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1. History of Islam in Vietnam
[By
http://www.angelfire.com/vt/vietnamesemuslims/hstry.html]
The exact dates of Islam's spread in
Indo-China is not known for certain. However, generally speaking, Islam
arrived in Indo-China before it reached China during the Tang Dynasty
(618-907). It was introduced by merchants from the Muslim world who sailed
along the coastal cities. The following is a map and a quote from "Arab
Seafaring" by George F. Hourani:  |
2.Islam in Vietnam
[By
Wikipedia]
Islam in Vietnam is primarily the religion of
the Cham people, a minority ethnic group related to Malays; however, roughly
one-third of the Muslims in Vietnam are of other ethnic groups. However,
there is a community describing themselves of mixed ethnic origins (Cham,
Khmer, Malay, Minang, Viet, Chinese and Arab), who practice Islam and are
also known as Cham, or Cham Muslims, around the region of Chau Doc in the
Southwest. |
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3.Islam’s Journey Into Southeast
Asia
[By
IslamOnline(IOL)]
Defined as the region of land between India to
the west, China to the north, and the Pacific Ocean to the east, Southeast
Asia today comprises 10 countries: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand (Siam), and Vietnam. |
4. Muslims of Vietnam
[By
Tan Jo Hann, Malaysian writer
]
Ho Chi Minh City--More than 1,000 years ago, the first Vietnamese
embraced Islam and charted the religion's unique path into this Indo chinese
country. Today Vietnamese Muslims claims that there are about 65,000 Muslims
in Southern Vietnam, with at least 5,000 believers living in Ho Chi Minh
City alone. There are about 15 mosques and Muslim places of worship in the
capital city with at least 3 of them frequented by Muslims from Malaysia,
Indonesia, India and Pakistan respectively. |
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5. Vietnam-Asia
[By
Strategic Network]
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MUSLIM POPULATION IN
JAPAN |
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Religion |
Year 2000 |
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Buddhist |
43220860 |
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Christian |
6514260 |
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Ethnic Religion |
6466360 |
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Chinese folk |
878150 |
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Bahai |
319330 |
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Muslim |
558820 |
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Asian new |
4470570 |
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Asian new |
17403300 |
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Total |
79831650 |
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6. Vietnam-Champa Relations and the
Malay-Islam Regional Network in
the 17th–19th Centuries
[By
Danny Wong Tze Ken ]
Historical relations between Vietnam and the kingdom of Champa was a
very long- standing affair characterized by the gradual rise of the
Vietnamese and the decline of the Chams. The relationship began as early as
the second century CE, when the Chams started a kingdom called Lin-yi,
covering the area between the land of the Viet people in the north and
Nanchao in the south. The historical consciousness of both peoples includes
wars and conflicts between the two over a period of fifteen centuries before
the kingdom of Champa was incorporated under Vietnamese rule in 1693.
Thereafter, the lands of the Chams were settled by Vietnamese through a
series of land settlement programs introduced by the Vietnamese ruling
houses. |
