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Journalist and writer Abdürreşid İbrahim, known as the first political representative of the Russian Turks, is also known as the Evliya Çelebi of the last period. Abdürreşid İbrahim, who traveled almost all over the world excluding America, Australia and South Africa, shared his impressions of these travels with the public in various channels. In addition to his famous travel book called Âlem-i Islam and Intişâr-ı İslamiyet in Japan, he also wrote down his impressions of his travels in periodicals of the period. One of the periodicals in which these impressions are published is the Sirâtımüstakim magazine. In this article, the writings of Abdürreşid İbrahim, one of the most important personalities of the Turks/Muslims of Russia, about China and Chinese Muslims published in the Sırâtımüstakim magazine are included. In his articles in the Sırâtımüstakim magazine Abdürreşid İbrahim, he criticizes the indifference of traditional Islamic geography to China and Chinese Muslims, and emphasizes the importance of the Islamic world being together in solving the problems of Muslims. In this paper, document analysis method was used. As in other qualitative research methods, in document analysis method, data is analyzed and interpreted in order to develop empirical knowledge and create an understanding about the research topic. In this framework, the articles of the Sırâtımüstakim magazine, which is the main source of the article, were examined by document analysis method.