Ma Linyi was a
Chinese Muslim
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born in
Hunan
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province during the
Qing Dynasty
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.
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
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government.
He founded the Association for the Promoting of Islamic Teaching in 1918 in the provincial capital of Gansu.
He, along with General
Ma Fuxiang
Ma Fuxiang (, Xiao'erjing: , French romanization: Ma-Fou-hiang or Ma Fou-siang; 4 February 1876 – 19 August 1932) was a Chinese military and political leader spanning the Qing Dynasty through the early Republic of China and illustrated the po ...
, sponsored Imam
Wang Jingzhai Wang Jingzhai (; 1879 - 1949) was a well-known Muslim scholar during the Republic of China period. He was the first or possibly second person to translate the entire Qur'an into Chinese, with the exact time attributed to either 1927 or 1932. He be ...
when he went on hajj to Mecca in 1921.
References
Hui people
Republic of China politicians from Hunan
Chinese Muslims
1864 births
1938 deaths
Politicians from Shaoyang
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