Abstract
This piece of research is meant to investigate the interrelationship of Islam and Confucianism in the history of Chinese Muslims concentrating upon the textual analysis of a Chinese Muslim tract written during Ming dynasty. We suggest that the Muslims enacted the Islamic principle of ‘picking up the appropriate and shunning the improper’; thus they adopted and inculcated the Confucian ethical teachings and social values compatible to Islamic tradition into their intellectual framework and stayed isolated from the rituals contrary to the Islamic practices. By adopting this strategy they intelligently propagated the word of Islam among the Confucian audience emphasizing the ethical aspect of their tradition thus enacting the Quranic principle of doing Dawah by calling towards a common word. The analysis of the Chinese Muslim tract known as Qingzhen Jiao Shu will reveal the patterns of Chinese Muslim thought and divulge the tactics the Chinese Muslim authors adopted while presenting Islam to a Confucian majority culture.