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MING SINICIZATION AND QING RE-ISLAMIZATION
Table of Contents
1. Introduction    3
2. The Decline of Yuan Dynasty and the Founding of Ming Dynasty    3
3. Reasons that drive Ming to Sinicize the Muslims    4
4. Measures used by Han to Sinicize the Muslims    4
5. Impact of the Sinicization policy    5
6. The Way Muslims work to become more Islamic    6
7. Conclusion    7
References    8
1. Introduction
Islam is not a new religion in China. Islam goes way back to Tang dynasty in China. As suggested by Gladney (2015), Islam was first introduced in China when an embassy sent by the third Caliph of Islam in 651 AD. Then a delegation was sent to Chinese emperor. The Tang emperor first received the envoy and ordered the construction of Memorial mosque in Canton, which is the first mosque of the country built in memory of Prophet Mohammad.
As noted by Petersen (2017), the Tang dynasty was multicultural, which had significant and widespread contacts with central Asia and Western Asia, which introduced Islam to the country. Persians and Arabs merchants were the first Muslims to settled in China. In 751 ADS, after the defeat of Tang Dynasty in the battle of Talas River, alliance was formed between Tang and Abbasid led to the prominent establishment of Islam in China (Tan, 2009).
2. The Decline of Yuan Dynasty and the Founding of Ming Dynasty
    As suggested by Lee and Chan (2016), the Ming dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644 AD. Before Ming dynasty, there was Mongol-led Yuan dynasty in which discrimination against Hans Chinese was very frequent. This results into rebellion and revolt among the people. Demise of the Yuan results is shattering of agriculture and economy along the side of yellow river. This led to the broke out of massive revolt.
Ming dynasty was founded by emperor Taizu who was born into poverty and spent his entire youth wandering the country after loosing parents in natural disaster. He became the monk and faced the hardship of three years along with the common people. His monastery was destroyed by the army to break out local revolt. In 1352 AD, Taizu joined a rebel group, which was associated with the white lotus society and achieve the significant position in rebel group.
As suggested by Guida (2018), white lotus society were believer of cultural and religious tradition of Buddhism, and Zoroastrianism. They were defender of Confucianism and neo-Confucianism, which was predominate in the Han Chinese population. He invaded the city of Nanjing successfully and used it to make warlord furious. He later makes it his capital. Taizu strengthen his power in south by removal of his arch enemy in battle of Lake Poyang in 1363. His main enemy was the Mongolian rulers of the Yuan empire. Taizu captured Beijing in 1368 by destroying palaces and announced the Ming dynasty.
    As mentioned by Fan and Feng (2019), Emperor Taizu’s emperor had built his empire based on the military discipline and respect the authority with utmost sense of justice. He was brutal with his discipline. If his officials failed to comply and kneel before him or else, they were beaten. Taizu was very suspicious ruler who had done secret policing to kill the betrayal and conspiracies at the roots. In 1380 AD he had started internal execution, which last for fourteen years resulting in 30,000 executions. His paranoia resulted in killing of another 70,000 government officials (Tan, 2009).
3. Reasons that drive Ming to Sinicize the Muslims
    Sinicization is a process, in which non-Chinese societies get affected by the Chinese culture mainly Hans culture, family, norm and ethnicity. As mentioned by Zhao (2016), Ming dynasty was the time when Islam was spread in China. After the lost of war, many Mongol and Muslims stayed back in China. After Taizu established his kingdom, he adopted tolerated and friendly relationship towards Islam. He wrote the Eulogy praising Islam. He praises the Prophet virtues.
Zheng He, contributed to the development of the Islam in the Ming dynasty. He reestablished the mosque in Nanjing. He voyages to western world and meet Islamic people. In Ming dynasty, the manifestation of Islam occurs other areas such as mosque education. The Chinese translation of Islamic classics and the construction of Islam mosques occur. Construction of the mosques were...