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Muslim Transnationalism in Modern China

Debates on Hui Identity and Islamic Reform
  • Hale Eroğlu
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Hale Eroğlu explores how a group of key Hui figures navigated the challenges of the early twentieth century, offering a transnational intellectual history of Chinese Muslim thought.

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Hale Eroğlu is assistant professor of history at Boğaziçi University.

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Rian Thum, author of The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History:
The definitive account of how Chinese-speaking Muslims were transformed into an ethnic group called “Hui.” Eroğlu deftly traces Chinese Muslim intellectuals’ engagements not just with the various states that have held power in modern China but with other Muslim communities across Eurasia, including the Ahmadis, Kemalists, and Egyptian reformists. The result is a transformative contribution to our understanding of China and Islam in the twentieth century.

Jonathan Lipman, author of Familiar Strangers: A History of Muslims in Northwest China:
“Eroğlu reveals the remarkable diversity and transnational connections of reformist Sino-Muslim intellectuals in the twentieth century. Seeking a path to Islamic integrity and belonging in modern China, they turned to Kemalist Turkey, the Lahore Ahmadiyya of India, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, and the international socialist discourse of the 1950s, as well as Chinese nationalism. An imaginative, valuable book!

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, author of The Dao of Muhammad: A Cultural History of Muslims in Late Imperial China:
With great attention and precision, Eroğlu places and recasts China’s Sinophone Muslims on the global map of modernity. A must-read in transnational and modern Chinese history.


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Chinese Muslims and the Constitutional Movement
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The Ahmadi Message in China
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Chinese Muslims and Islamic Reform in Egypt
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Hui Intellectuals During the Era of Mao
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