On Chinese Āhōng 阿訇

The miscellanea deals with the use of the title of / address to Imāms, Āhōng (阿訇), among China’s Hui Muslims. The title/address of Persian origin is used by different groups of speakers in various ways of pronounciation.

Algar H. 1985. Āḵūnd. – Encyclopaedia Iranica. [vol. 1 (7)]. London.

Bosworth C.E. 1997. Al-Ṣīn. – The Encyclopaedia of Islam. [New edition, vol. 9]. Leiden.

d’Ollone H.M.G. 1911. Recherches sur les musulmans chinois. [Documents scientifiques de

la Mission d’Ollone 1]. Paris.

EI = Algar (1985).

Pulleyblank E.G. 1991. Lexicon of reconstructed pronunciation in Early Middle Chinese, Late

Middle Chinese, and Early Mandarin. Vancouver.

Schuessler A. 2007. ABC etymological dictionary of Old Chinese. Honolulu.