[23] ʻAbd al-Razzāq al-Samarqandī: Maṭlaʻ al-saʻdayn, foll. 60–1. (Blochet, pp. 249–52.) [↑]
[24] Zenker, pp. 798–9. Mélanges Orientaux, p. 65. (Publications de l’École des Langues Orientales Vivantes, Sér. ii. t. 9.) (Paris, 1883.) [↑]
[25] Schefer, pp. 29–30. Zenker, p. 796. [↑]
[26] De Thiersant, tome i. pp. 154–6. [↑]
[27] Broomhall, p. 92 sqq. Devéria: Musulmans et Manichéens chinois. (J. A. 9me Sér., tome x. p. 447 sqq.) [↑]
[28] De Thiersant, tome i. pp. 163–4. [↑]
[29] The Muhammadans are said to be more prolific than the ordinary Chinese, and the Chinese census, which counts according to families, estimates six for a Muhammadan family and five for the ordinary Chinese. (Broomhall, pp. 197, 203.) [↑]
[30] Broomhall, in chap. xii. of his Islam in China, gives the total as between five and ten millions. D’Ollone puts it as low as four millions (p. 430). [↑]