Historical study on the relationship between national integration of modern China and Islamic Reformer's role in politics

本文以回族为例，分析了近代中国民族国家框架下回族知识分子如何进行民族改革。以下是我们通过四年的研究发现的结果。民国时期的中国伊斯兰改革家在《中华人民共和国宪法》序言和包含各民族的中华民族话语中确立了“统一的多民族国家”原则的理论基础。2. 中国的伊斯兰改革派受到了中东伊斯兰复兴运动的强烈影响。特别是“爱国是伊斯兰教信仰的一部分”的圣训在中国回族穆斯林中非常流行，为回族穆斯林爱国提供了理论基础。一种新传入的防御性圣战理论得到广泛传播，为反驳日本在甲午战争（1937-1945）期间的分而治之政策提供了具体的理由。4. 回族著名知识分子的民族建设理论与中华人民共和国的民族区域自治政策不谋而合。然而，这一理论并不适用于那些有分离倾向并建立自己的民族国家的种族。5. 当代伊斯兰复兴运动的理论和教育根源都可以追溯到共和时期的伊斯兰改革派运动。中国的伊斯兰教仍然处于中共的监控之下，这意味着伊斯兰原教旨主义几乎没有机会进入中国，尽管与沙特阿拉伯的经济关系不容忽视。

Focusing on Hui ethnicity (Hui-zu) as an example of ethnicities which contributed to national unification of China, we analyzed how Hui intellectuals tried to reform their ethnicity in the framework of modem nation-state of China. The followings are results we discovered through the four-year research.9.1. Chinese Islamic reformers in the republican era established a theoretical root for the principle of a "unified multi-national state" in the preamble of the Constitution of the PRC and the discourse of Chinese nation which contains all the ethnicities. 2. Islamic reformers in China were under the strong influence of Islamic revival movement in the Middle East. In particular, Hadith of "Love for your country is a part of the faith of Islam" became very popular to Hui Muslims in China and it provided a theoretical basement form them to have patriotism toward China. 3. A newly imported theory of defensive jihad was spread widely and it gave a concrete reason to refute Japan's attempt of divide-and-rule policy during the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). 4. The theory of ethnicity building made by prestigious intellectuals among the Hui coincided with the policy of national regional autonomy in People's Republic. However, this theory is not applicable to those ethnicities that have a tendency to be separated to formulate their own nation-states. 5. Islamic revival movement in the present times has its theoretical and educational roots in the Islamic reformers' movement in the republican era. Islam in China is still under the surveillance of the CCP and this means Islamic fundamentalism has scarce chances to get into China, even though economic relationship with Saudi Arabia shouldn't be neglected.