Muhammad Ma Jian

Muhammad Ma Jian
Traditional Chinese	馬堅
Simplified Chinese	马坚
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Mǎ Jiān - Wade–Giles Ma Chien
Courtesy name (字)
Traditional Chinese	子實
Simplified Chinese	子实
Transcriptions Mandarin - Hanyu Pinyin Zǐshí - Wade–Giles Tzu-shih

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This is a Chinese name; the family name is Ma.

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

1. ^ 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

Persondata
Name	Muhammad Ma Jian
Alternative names
Short description	Chinese Islamic scholar and translator
Date of birth	1906
Place of birth	Shadian village, Gejiu, Yunnan, China
Date of death	1978
Place of death	Beijing, China