Chinese Female Muslim Imam Leads Women Of The Hui Minority

QINYANG CITY, CHINA - JULY 22: Hui Muslim female Imam Yonghua Zheng reads the Quran, Islam's holy book, during Ramadan at the family home on July 22, 2014 in Qinyang City, Henan Province, China. As part of a tradition dating back to the late 19th century and unique to China's 10 million Hui Muslims, Zheng is one of hundreds of female Imams leading all female congregations in the women's only mosques of northwest China. Though able to teach and lead prayers for women, they are forbidden from overseeing funeral rituals or washing male corpses before burial. (Photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)