Ma Linyi

In this Chinese name, the family name is Ma.

Ma Linyi was a Chinese Muslim born in Hunan province during the Qing Dynasty.

He was born in the year 1864 and died in 1938.

In 1912, he became Minister of Education of Gansu province, appointed by the Republic of China Kuomintang government.[1][2]

He founded the Association for the Promoting of Islamic Teaching in 1918 in the provincial capital of Gansu.[3]

He, along with General Ma Fuxiang, sponsored Imam Wang Jingzhai when he went on hajj to Mecca in 1921.[4]

  1. ^ M. Rafiq Khan (1963). Islam in China. Delhi: National Academy. p. 17. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  2. ^ M. Rafiq Khan (1963). Islam in China. Delhi: National Academy. p. 17. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  3. ^ Stéphane A. Dudoignon (2004). Devout societies vs. impious states?: transmitting Islamic learning in Russia, Central Asia and China, through the twentieth century : proceedings of an international colloquium held in the Carré des Sciences, French Ministry of Research, Paris, November 12–13, 2001. Schwarz. p. 65. ISBN 3-87997-314-8. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
  4. ^ Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Hisao Komatsu; Yasushi Kosugi (2006). Intellectuals in the modern Islamic world: transmission, transformation, communication. Taylor & Francis. p. 315. ISBN 978-0-415-36835-3. Retrieved 2010-06-28.