我国历史研究工作者,多认为伊斯兰教从海路传入中国要比陆路为早,但不论海路还是陆路,最初穆斯林不是专程传教而来,主要是因经商而到中国的,故早期伊斯兰教徒的“住唐”和迁徙,是和大食与波斯等地区的各族人民来中国经商的交通路线紧紧连系在一起的。我国唐宋时期,广州、扬州和泉州是海上主要贸易港口。阿拉伯人和波斯人航海而至中国者,自粤而闽而浙,溯运河往江苏之瓜洲,达江都,北至山东之济宁,经南旺,折 Historians in our country think more that Islam came to China from the sea than earlier, but whether it was sea or land, Muslims did not come to China for the first time because they came to China mainly because of their business. Therefore, the early “Living in the Tang Dynasty” and migrating are closely linked with the transportation routes that the people of all ethnic groups in the regions such as Persia and Persia have come to do business in China. During the Tang and Song Dynasties in China, Guangzhou, Yangzhou and Quanzhou were major maritime trading ports. Arabs and Persian sailing to China, from Guangdong and Fujian and Zhejiang, retro river to the melon Island in Jiangsu, Jiangdu, north to Shandong Jining, Nanwang, fold