A group for scholars interested in sharing books, articles, and other resources pertaining to connections between China and those regions that now make up the Islamic world, including its non-Muslim religious communities, from late antiquity to the present.

This includes:

• Islam and other "foreign" religions in China
• diasporas and circular societies in China with a significant connection to the Islamic world (e.g. Manichaeans, Muslim Chinese)
• Chinese writing on foreign populations and religions
• geographical and other descriptions of China produced in the Islamic world
• exchanges of visual culture between China and the Islamic world
• interaction between Chinese and Muslims in southeast Asia and Central Asia