Hui people in Beijing

During the early Ming dynasty, individual Muslims in the city were granted political and religious titles by the government.

Village and Family in Contemporary China, a 1980 study by William L. Parish and Martin K. Whyte, stated that there were 16,000 Muslims in Beijing.

Dru C. Gladney, author of Muslim Chinese: Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic, wrote that based on the 1982 census, the 1980 study had "drastically" underestimated the number of Hui in Beijing.

[4] As of 1996 there was no published data based on the 1982 census which maps the distributions of Hui people in the city.

[2] As of 1996 other communities which have concentrations of Hui include Madian, Chaonei, Chaowai, Chongwai, Haidian, Sanlihe,[4] and Huashi.