Volume 2 of Islam in China focuses on the period elapsing between the 7th century, which marked the arrival of Islam in China, and 1368 the end of Mongol rule in the country.
After expanding on the early Islamic experience during the T’ang (7th-9th centuries) period, it looks at the prosperous period for both China and Muslims during the Song/Sung Dynasty (10th-13th centuries), before dealing with the disastrous Mongol period (early 13th century-1368).
This work contradicts fundamentally today’s scholarship which attributes to the Mongols all the great, including Islamic expansion. It shows, instead, that both Mongol rule and its scholarship are equally corrupt.
This work relies on Chinese, Muslim, and Western sources.