MUSLIM MINORITIES IN CHINA
New Teaching or New Sect, which attacked the
the more traditionalist Hanafis known as
cult of saint-worship. In the 1860s and 70s
Gedimu (from the Arabic qadim, meaning
another Naqshbandi shaikh, Ma Hualong,
old). Though all Muslim groups were perse-
launched a major rebellion, which cut off the
cuted
Qing (Manchu) Empire from the northwest,
Revolution (1966–76), with at least one major
opening the way for rebellion of the Uighurs in
massacre of Hui in the wake of an uprising in
Xinjiang. In more recent times a Wahhabi-
Yunnan, state patronage of the Yihewanis per-
inspired reformist movement at the turn of the
sisted in the more relaxed climate that followed
twentieth century known as the Yihewani
the accession of Deng Xiaoping.
(from the Arabic ikhwan, meaning brother-
Mao
Zedong’s
Cultural
People’s Republic of China, the small
idolatrous. Such practices included the venera-
Muslim community on the island
tion of Sufi saints or the wearing of Chinese
has also built relations with
mourning dress. Under communist rule the
other groups on the Le
mainland.
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