MUSLIM IN CHINA

Kunming, Yunnan Province

Shadian, Yunnan Province


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Nanjing, Jiangsu Province


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Langzhong, Sichuan Province

Kashgar, Xinjiang Province

Lanzhou, Gansu Province
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Lanzhou, Gansu Province


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WOOD CARVING QURAN
(Kunming, Yunnan Province)
The Panthay Rebellion (1856–1873), known in Chinese sources as the Du Wenxiu Rebellion was a rebellion of the Muslim Hui people and other (non-Muslim) ethnic minorities against the Manchu rulers of the Qing Dynasty in southwestern Yunnan Province.
30 years after the end of the rebellion, two prominent imams of Kunming asked to engrave on wooden boards the Quran. The order was placed with non-Muslim artisans of Sichuan, the neighboring province, which were every morning before starting their work do their ablutions.
Today are locked at the top of one of the mosques in the capital of Yunnan's, 153 remaining wooden shelves. On these tablets, divided into two parts, the Quran is engraved in Chinese and Arabic.