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The opening as it read in October 6, 2023
The Hundred-word Eulogy ( Chinese : 百字讃 ; pinyin : Bǎi Zì Zàn ) is a 100- character praise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by the Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty . Copies of it are on display in several mosques in Nanjing , China. Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia . "The Ming Court as Patron of the Chinese Islamic Architecture: The Case Study of the Daxuexi Mosque in Xi'an" .1
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The opening as it stood in 2015
The Hundred-word Eulogy (百字讃 bǎizìzàn ) is a 100- character praise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by the Hongwu Emperor of China (r. 1368-1398). Copies of it are on display in several mosques in Nanjing , China. Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia .
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The opening as it stood in 2020
The Hundred-word Eulogy (百字讃 bǎizìzàn ) is a 100- character praise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by the Hongwu Emperor of China (r. 1368–1398). Copies of it are on display in several mosques in Nanjing , China. Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia . "The Ming Court as Patron of the Chinese Islamic Architecture: The Case Study of the Daxuexi Mosque in Xi'an" .
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The Hundred-word Eulogy ( Chinese : 百字讃 ; pinyin : Bǎi Zì Zàn ) is a 100- character praise of Islam and the Islamic prophet Muhammad written by the Hongwu Emperor of the Chinese Ming dynasty in 1368. Copies of it are on display in several mosques in Nanjing , China. The Islamic-Confucian Synthesis in China . Cheng Ho and Islam in Southeast Asia .
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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “a 100- character praise of islam and the islamic prophet muhammad written by the hongwu emperor of china”. Today it says “a 100- character praise of islam and the islamic prophet muhammad written by the hongwu emperor of the chinese”. Read the current article and compare.
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a 100- character praise of islam and the islamic prophet muhammad written by the hongwu emperor of china
Now
a 100- character praise of islam and the islamic prophet muhammad written by the hongwu emperor of the chinese
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