Muhammad Ma Jian
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Muhammad Ma Jian
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| Traditional Chinese | 馬堅 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 马坚 | ||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 子實 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 子实 | ||||||||
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Muhammad Ma Jian (Gejiu, 1906-Beijing, 1978) was a Chinese Islamic scholar and translator.
Born in Shadian village, Gejiu, Yunnan, Ma Jian went to Shanghai to pursue his studies in 1928. In 1931, he left China for Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt as a member of the first group of government-sponsored Chinese students to study there.[1] While in Cairo, he wrote a book in Arabic about Islam in China, and translated the Analects into Arabic. He returned to China in 1939. There he edited the Arabic-Chinese Dictionary and translated the Qur'an and other Islamic works. He became a professor of Beijing University in 1946. In 1981, the China Social Science Press published his Chinese version of the Qur'an; an Arabic-Chinese bilingual version was later published by the Medina-based King Fahd Holy Qur'an Printing Press.
References
- ^ Harris, George (April 2007), "Al-Azhar through Chinese spectacles", The Muslim World 24 (2): 178–182, doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1934.tb00293.x
Further reading
- Zhongguo Da Baike Quanshu (中国大百科全书 "Encyclopedia of China"), first edition, 1980-1993.
External links
- (Chinese) Biography of Ma Jian and his translation of Qu'ran at norislam.com
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