This book explores the long history in China of Chinese Muslims, known as the Hui people, and regarded as a minority, though in fact they are distinguished by religion rather than ethnicity.

Jianxiong Ma is Associate Professor in anthropology at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Oded Abt is a researcher and lecturer in Chinese social and religious history in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Hai College, Israel.

Jide Yao is Professor of Ethnology and the Director of both the Southwest Asia Institute and the Center of Iran Studies of Yunnan University, China.

Introduction: Hui communities from the Ming to the Qing, Jianxiong Ma
1. The Mosque and Scripture-hall Education, Jianxiong Ma and Jide Yao
2. Spiritual genealogies of Gansu: Chains of Transmission in the Jahriya and Khafiya turuq, Jonathan Lipman and Thomas Wide
3. Representation of Sufi Genealogy and Their Socio-Cultural Interaction in Modern Northwest China, Chang Chung-fu
4. Social Conflicts between New Teaching and Old Teaching Sufi Orders among the Salar (Xunhua County, Gansu Province) in the Eighteenth Century, Ma Zongbao
5. Hui Lineages in Taozhou and the Acculturation of Islam during the Qing Dynasty, Que Yue
6. Lineage and Succession of Islamic Studies in Yunnan, Ma Zhihong
7. Ming-Qing Huihui Genealogies and Changing Communal Memory: A Study of Qingzhou (Shandong), Huihui Jiapu, Ding Huiqian
8. A Hui Muslim Lineage in Southwest China: A Case Study of the Xiaba Ma Genealogy, Wang Jianping
9. Genealogy Compilation and Identity Formation: Southeast China Communities of Muslim Descent, Oded Abt