Quran Belt

A Quran Belt is a region where Islamic Values are strong. It is most commonly associated with an area where Islam has historically been influential in northwest China (Xinjiang, Ningxia, Gansu and Qinghai) along the borders of central Asia, Tibet and Mongolia.{{cite book|last=Gladney|first=Dru C.|authorlink=Dru C. Gladney|editor=Guldin, Gregory |editor2=Southall, Aidan|title=Urban Anthropology in China|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A9CY_WiDZrgC&pg=PA282|date=1993-01-01|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004096202|page=282|chapter=Hui Urban Entrepreneurialism in Beijing: State Policy, Ethnoreligious Identity and the Chinese City}}{{cite book |title=The Chinese Sultanate: Islam, Ethnicity, and the Panthay Rebellion in Southwest China, 1856-1873 |page=34 |first=David G. |last=Atwill |year=2005 |publisher=Stanford University Press}}

Other parts of the world where Islam is or has historically been highly influential have also been referred to as the Quran Belt, such as Kabul

and Kandahar in Afghanistan,{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Brian Glyn|title=Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America's Longest War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cYtXJhByzoEC&pg=PA103|date=September 22, 2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=9780812206159|page=103}} central Saudi Arabia,{{cite book |title=The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice since 1967 |first=Fouad |last=Ajami |year=1992 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}} Southeastern Anatolia,{{cite book |title=The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-and How It Died |page=163 |first=John Philip |last=Jenkins |year=2009 |publisher=HarperOne}} Iran's Qom, Iraq's Karbala, Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and India's Jammu and Kashmir territory, Lakshadweep islands, and Barak Valley region of Assam state.{{cite book|last=Knudsen|first=Are J.|title=Political Islam in South Asia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8-wPAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Chr. Michelsen Institute, Development Studies and Human Rights|isbn=9788280620262|page=4}}