The Lost Muslim Sultanate of China (Yunnan Sultanate)

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Did you know there was once a Muslim sultanate in the heart of China?
Dive into the fascinating history of the Pingnan Guo Sultanate, led by Du Wenxiu, who rose from the ashes of conflict to establish a Muslim state in Yunnan during the tumultuous 19th century.
This documentary uncovers the story of a region transformed by its diverse cultures and the Mongol conquest, eventually becoming a battleground for ethnic and political dominance.
Learn about the unique circumstances that led to the formation of this sultanate, the strategic alliances and conflicts that defined its existence, and its tragic end. Witness the struggle between the Hui Muslims and Han Chinese, the influence of the Manchu rulers, and how these events intertwined with the larger Chinese resistance movements like the Taiping Rebellion.
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[@maddogbasil]

*Yo Brother Omar We Need to see a Video done on Ajuraan Sultanate* *Its 1000 year rule of trade in east africa and spread of islam across the Indian ocean is incredibly amazing* Many great peoples like Ibn Said Yusuf al barkhad Abdal Aziz (governor general of the maldives colony) Founding madagascar Founding sofala Founding early muslim cities in southern india like beruwala They were a juggernaut of islamic African history in the east

[@Ali-fc1bv]

Indeed, that would be interesting.

[@timurthejerk9270]

let's show somali kingdoms some love

[@muslimresponse103]

always interesting to learn about underreported history. i knew some of this though!

[@gofigureYT]

indeed, but not to me though being so called history nerd. 😅

[@auron7361]

The Islamic kingdom of Yunan, the Islamic kingdom of Champa, the Islamic kingdom in the country which is currently named after a colonial king (Philippines) as a Southeast Asian person, I know it all, The South China Sea was formerly called the Champa Sea

[@user-oe7sh7qv4v]

Well .. South Han Sea was known for more than 2000. Champa khanat was never same as older Hindu Camps.

[@renleihuman4551]

good video bro. I'm a Chinese Muslim, and I've been watching ur videos for a long time, keep up the good work. u know, insha Allah, if I can meet 杜文秀（Du Wenxiu）in the hereafter, I'll talk to him, I really wanna know what exactly had happened

[@mamichael-gv2jo]

Yunnan is home to more than 40 ethnic groups, most of whom live in harmony, except for the Hui, who do not seem to get along well with any non-Muslim group. They were behind the Kunming train station terrorist attack in 2014, and in recent years more and more people have begun to wear black burqas and recently fought the government's efforts to renovate mosques. In the minds of many Muslims, Muslims abroad are brothers and sisters, while non-Muslims at home are enemies, and there is only religion but no country in their hearts（“有教无国”说的很贴切）.

[@freethinker810]

@@mamichael-gv2jo the 2014 Kunming terrorist attack is done by Uyghur separatist, nothing to do with Hui.

[@mamichael-gv2jo]

@@freethinker810 I know the Uighurs did it, but the Uighurs were hiding in the Shadian Mosque before they did it, and after the thugs were shot, Shadian Muslims went to mourn the thugs instead of the victims.

[@SamSam-jp1ju]

@@mamichael-gv2joMa Michael? Are you Christian? Haha, you are joking me…you have no right to comment about China, Christianity go to China through colonisation, killing and slavery. Islam go to China through trading, business and culture. Thats why Islam blended well with China…

[@user-fs9kc1vo4o]

@@freethinker810 回族接应了他们

[@John_O_Connor]

Syed Ajall Shamsuddin Bukhari was a descendant of the Holy Prophet's (PBUH) daughter: Syeda Fatima al-Zahra AlaySalam ♥️

[@John_O_Connor]

The Chinese admiral Zheng "Muhammad" Hu was in turn a male descandant of Syed Ajall Shamsuddin Bukhari ❤

[@legend_17187]

Source????

[@VDOless]

Yeah we'd like some references for these lineages

[@codingblues3181]

Most Syeds are not descendents of Prophet (pbuh).

[@legend_17187]

@@codingblues3181 if anyone is a syed then he is from the family of prophet but the problem is that there r many so called syed among us who aren't really syed

[@winmoeaung86]

Very interesting history. Hui chinese are called Panthay chinese in Myanmar and there's a pretty large community of Panthay chinese in Myanmar.

[@KhalidKhan-ki9bi]

بہت عمدہ تحقیق، چینل۔excellent, research, channel

[@KenanTurkiye]

My country Turkiye has many times proposed that we muslims establish a peace keeping force and have our selves established in bases in Jordan and the region, but Arab countries have so far succummed to foreign pressures and not accepted such an offer, as yet. To all the Arab brothers and sisters; without falling out of Islamic etiquitte and manners, and without endangering yourselves or others, please rally your leaders/governments, so we can get together and do what's needed to stop all this, ...condemnation, throwing an aid pallet or two from airplanes and posing for the cameras for the media isn't right, we need to establish a peace keeping force to stop the brutality. We need to show a steady force, we need to first unite, please don't just watch, be active in your countries.... ....and all nations can join in on this peace keeping force, from all corners of the world, all beliefs, because this is about SANITY against INSANITY !

[@KenanTurkiye]

EVERYONE please make a playlist about Palestine like I have (4th playlist) and ask others to have such a playlist. Or copy directly the list I have and ask others to copy it from you, and they ask others copy from them. We need to spread the truth, millions, billions of us.

[@muslimresponse103]

@@KenanTurkiyeyou don’t understand how the world works! Erdogan says those things for votes in Turkiye. he knows the limits of his and Turkiyes power. the Arabs know very well what it means to go to war with israel and the USA. Allah ﷻ is the best of planners.

[@zohayerhossain55555]

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[@Mahapadmadipatu]

So you can attack israel???mate I think you should think twice before attacking god chosen people​@@KenanTurkiye

[@KenanTurkiye]

@@Mahapadmadipatu So God The Creator is unjust and chose them and rejected you Indians, why there are 1.4 billion people suffering? There's no such Creator, Creator is beautifull just wise and welcomes everyone who believes and worships only The Creator and no idols.

[@ramadanshalal4440]

Ur videos are great!!!! But just usually rewatch them before uploading ❤️

[@wizurd]

Barak Allah Feek Brother! Fantastic video. Keep up the great work.

[@Kuppasy]

Du Wenxiu himself was born into Han ethnicity. Du converts to Islam in his early age mainly as he finds the Manchu Qing rulers were exploiting both Huis and Han mine workers. Du’s main objective was to unite both Han and Hui to overthrow Qing rule. Du was somewhat successful in bringing some non-Muslim ethnic tribes of Yunnan but he wasn’t successful in building the unity between Huis and Hans. Moreover some Hui factions supported the Qing emperor. This was called Panthey rebellion. Thousands of huis were massacred in this rebellion. Many others were dislocated as refugees into Qinghai province and also into Myanmar. Their descendants in Myanmar are still called as Pantheys

[@MrLantean]

Genetically Hui Muslim and Han Chinese are genetically indistinguishable. At first they are thought to be descendants of Middle eastern merchants, travelers and adventurers that settled down in China and married local women. Genetic tests have shown that they are descended primarily from East Asian converts to Islam and only a small percentage has Middle Eastern genetic markers. Culturally and linguistically, Hui Muslims are Han Chinese that practice Islam as their religion. Furthermore Du Wenxiu was Hui Muslim by birth instead of a convert.

[@dumplingcendawan9292]

Zheng Ho descendant basically in Sabah and Sarawak. That is why people there so beautiful.

[@Kuppasy]

Zheng Ho had no children. He was ostracized in his childhood by the Ming rulers and grew as a Eunuch. So he has no descendent. In Melaka there is a museum for Zheng Ho. There were a few Chinese Muslims accompanied him during his voyage. Their names are listed in the museum. Zheng He is revered in Melaka as he helped Melaka founder Parameshwara to build relationship with ming emperor Ju Di. Parsmeshwara later became Muslim and his son (or grandson) Mansoor Shah married one of the Ming princes.

[@aryanhan506]

Hah ? Eunuch got children/descendants ?

[@lopezahus3117]

Make sense now During ming dynasty Many Muslim people be a minister

[@adampatel3132]

From china to spain, we wait for its return

[@peekaboopeekaboo1165]

Fantasy

[@user-lx5qf3rd2h]

You will only see Burma. The Muslims in Yunnan and Northwest China are descendants of the Arab, European, and Persian troops brought by the Mongols. After the Mongols fled, the Ming government allowed them to stay in China, but they could only marry Han Chinese. These people were collectively called "Hui" (which included Christians, Jews, and Muslims). These people later became Muslims. Hundreds of years later, they launched a holy war in 1862, massacring pagans in Yunnan and Northwest China, killing 20 million Buddhists, and they wanted to establish an Islamic state without pagans. Ten years later, the government army returned after destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they (more than 90%) were destroyed by the government army. The Chinese Muslims you see today are descendants of some people who were forgiven by the government army at that time. In addition, Zheng He was a Buddhist, and his hand-copied Buddhist scriptures were sold at a very high price at Sotheby's auction house a few years ago. It is true that some "Semu people" (Europeans, Persians) became officers of the Ming Dynasty, but they included Jews, Christians, and Muslims. The Jews were called blue-hatted "Hui", but later they all became Muslims. They have no descendants because they all died in the holy war. Islam brings only blood.

[@MuhammadShahan-jm7cr]

Sir I didn't The Know About The Chinese Muslim Sultanate Thanks For Sharing Great Information Sir😊😊

[@noorzam72]

Interesting and amazing History of Islam & Muslims coming always from you ❤

[@mahmudrahman9855]

Thanks!

[@wewenang5167]

Many Chinese Muslims believe that Hongwu emperor was a Muslims himself but he never announced his religion to his subject because he doesn't want the Han majority who are not Muslims to rebel so he remain Muslims just among his family and he also have a Muslim wife and not many concubines like many other Chinese emperor.

[@mamichael-gv2jo]

It's a pity that you guys weren't born in South Korea😅

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@mamichael-gv2joHuh?

[@PapaCloguu]

😂

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@PapaCloguu You’re nothing more than a thickhead.

[@grandongplb]

I heard from some Muslim forums that Confucius was secretly a Muslim.

[@user-zs7mb5dr4t]

You can make a video about the dungan Rebellion which resulted in the death of tens of millions of people but there is hardly any mention of it on KZbin It was crazy and affected Chinese Hui Muslims history so much that even Du Wenxiu's uprising could only be counted as part of this dungan larger uprising

[@travellingcam5722]

Great work we didn’t know about it 👏❤

[@ghufrananaqvi9031]

Love your videos brother. Don't forget to make the video on Ma Clique, and the Legend of Cheraman Perumal.

[@iskandarding5396]

Bizarre feeling as a descendant of Sayyid Ajall Shams al-Din Omar watching this video.

[@awangleman3612]

Cheng Ho is muslim too.

[@Delhi_Sultan]

Very interesting video. Mashallah!

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

0:37 Only the first Abbasid Caliphate. Shortly afterwards the Second Abbasid Caliphate began.

[@toty9499]

Can you please mention the resources❤

[@lorenam8028]

This happened all over China. At the fall of the Qing dynasty there was terrible repression all over the place. You make it sound like it was directed only against Muslims. It was not. Also, there's hui people all over China, not just in Yunnan. The whole province of Ningxia in the north is a hui autonomous region. And Yunnan is still full of hui people.

[@lightforce4604]

He didn't say it was only happening against muslims neither did he say that Hui's only live in Yunan. You're simply projectng.

[@verilyze]

Well we are not concerned for strangers miss Our people take priority for us China has done nothing for muslims It's unfortunate that Pakistan has to have relations with China If I was the president of Pakistan i would cut off all ties with China and focus on Indonesia and gulf states China is gonna be next evil as it always been it's just US is in the town No hate but don't pretend to be this goody goody

[@sharbandarrimau8448]

Allahumma salli ala muhammad Ya rabbi salli alaihi wa sallim 😊

[@alnajirlani8785]

Is this the Taosug Sultan Batara of Sulu Kingdom of the Philippines, when the Philippine is not yet Philippines..

[@Jamshedac-gf4bh]

Masha Allah good know thanks brother

[@seanshui5909]

The fled Hui muslims then entered Myanmar and became Panthays and the ones entered Thailand became Chinho. That is why you will see Chinese speaking muslims in those two countries

[@shahrimanshahnaz7008]

Yup that explains the chinese speaking muslim Thais in bordering Chiangmai of Thailand

[@seanshui5909]

@@shahrimanshahnaz7008 yeah

[@TheBlackzman]

This is fake Chinese Muslims and Christians were at the Ming Dynasty

[@alvinjr.5524]

Can you cover story the last Sultanate of south Thailand

[@saizan3193]

what?.. pattani kingdom?

[@alvinjr.5524]

@@saizan3193 yes

[@user-lx5qf3rd2h]

Don't deliberately misinterpret Chinese history. The Muslims in Yunnan and northwest China are descendants of Arabs, Europeans, and Persians brought by the Mongols. After the Mongols fled, the Ming government allowed them to stay in China, but they could only marry Han people. These people were collectively called "Hui" (which included Christians, Jews, and Muslims). These people later became Muslims. Hundreds of years later, they launched a jihad in 1862, massacred pagans on a large scale, causing 20 million deaths, and wanted to establish an Islamic state without pagans. Ten years later, the government army returned after destroying the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and they (more than 90%) were destroyed by the government army. The Chinese Muslims you see today are descendants of some people who were forgiven by the government army at that time. In addition, Zheng He was a Buddhist, and his handwritten Buddhist scriptures were sold at a very high price at Sotheby's auction house a few years ago. The emperors of the Ming Dynasty in China all ate pork. China has detailed records of their meals. It is true that some "Semu people" (Europeans, Persians) became officers of the Ming Dynasty, but they included Jews, Christians, and Muslims.

[@keatkhamjornmeekanon7616]

Again, you forget the role of the Manchu in Manchu conquest and Ming-Qing transition when the remnants of Ming retreated to Yunnan and invaded Burma.

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

Wait what?😊

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

Could you please do a video on the Kumul Rebellion and another one on Ananda Khan, King of Anxi.

[@mamichael-gv2jo]

As a Chinese, it must be said that you basically bullshit the whole time.There have been many massacres in China's history, even genocides. Regardless of the cause, in the eyes of the Chinese people today, most of the time, the victims will be more or less sympathized. The Hui rebellion, which originated in Yunnan, is perhaps the bloodiest ethnic vendetta in the history of the world. After this rebellion, more than 90% of the Hui people in the rebel areas were slaughtered. But there is almost no sympathy among Chinese today (except Muslims), and I will explain why. Dali itself is a multi-ethnic regime that writes Chinese characters and speaks Chinese. Some historians even speculate that its founders were the Han intellectuals who went south to YunNan. Before the arrival of the Mongols, there were many Han people living in Yunnan. With the fall of the Mongols and the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of Han Chinese once again poured into Yunnan, and the Muslim population of Yunnan also increased in the following centuries, and by the 19th century, the Muslim population of Yunnan had grown from almost negligible to about 1.3 million, about one-tenth of the total population of Yunnan. With the growth of the population, the conflicts between Muslims and other ethnic groups due to the conflict of beliefs and the competition for resources became more and more intense, until the 19th century, with the outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion, the Muslims in Yunnan had greater ambitions. The Muslim rebellion was sparked by a battle over a mine in the Lin 'an area, led by Du Wenxiu, with the slogan "Unite the Hui and Han as one body, erect a righteous flag, expel Manchus, restore China, cut off corruption, and create a Muslim state in Yunnan". Du Wenxiu himself did not hate the Han people, and even the identity of many Muslims at that time was "Han people who believed in Islam." However, once the national uprising was launched, it was difficult to control, and many non-Muslims were slaughtered indiscriminately in the rebellion, which broke out for many years. The rebellion soon spread to neighboring Guangxi and Guizhou, but the Hui uprising could not win recognition in the Han majority areas, and the uprising was soon put out, and Du Wenxiu himself committed suicide by swallowing poison. But no one could have foreseen that this would turn out to be just the beginning of a bloodier and more far-reaching rebellion. After the failure of the Yunnan uprising, a Hui leader named Ren Wu fled to Shaanxi Province, which also had strong Sino-Hui rivalries, and continued to foment rebellion in an attempt to re-establish the Islamic State. (By the way, Shaanxi is one of the origins of Chinese culture and has a very high cultural status.) Subsequently, with the "cutting bamboo on the Holy Mountain" incident as the trigger, a new Muslim rebellion broke out in Shaanxi, and a large number of Han people were slaughtered indiscriminately. At the beginning of the rebellion, the Qing government tried to appease the rebels, but the rebels killed and dismembered the ministers sent by the Qing government to negotiate, which led to the Qing government's decision to suppress by force. The rebellion then spread to what is now Gansu, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and even Outer Mongolia, and was far bloodier than Yunnan, slaughting cities wherever they crossed the border. The rebellion lasted for five years and was difficult for the Qing army to neutralize, as the rebels received large amounts of Russian firearms. By the end of the rebellion, the entire Upper Shaanxi and Gansu region (including Qinghai) had lost more than 20 million people, most of them Han Chinese. The rebellion lasted for five years, and it was difficult for the Qing army to put down the rebellion, because the rebels received large amounts of Russian firearms. After the failure of the rebellion, some of the rebels, led by Bai Yanhu, fled to Xinjiang to cooperate with foreign forces, and the Agubah continued to fight until they were expelled to Central Asia, whose descendants are the "Donggan people" who now live in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and are said to have had a difficult time getting along with the local Central Asian indigenous people, even though they are Muslims. Instead of fighting against the oppression of the Qing government to create an Islamic state composed of pure Muslims, the rebels again carried out indiscriminate killings of non-Muslims in the process, and eventually triggered bloody reprisals by the Han Chinese, resulting in the massacre of more than 90% of the Muslims in Shaanxi and Gansu and the forced relocation of the rest to remote and poor areas. For the political purposes of "national unity", the content of this chaos was not written into textbooks, and most Chinese people today do not know about it, Almost anyone in China who knows about this history have no sympathy for them (except some Muslims).

[@wewenang5167]

CCP version of history lol

[@mamichael-gv2jo]

@@wewenang5167 When these things happened, the Manchu government had not yet collapsed, and the CPC would not be established until more than half a century later. For the sake of so-called "national unity," the Communist Party erased this black history of the Hui people. What the fxxk are you talking about?

[@lightforce4604]

You'd have to provide sources for the credibility of everything you said.

[@walhdamaskus2408]

​@@wewenang5167, ccp version is more reliable than cia version. 😂😂

[@ruizhang1205]

@@wewenang5167你应该感谢ccp不报道穆斯林的恶行

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

0:26 Please don’t call that thing mongol empire! It wasn’t that big at all!

[@Rifqiethehero]

What?

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@Rifqiethehero Mongol Empire wasn’t that big at all.

[@wewenang5167]

@@KILLER.KNIGHT eeeh? That thing you call is spread to hungary in europe...what do you mean its not big?

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

@@wewenang5167 That was the Golden Horde Khanate not mongol bongol dongol empire!

[@benjamindo8142]

​@@KILLER.KNIGHT altan urda was part of the mongol empire.... Berke still was under the command of the great khan

[@TheBlackzman]

Not accurate history and map such bs, Mongol Empire never conquered China, it was after the collapse, conquered by the Yuan Dynasty

[@TheBlackzman]

Plus this is fake Chinese Muslims and Christians started since the Ming Dynasty

[@Haijwsyz51846]

Made up history. There was no Muslims in china during the yuan dynasty. In fact Kublai, the great khan, meaning all the other khans were subordinate to him, did not like the fact that the khan of Chagtai converted to Islam. And the khan of ilkhante hugalu was not a muslim.

[@TheBlackzman]

Yeah as a Chinese I can confirm that some Chinese converted to Islam and Christianity only since the Ming Dynasty

[@Kamel718]

Lots of ccp bots

[@user-lx5qf3rd2h]

不要故意曲解中国的历史。云南和中国西北的穆斯林是蒙古人带来阿拉伯人、欧洲人、波斯人后裔。蒙古人逃走后，明朝政府允许他们继续呆在中国，但只能和汉人婚嫁。这些人被统称为“回”（里面包含基督徒、犹太人和穆斯林）。这些人后来都变成了穆斯林。几百年后，他们在1862发动圣战，大规模屠杀异教徒，造成2000万人死亡，想建立没有异教徒的伊斯兰国。十年后，政府军在消灭太平天国后返回，他们（90%以上）都被政府军消灭了。今天你看到的中国穆斯林是被当时政府军宽恕的一些人的后裔。另外，郑和是佛教徒，他的手抄佛经前几年在苏富比拍卖行拍出了极高价格。中国明朝皇帝都吃猪肉。这个中国有详细的用餐记载。的确有一些“色目人”（欧洲人、波斯人）称为了明朝军官，但里面包括犹太人、基督徒和伊斯兰教徒。

[@muhdmuhd500]

The goat can fly.

[@helvetius1572]

I want you to read and understand more about this history before you make a video; Because in many key plots of your video, you obviously reverse black and white, stigmatize the Han nationality, and are obviously inconsistent with literature records.

[@hassanmars5250]

i am hui Muslim，let me tell some history about china Muslim regime ，in china islam history，there are only two real Muslim regimes exsited real，one is Mongol prince ananda kindom who was kubulai grandson，he controled northwest part of china，he was surely Muslim，he surely forced his big army converted islam even if today，his descendents dongxiang hui people still speaks mongol language.the second regim is Ma clique era （1915-1949）Ma bufang family and Ma hongkui family controled Qinghai north gansu ningxia western alashan mongol area，they defeated several times other han Chinese warlords invasions，they belong to guomingdang party but actually they got independent power，they had independent army economy and diplomatic decades actually.these two regims exists in china history for more than 50 years.

[@wangbuhai]

尝试在中国搞领土分裂,就距离灭亡不远了

[@lightforce4604]

Yeah the Mongols that converted to Islam and whose descendents that now live in the Xingjiang region are the Uyghurs

[@drzohaibashraf]

Thanks for sharing Han hao Xie xie

[@user-hr8uw6gk5o]

到现在还不知道安分守己，你们回族人真的是一点廉耻心都没有吗？

[@hx1167]

“he surely forced his big army converted islam even if today” that has proven every single sentences, idk why there’s a religious agenda to shove it down on people throat, I guess this is the point of social unrest

[@Shaftalooooo]

wtf

[@yah4565]

lied

[@PapaCloguu]

Whatever!😂

[@chingtuckmeng1122]

@Omar of the Orient there was NEVER a sultonick in china history🐽

[@joeottoman6484]

bullshit again, Yunnan has never been the heart of China, but a southwest border province.

[@mahmudrahman9855]

Thanks!

[@TheBlackzman]

This is fake, Chinese Muslims and Christians converts only started since the Ming Dynasty

[@mahmudrahman9855]

Thanks!

[@mumtazshamsee5029]

Thanks!

[@OmaroftheOrient]

Wow thanks again!

[@mahmudrahman9855]

Thanks!

[@OmaroftheOrient]

Thank you so much 😊