Wikipedia's first sentence called it “sufist order of chinese islam”. Today it says “tariqa”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Mausoleum of Ma Laichi , Linxia City , Gansu, China Yu Baba Gongbei in Linxia”. It now reads “Sufist order of Chinese Islam”.
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Sufist order of Chinese Islam Mausoleum of Ma Laichi , Linxia City , Gansu, China Yu Baba Gongbei in Linxia Khufiyya ( Chinese : 虎夫耶 ; pinyin : Hǔfūyé ; Arabic : خفيه, the silent ones) is a Sufist order of Chinese Islam .1It was the first Sufist order to be established within China and, along with Jahriyya , Qadiriyya and Kubrawiyyah , is acknowledged as one of the four orders of Chinese Sufism.2Adherents of Khufiyya dwell mainly in Northwestern China, especially Gansu Province . The order follows the school of Hanafi in terms of jurisprudence.3Traditional beliefs within the order claim the origin of Khufiyya to be Abu Bakr . In addition, the doctrines of Khufiyya are influenced by Confucianism , the Confucian approach or way of expounding Islamic sacred texts known as "Yiru Quanjing" (以儒詮經). 回族社会历史调查资料 .4 Hui Chinese and Islamic study .
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Mausoleum of Ma Laichi , Linxia City , Gansu, China Yu Baba Gongbei in Linxia Khufiyya ( Chinese : 虎夫耶 ; pinyin : Hǔfūyé ; Arabic : خفيه, the silent ones) is a Sufist order of Chinese Islam . It was the first Sufist order to be established within China and, along with Jahriyya , Qadariyya and Kubrawiyyah, is acknowledged as one of the four orders of Chinese Sufism. Adherents of Khufiyya dwell mainly in Northwestern China, especially Gansu Province . The order follows the school of Hanafi in terms of jurisprudence. Traditional beliefs within the order claim the origin of Khufiyya to be Abu Bakr . In addition, the doctrines of Khufiyya are influenced by Confucianism , the Confucian approach or way of expounding Islamic sacred texts known as "Yiru Quanjing" (以儒詮經). 回族社会历史调查资料 . Hui Chinese and Islamic study .
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Sufist order of Chinese Islam Khufiyya ( Arabic : الخفية , romanized : Khufiyya or Khafiyya , lit. ' the silent ones ' ; borrowed as Chinese : 虎夫耶 ; pinyin : Hǔfūyé ) is a tariqa (Sufi order) of Chinese Islam .It was the first tariqa to be established in China and, along with the Jahriyya , Qadiriyya , and Kubrawiyyah , is acknowledged as one of the four orders of Chinese Sufism.Khufis dwell mainly in Northwest China , especially Gansu .The order follows the Hanafi school in terms of jurisprudence .Traditional beliefs within the order claim the originator of Khufiyya to be Abu Bakr .In addition, the doctrines of Khufiyya are influenced by a Confucian approach to expounding Muslim sacred texts known as Yiru Quanjing ( Chinese : 以儒詮經 ). 回族社会历史调查资料 . Hui Chinese and Islamic study .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “sufist order of chinese islam”. Today it says “tariqa”. The one-line description Wikipedia serves to search engines and AI systems read “Mausoleum of Ma Laichi , Linxia City , Gansu, China Yu Baba Gongbei in Linxia”. It now reads “Sufist order of Chinese Islam”. Read the current article and compare.
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