Editing Hui people (section)

==== Sects of Islam ====
{{main|Muslim groups in China}}
[[File:5741-Linxia-Huasi-Gongbei.jpg|thumb|The [[Sufi]] mausoleum (''[[gongbei (Islamic architecture)|gongbei]]'') of [[Ma Laichi]] in [[Linxia City]], China.]]

Most Hui people are [[Sunni Islam|Sunni Muslims]], and their Islamic sects can be divided into:<ref>{{Cite book |author=許向陽 |title=心繫中國穆斯林 — 祈禱手冊 |publisher=香港前線差會 |year=2013 |pages=12}}</ref>

* '''[[Gedimu]]'''{{Efn|格底目派}} '''(Old Sect'''{{Efn|老教}}''')''': This is the oldest and most widely followed sect in China. Members typically do not actively proselytise. It is divided into four main [[Tariqa|Sufi orders]],{{Efn|门宦}} each with its own hereditary leader. Each order has ''[[Gongbei (Islamic architecture)|gongbei]]'',{{Efn|拱北}} which serve as the tombs of its leader.
** '''[[Jahriyya]]'''{{Efn|哲合忍耶派}} (also known as the Loud Chanting Sect{{Efn|高念派}})
** '''[[Khufiyya]]'''{{Efn|虎夫耶派}} (also known as the Quiet Chanting Sect{{Efn|低念派}})
** '''[[Qadiriyya]]'''{{Efn|格底忍耶派}} (meaning “The Great One”{{Efn|“大能者”}})
** '''[[Kubrawiya|Kubrawiyya]]'''{{Efn|库布忍耶派}} (meaning “The Magnificent One”{{Efn|“伟大者“}})
* '''[[Yihewani]]'''{{Efn|伊合瓦尼派}} '''(New Sect'''{{Efn|新教}}''')''': This sect focuses exclusively on the Quran, without establishing any Sufi order, ''gongbei'', or hereditary leadership.
* '''[[Sailaifengye|Salafi]]'''{{Efn|塞莱菲耶派}} '''(New New Sect'''{{Efn|新新教}}''')''': Influenced by Wahhabi thought, this sect aims to reform the New Sect and advocates for a return to the purity and spirituality of early Islam.
* '''[[Xidaotang]]'''{{Efn|西道堂}} '''(Chinese Learning Sect'''{{Efn|汉学派}}''')''': This sect, founded on the Chinese translations of Islamic texts by scholars like Liu Zhi, has a centralised religious authority. Its leader serves for life but does not pass down the position hereditarily.

Ma Tong recorded that the 6,781,500 Sunni Hui in China followed 58.2% [[Gedimu]], 21% [[Yihewani]], 10.9% [[Jahriyya]], 7.2% Khuffiya, 1.4% [[Qadiriyya|Qadariyya]], and 0.7% [[Kubrawiyya]] Sufi schools.{{sfn|Esposito|2000|p = 443–444, 462 }}

Among the northern Hui, Central Asian [[Sufi]] schools such as [[Kubrawiyya]], [[Qadiriyya]], and [[Naqshbandi]]yya ([[Khufiyya]] and [[Jahriyya]]) were strong influences, mostly of the [[Hanafi]] [[Madhhab]]. Hui Muslims have a long tradition of synthesizing [[Confucian]] teachings with [[Qur'an]]ic teachings and reportedly have contributed to Confucianism from the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] period on. Before the "[[Yihewani]]" movement, a Chinese Muslim sect inspired by the Middle Eastern reform movement, northern Hui Sufis blended [[Taoism|Taoist]] teachings and [[martial arts]] practices with Sufi philosophy.