Ting Wei-tzu, who has studied the development of Islam in China, says that the blending of Islamic and Confucian culture under the Ming was due not only to state policies which pushed in that direction, but also to the overall intellectual setting of that era.
對中國回教的發展頗有研究的丁慰慈認為，回儒文明的融合和有明一代對回教的鼓勵政策和整體學術氛圍有關。