Was the first Ming dynasty emperor a secret muslim?

[gurey25]

The rebel commander Zhu Yuanzhang with his army containing many muslims and his 2 top generals muslim,
deposed the Yuan dynastys Mongols and declares himself Emperor Hongwe.

He built many mosques around china, and wrote this eulogy for the prophet muhammed scw.

The hundred word eulogy

Chinese

至聖百字讃

乾坤?始

天?注名

傳教大聖

降生西域

授受天經

三十部册

普化衆生

億兆君師

萬聖領袖

協助天運

保庇國民

五時祈祐

默祝太平

存心真主

加志窮民

拯救患難

洞徶幽冥

超拔靈魂

脱?罪?

仁覆天下

道冠古今

降邪歸一

教名清真

穆罕默德

至聖貴人

............

清真北寺
English

Since Creation of Universe
Heaven has already appointed,
Faith Preaching Giant Saint,
From West He’s Born,
To receive Holy Scripture,
With thirty part Book,
To guide all creations,
King of all Kings,
Leader of Holy Ones,
With Support from Divine,
To Protect His Nation,
With five daily prayers,
Silently hope for peace,
With heart toward Allah,
Empower the poor ones,
Save them from calamity,
See through the Unseen,
Pulling souls and spirits,
Away from all wrongdoings,
Mercy to the World,
Walking ancient Crowned Path,
Evil vanquished to One,
Religion Pure and True,
Muhammad,
The Noble High One.
العربية

منذ خلق الكون
وقد عين السماء بالفعل،
إيمان دعوة العملاق القديس،
من الغربية التي كانت ولادته،
في الحصول على الكتاب المقدس،
مع كتاب من30 جزء،
لتوجيه جميع المخلوقات،
ملك كل الملوك،
زعيم كل القديسين،
بدعم من الالهي،
لحماية أمته،
مع خمس صلوات يوميا،
نأمل بصمت من أجل السلام،
مع القلب نحو الله،
تمكين الدول الفقيرة،
انقاذهم من كارثة،
نرى من خلال الغيب،
سحب النفوس والأرواح،
بعيدا عن كل الأخطاء،
رحمة للعالمين،
المشي القديمة مسار المتوج،
المهزوم الشر لأحد،
الدين الصافي وصحيح،
محمد،
واحد نوبل السامية.

fascinating isnt it.

[Alphanumeric]

Interesting.

[Alchemist]

Interesting indeed

Gurey is one of the few people you can actually benefit from on this forum

[Siciid85]

Interesting post Gurey it seems Islam was present in China way earlier than we though. Do you have any info of this Muslim chinese leader who was the leader of the
previous rebel group Hongwu was part of.

Hongwu ordered the construction of several mosques in Nanjing, Yunnan, Guangdong and Fujian,[41] and had inscriptions praising Muhammed placed in mosques. He rebuilt the Jinjue Mosque in Nanjing and large numbers of Hui people moved to the city during his rule.[42]
He also wrote a 100 word praise on Islam, Allah and the prophet Muhammad. He had around 10 Muslim generals in his military,[43] including Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, Ding Dexing, Mu Ying, Feng Sheng and Hu Dahai. It was recorded that "His Majesty ordered to have mosques built in Xijing and Nanjing [the capital cities], and in southern Yunnan, Fujian and Guangdong. His Majesty also personally wrote baizizan [a eulogy] in praise of the Prophet's virtues."[44] In addition, Hongwu's spouse, Empress Ma, can trace her family's genealogy to Islamic ancestors from 10th century China, while Zhu was originally a member of a rebel group that had a Muslim leader named Guo Zhixins .
Hui scholar Yusuf Haji Chang have claimed the Hongwu Emperor was a Muslim, due to his intimate relations with Muslim, but the majority of academics reject this theory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hongwu_Emperor

[gurey25]

Well his wife empress ma was muslim, from a long line of hui muslims originally from persia.
Guo Zhixins rebel movement was led by muslims and by accepting Zhu Yuanzhang into the movement i assume they were accepting a fellow muslim.

furthermore empress ma was orphaned and Guo Zhixin was here caretaker, why would you allow a muslim women to marry a non muslim.

it obvious that zhu was a muslim at one stage or another.

[Thuganomics]

Sounds like he's definitely a Muslim to me