Islamophobia against Muslims, oh really? If you don't run about shouting name of your god and lynching and stabbing people in Europe for a start may be people might tolerate the 7th century cult!!
Settle down, Islamic empires caused allot of atrocities during their time. Especially the Ottoman Empire.
@@TrooperDan_262and Christian empire ? Nothing 😆
Because you are biased
@@Merguez40006 Christian teaching doesn’t teach to kill, Islam was spread by the sword during your prophets time. Jesus never shed blood in the name of God during his time on earth. Your prophet did and so did his followers.
@@TrooperDan_262 so crusaders and inquisition , sir ?
As one of the millions of descendants of the Ming royal family, I found it quite fasinating to hear that the first Ming emperror wrote The Hundred-word Eulogy.
China has never been predominantly ruled by Muslims. However, there are instances in Chinese history where Muslim leaders or groups had significant influence.
Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368): The Yuan dynasty, established by the Mongol Empire under Kublai Khan, saw significant Muslim influence. The Mongols employed Central Asian Muslims in various administrative roles. This influence was more about the Mongol's pragmatic approach to governance rather than a widespread Islamic rule over China.
Ming Dynasty (1368-1644): During the Ming dynasty, several Muslim generals played prominent roles in the military. The most famous among them was Zheng He, a Hui Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral, who led seven major expeditions to the western oceans (South East Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa).
Qing Dynasty (1644-1912): The Qing dynasty saw some Muslim rebellions, most notably the Dungan Revolt (1862-1877) and the Panthay Rebellion (1856-1873), which were not aimed at establishing a Muslim rule but were more in response to local grievances.
In modern China, Muslims are a minority, with the largest groups being the Hui and Uighurs. While there have been influential Muslim figures in Chinese history, the political governance of China has predominantly been under non-Muslim rulers.
Yes. You are accurate in history detail. The title of the video is so misleading.
China never be rule by Muslim. China are ancient Civilization. Never will have any dominance Religion ruling China.
You are correct!
@MaYn-ig3rl I thought u guys are not allowed to drink 😂
Heard of Amir taimur whose area you are claiming as yours east Turkmenistan. He died because of illness or else😢😢😢
@@Musa03nheard of Amir taimur
Thanks!
Wow, thank you so much!
As always great job ya Akhi
May I say your pronunciation of the turkic and other names are on point
Well done ya Akhi❤
Fantastic, I love every video of yours.. Full of info about Muslims & islam.. Keep it up bro
Please brother I want a detailed video on the mongol vs muslim, ain e jalut war, the convertion of taimur,
and the emerging of ottoman sultanate and caliphate..
Mash allah may allah give you baraqa and increase your knowledge...
I can't believe I just found this channel now! What amazing videos!!!
Thank you for your efforts for bringing such quality content🎉
This is quite informative piece. Keep up the Good Work.
The history of Islam in China is truly fascinating.
There was a Chinese emperor who converted to Islam at the end of his life, namely the emperor "Zhengde/Wuzong" (the 11th emperor of Ming). The source of information from the notes of Ali Akbar Kețat, a traveler from Bukhara who often called himself "qalandar" (dervish), in chapters 2, 8, and 15 of Keţây-nāma, his travel notes to China which were completed in Istanbul in 1516. This note was confirmed by Na Jufeng, a Muslim historian who graduated from Nanjing University in a paper entitled "Ming Wuzong Hujiao Xinyang Kao" (Exploring the Islam of Emperor Ming Wuzong) published in the journal Shijie Zongjiao Yanjiu (Studies in World Religions) volume 02 in 2012.
There are no evidence that Emperor Zhengde converted to Islam. However he employed many of them to serve in the Imperial Court. A travelogue known as Khataynameh was written by the Central Asian merchant by the name of Ali Akbar Khata'i, recorded that there was a grand mosque in Beijing and the Emperor used to piously practice the religion. But that was more of a local myth among Hui Muslims rather than fact.
@@MrLantean myth? historical artifact is myth to you all on a sudden! Do you have evidences to back your claim?
Ma sha Allah, ma sha Allah!
What a beautiful episode!
Thank you very much, Omar, for all the effort and research you had put into this.
Best part of all: the original city renamed Beijing was designed by a Muslim!
China will Muslim again
Beijing is a city with over 2000years history. how can you say this stupid word
@LyuChen94
Regardless... It may have been rebuilt based on a new blueprint. Many cities in the world have been repeatedly rebuilt on layers upon layers from previous periods.
Asalamu Alaykum Omar, do you have reading recommendations? I really enjoy historical reading, especially Islamic history. Also I love the channel, very enjoyable content JazakAllah khayer.
اَلسَّــــــــــــــــلاَمْ عَلَيْـــــــــــــــكُمْ وَ رَحْمَـــــةُ اللہِ وَ بَــــــــرَكَـــــــاْتُهُ
و عليكم السلام و رحمة الله و بركاته
وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله
Can you make a video of explaining the muslim conquest in Spain, France, Italy, fraxinetum and the balkans. Thank you
From river to the sea Palestine 🇵🇸 will be free 🇵🇸. 🇵🇸
Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest...
keep dreaming.
a "Palestine" that never existed ever as an independent country, now these so called Arab Muslims want even more land to colonise.
Arabs are colonisers and invaders that came from the Arabian Peninsula.
majority of the Middle East is only Arab and Islamic because of conquests and Islamisation.
No never
@@Albania000-l9i jude albananaian
Forget about it. Palestine noise is just dust. Making noise online won't make it legitimate. Just use your energy to remove your poverty. The owners of land came back and the foreigners who are Muslims will ultimately be expelled back to Arabia where they belong
Free from arab invaders?
I like your work in this channel
That is a wrong understanding of Chinese history. None of the Chinese Dynasties were Muslim. Muslim controlled areas were their own countries back in history.
True. There was never a Chinese Emperor ever become a Muslim or a Muslim dynasty on the Imperial Throne. There are regions in China where the Muslims are majority but they lived in peace in accordance with Chinese legal system.
This is beautiful information mushallah thank you brother.
Chinese Islamic history is not talked about enough
Love these videos. Would you be able to make a video someday about Admiral Zheng He. BarakAllahu Feek
Zheng He had always been a Buddhist. His hand-copied Buddhist scriptures were sold at a very high price at Sotheby's auction house a few years ago. Muslims forge history every day
What a great Video bro. May Allah bless you an your work.
Selam from Germany
Allahumma salli ala muhammad Ya rabbi salli alaihi wa sallim. So united from the beginning of the previous Muslims Until the end of the world And after that Akhirat ❤
there is a lot of old mosque in china
Truly, there is no other religion or "way of life" that can come anywhere close to the eternal beauty of Islam!
I really wish people could put their unfair preconceptions and biases aside just long enough to learn the truth about this absolutely fascinating religion!!
Lol no, just no
@TheSarinaide lol yes, just yes! You obviously have never opened up a Qur'an so you saying "no, just no" and laughing means absolutely nothing! Your ignorance is showing .... either that or your logic centre needs a system reset or your just a butt hurt liar!
As you don`t correctly identifiy the Anxi province (which is now called Xinjiang) as the territory of Tang dynasty, it seems really crazy that the Chinese send their troops thousands of miles away and rivaled the Arabs at the boundary of their country.
Fajr Zuhr Asar Maghrib Isha and Witr Namaz
Allahu Akbar Allah is the greatest....
Allahumma Barik 'Alayh, Amin
JazakAllahu Khayra, Amin
Beautiful, Ma Sha Allah Tabarak Allah
Enlightening insights about the history of Islam and china
Thanks for the great work 👍❤️
Thanks for informing
Thank you for all this informative, amazing, entertaining information. I really love your work. Hope more people see this!
Thanks
Wow thank you so much 😅
Man thank you so much for making the video ❤
Yo bro can you drop where you got these historical information from? So I can read it very interesting stuff.
The title is completely nonsensical
China was never "used to be ruled by the Muslims". Period.
Very informative video about how Islam and Muslim started and grew in China. I love reading history of China and still trying to find more historical facts on the connections of the Malay and the Hui. JazakaAllah. Tq Bro Omaq.
it's broaden my mind, absolutely a lot... it's a nice escaped after tired with overwhelmed modern Muslim problem we face nowadays
Wow masha Allah excellent history of Muslim China a pleasure to learn about it thank you Salam
Came here from brother Bobby ❤ great job jazakallah
The most unusual among the latter is the sinified Turkic Muslim eunuch Admiral Zheng He , who commanded Chengzu's great fleets on voyages into the Indian Ocean throughout much of the Yongle reign .
Mote, F. W. (1999). Imperial China, 900-1800. United Kingdom: Harvard University Press. p. 603.
9:15
Not only brother Paul from blogging theology, but others like me too love to share the eulogy.
Alhamdulillah for the knowledge and valuable information.
Yes bro. Even the Islamic kingdom of Champa in present day Vietnam had their Islam roots coming partly from the north i.e. those from the arab persian muslim traders who escaped the massacre in Guangzhou in the 9th century ad.
Ewwww dont group us vietnamese with Muslim, get tf outta here, this nation is Christian and Buddhism only.
I'm disappointed
I clicked on this video expecting to learn about a secret Muslim Chinese dynasty or something
Turns out it's just clickbait
我是穆斯林。中国政府现在不喜欢伊斯兰教，可是imam mehdi会来，每个人会成为穆斯林 inshallah.
兄弟，你说的很对。InshaALLAH
You hui Muslim ?
不可能 😂
在中国，信仰伊斯兰教的都是穷地方！除了穆斯林，没人会对伊斯兰教感兴趣！
呸
Brother, I really like your effort and appreciate your knowledge level.
our brothers and sisters never stopped, may Allah be pleased with them Ameen, how inspiring. so interesting thank you for making these videos my brother
I would't go as far as saying China was ruled by Muslims. The Mongo Yuan dynasty was very tolerant in terms of religion and Muslims occupied some high ranking positions. They were conquered by the Mongols before the Chinese were conquered by the Mongols so Mongols trusted them more. The official religion of the Mongols were Tibetan Buddhism though so Tibetans enjoyed higher status, also in the Qing Manchu dynasty from 1640s-1911.
These facts don't fit the muslim agenda. I will ignore it and try to erase what you said from my memory.
LONG LIVE MUSLIM CHINA SUBHANNALAH
@@AJ5 Typical brainwashing
well several provenances were,
The production of this video has mastered the Muslim traffic password.😂
Loved you bro jazakallah Khair keep it up
Why tf i am not subscribed yet?
thank you, finally you understand, proving that Islam is not a state, not a nation, not a tribe, not genetics, not clothes, not a style of speaking, not even power. only universal truths that are normal healthy and bring peace to life from various trials. Some people maybe sell them cheaply.
The Yuan Dynasty was about to have a Muslims leader! Please make a video about it.
Yuan dynasty was ruled by Buddhists. Kublai Khan was a grandson of Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan converted to the Buddhism. All of his successors were also Buddhists. Btw, They also used Confuanist governing system.
Yuan dynasty never had a Muslim ruler. But There were some Persian Muslim generals and governors in Yuan dynasty.
@@worlddata8982 It was meant to have Muslim rule. Read about Ananda (King of Anxi).
@@Informational_ComparisonsWhat does it mean? He is just one of many princes and has no absolute power.
@@user-qw2dy8x780 He was extremely influential!
In ancient China all religions were allowed to be practiced as long as they don't encroach on the ruling power / political powers of the emperor. It's the same story in the early stages of Mongol empire
China was never ruled by Muslim but some gouvernor of province were Muslim
haha, nice to see fake history videos, without offense, a lot of interesting ideas and logics
Zheng HE, great admiral of Ming Dynasty, was a Muslim
No, that is the Hui people's random identification of their ancestors.
He was arrested at the age of 7 and had his penis cut off at the age of 11
He is a famous Buddhist. In 2015, his copy of the Buddhist scriptures was sold at Sotheby's for $14 million. Muslims only falsify history.
Kara-Khanid Khanate as well!
The Karakhanids were not Chinese. They were Karluk Turks.
Surprising the Han majority didn’t convert but allowed Muslims to exist among them. The culture has a lot of religious tolerance while being deeply rooted in their own traditions. They weren’t Muslims but saw them as allies. Makes you think why the Christian’s do not have such tolerance, they are people of the book as well but they choose to discriminate against Muslims the most.
Habibi please don’t shave your beard, beautiful video and very fascinating facts, thanks for your coverage❤
Assalamu aleykum bro! Bro, can't you do A RELIABLE VIDEO ABOUT AMIR TEMUR and SULTAN BAYEZIT? But consider not be unfair and try to be polite towards both sides!! Please!
This video is unfortunately misleading and wrong on multiple points. (Completely wrong). The Chinese was the continent where traders set out to meet (it was the silk road back then and China was the expo and convention hub during the era.) Even long BEFORE the time of the Ottoman era, the Chinese are known to be kind and accepting. Even Guangzhou had an area where one of the officials gave a muslim friendly area in the city and even built structures as part of the hospitable nature of the Chinese. how does any of this suddenly become "ruled by muslims"? The closest country that was RULED and conquered by the Muslims is india, because india lost every skirmish and had to constantly run south.
No they had Muslim rulers as well. They were Arabs but Chinese converts
@@thedungeon9992 No, they had not. Please name me one Muslim emperor of China.
@@dannywong4002 governors not emperors, clearly you didnt wach the video
@@sentientglitch I did watch the video but the title is misleading. Governors are not rulers, so how can you say they ruled China? At best they are governors of just a few areas. They were just civil servants. Please use the correct term
@@dannywong4002 well they were ruled by Muslims in the form of Governors and generals, not to mention larag and significant parts of china was controled by muslims at the highest level;
During the Umayyad Caliphate, Qutayba Ibn Muslim reached and shortly took parts until and including the Provence of Gansu from about 715-717, [Source: Shalih Mahdi Ammash, 1978] and Eastern coastal provinces were controlled by Muslim during the Ispah rebellion, especially under Nuwana from February 1362- July 1366 (+ years of minor shia rule before him). [Source: Xu Xiaowang, General History of Fujian, 2006].
There also may be other events with muslim rulers I am unaware of.
Heres something you may find interesting. :)
The name of my country has nothing to do with the interesting and delicious bird ''turkey''......
.....but the name of the bird does have a connection with the name of my country, let me explain. :)
Name of my country has always been Türkiye, it's been known as such since around the 1200's.
The name it self has a suffix, '' -iye '', that is Turk-iye, where the -iye suffix means 'land of/belonging to',
just like the Latin suffix of '' -ia '', which exists in such country names like
Austr-ia, Austral-ia, Latv-ia, Roman-ia etc etc again meaning 'land of/belonging to'.
Many would remember the country Czechoslovak-ia which changed it's name to Czech Republic and a few years ago changed that to Czechia (that is Czech-ia).
The Latin suffix -ia probably originates from Turkish -iye as Turkish is much older, ancient Turkish been over ten thousand years old.
Spelled in different languages in different ways to phonetically resemble '' Türkiye ''
we got various spellings like;
Turquía (in Spanish),
Turchia (in Italian),
Turquie (in French) and
Turkey (in English)
all trying to resemble the pronounciation of ''Turk-ia'' thus Turkiye.
Mind you this was way before the animal we currently know as 'turkey'' was found by the europeans when they explored the north americas. The bird was first sent to europe from north americas in the year 1519, so up until that point there was no bird named 'turkey'....
...they came across the bird and thought it was a specie of the fowl/chicken they had been buying from the country of Turkiye at the time, so they named the bird ''Turkey Fowl'' meaning ''Turkish Chicken''.....
....just like how a dog breed is known as German Shepherd (because it's from Germany), American Bulldog, British Terrier, Greek Harehound etc etc.
In time you don't get to call the Greek Harehound as simply as ''Greek''; or you don't call the British Terrier as ''British''; or the German Shepherd as ''German'', but in time the Turkish Fowl started to be called just ''Turkey'' and later ''turkey'', and has been going on for hundreds of years.
Now in modern times, this is causing confusion, especially when we have people across the world unable to point to their own country on the map, this ''confusion over the naming'' needed to be corrected.
So my country decided to rectify this confusion that has been going on for so long and corrected the name to Türkiye, which it always was. Basically we didn't change the name of our country, we changed the mistake made in the English language. : )
So, there's some tid bit information for you to have a great day, if you read upto this point you have a great night too, ohh just have a wonderfull life. : )
Best wishes. ;)
Very Informative. Thank you.
You forgot telling about Karluk Turks, who helped Muslims at the battle of Talas.
Islam grew under the mongols. Most of the Mongols converted to islam.
9 out of 13 Mongol ethnicities are Buddhists including Mongolians. It was the Turks who converted to the Islam.
Stop coping dude. It was the Tatars and many other Turkic tribes. Most Mongolian still Buddhist to these days
i doubt you can say china was ruled by muslims or islam it was just partial to the majority
Would you be willing to make a video of the Armenian "genocide" and what really happened? I know it's a convtroversial and difficult topic but it'd be great if you could shed some light on it in a well summarized video with sources. Thank you.
What about jammu muslims genocide
@@amishsurani4765 They took revenge by targetting or converting Gilgiti, Poonch and Bengali Hindus
@@zamindar0001 The indian government led by modi is a hindutvadi government now. In the states of India where the bjp is strong the non hindus and especially the muslims become a target. They would gladly bring the law of manusmriti and hindu law in the country.
@@zamindar0001 I am not a muslim but I have respect for muslims. I belong to the jatt community as well.
I don’t want to seem condescending I’m only trying to help. We are strongly encouraged to grow the beard in Islam
This video was shot like 4 months ago. I used the wrong setting on my trimmer lol. Beard is back, don't worry.
Sorry to burst all your Muslim bubbles but we Chinese were just more acceptant to other religions. There were hardly any evidence suggesting Ming rulers were Muslims, and the whole "no mentioning pig and no pork" thing many of you are talking about in the comment section? Well that's just urban myth. We have record of Ming imperial recipes and menus, and they include stewed ham almost daily.
I think you’re right. Because Chinese people eat anything🤢 I literally saw a Chinese women eat an endangered salamander🤢🤢
I lived in China for 12 years and visited many mosques and made many Muslim friends. Your video is excellent and covers the significant developments very succinctly, especially as there are many, many different Muslim ethnic groups.
I hope you will do a video on Islam under the Manchu Qing Dynasty, especially on the Nian and other Muslim rebellions of the 19th century. This will help people understand what has been happening to the Uyghurs during our time. Salaam.
"Omar" lied about Tani Yutaka past in Malaysia ...
Tani didn't traget "Chinese gangs" ...he and his Malay Muslims gang targeted rich Chinese merchants .
Yup, there was still a muslim sultanate in the Yunnan province in the 19th century whose king was Sultan Sulaiman. They rebelled against Beijing and finally put down. Ive read about it more than 20 years ago and forgot the details.
Thank you for the historical information.
3:19 Him as well!!!! Curses be on him!!!!! He’s a no-life!
SubhanAllah ☝🏻🌹
this might be the most obsessed with islam white dude i ever seen lol weird. anyoway nice turkiye video you made before, respect from turkiye. can you please do one with and about göktürk
Muslim aren’t all Arabs 😂
You seams to be kemalist
The title is so misleading
Who is watching this now
amazing video
How many takes did 9:30 take lmao
Excellent channel. بہت عمدہ چینل
What happened with your beard 😭
Assalamualaikum, there were some leaders of China (From Ming Dynasty) have been Muslims by accounts of some scholars, but it was in Private and they did not express their religion. The founder of the dynasty, the Hong Gwu emperor. And his descendent jean- der emperor who was in the 16th century.
Hong Gwu built mosques around his kingdom, he also has a poem in honor of the Prophet, where the way he talked about the prophet, feels like a Muslim is talking! In fact, we know that his Wife, many of his family members and his trusted generals were Muslims.
Jean- Der emperor was witnessing praying in the mosque in Beijing, banned swine consumption, commissioned artifacts with Islamic inscriptions, and he also had a penchant for Muslim ladies. Add to that his waging successful campaigns against the Portuguese in defense of his Malaya Muslim ally, where he executed numerous captured Portuguese statesmen in revenge for committing atrocities against the Melaka sultanate
So we can say that China had at least some emperors who were Muslims!
Hahaha, history creator... Hongwu was a monk bro, stop finding other people ancestor for your own glory... Jean der wasnt Muslim he just curious about every outside religion... Seriously stop thinking the Han Chinese are stupid by let u all alter our history
Muslims sure love to twist and making their own version history.
You should do Muslim history in Tibet.
Tibet and China never had a Muslim rule.
@@worlddata8982 No but how it got there.
@@worlddata8982 Tibetian Empire allied with Umayyad Caliphate and Abbasid Caliphate.
Not much to say, other than brief alliances and Khaches (apparently descendants of Kashmiri Muslim merchants).
Please do a video on the Malmuks and expulsion of the Mongols
Mashahallah
Assinu Lana Wal Arab Lana, Wal Hindu Lana, Wal Kullu Lana!
This China is ours, that Arab is ours! This Hind is ours, the world is ours!
-Allama Iqbal
Shout out to Blogging theology
Alhamdulillah
Allahuakbar, what a video!
Bismillah Hir rahman nir raheem, Rabbanaa wa laa tuhammilnaa maa laa taaqata lanaa bih wa fu Anna wagfir lana warhamnaa anta mawlana fansurnaa alal qawmil kaafireen...
Admiral Zheng ho is a muslim in that time he leads the biggest navy armada in the world ever have
He later converted to Buddhism
@@he-yi-jie-you-wei-you-bao-fu of courssse
So true what you say 😆
And he is a enuch
Zhenghe despite being muslim, he is an eunuch and also worshiped Mazu the Sea Goddess. So according to Islam he comit Syirik/Musyrik. But no problem because he is Chinese...LOL
Wrong, China was part of Tartaria.
Islam evolved from Venus worship, the Ishtar goddess. (Ishmaelites)
Crescent and Star was Venus and Mercury. Venus the arc/ark and Mercury the messenger/prophet
Hi what you are mentioning is VERY interesting. Can you share more what is this about and who is Tartaria to China?
And i find that the video has quite a few false and misleading information.
You got no idea what your talking about
Wrong ! The Cresent moon symbol was adopted by the ottomans not by the main founders of Islam.
LOL
ISLAM WILL TAKE US TO PARADISE ...
Farghana valley is heart of Central Asia (Mawerennahr)
Must change the lighter sound.
feel like you could have mentioned the Ma family ruling large swaths of China during the early 1900s
God us all Muslims
What he mean ruled by Muslim is not being king but more power like ministers and generals