Ma Qixi

Ma Qixi ( Chinese  馬 啓 西  /  马 启 西 , Pinyin Mǎ Qǐxī ; * 1857 in Lintan , Gansu ; † 1914 ) was a Hui-Chinese founder of a Sino-Islamic school. In Lintan in Gansu Province , he founded the Chinese Islamic school Xidaotang西 道 堂 (first called Jinxingtang,), the so-called Chinese School (Hanxue pai 汉,), which mainly operates in Lintan and Hezheng in the northwestern Chinese province Gansu is widespread, and has followers in Qinghai Province , Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, and Sichuan Province . It is a Hanafi school of the Sunni tradition, similar to Qadim , which has taken up Jahriyya elements. Works by Liu Zhi and others serve as her da'wa source.

Together with Ikhwan and Gedimu, Xidaotang is one of the three great school traditions in China .

literature

• Shoujiang Mi, Jia You: Islam in China
• Hu Fan: Islam in Shaanxi: Past and Present . Diss. Bonn 2008
• Jonathan M. Lipman: "Ma Qixi," in M. Gaborieau (et al.), Eds., Dictionnaire biographique des savants et grandes figures du monde musulman pèriphèrique du XIXe siécle à nos jours, Fasc. 2 (Paris: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, 1997).

reference books

• Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 (Article: Xidaotang)

See also

• Liu Zhi (1660-1745)

Web links

• Ma Qixi - Chinese
• chinaculture.org: West Khanqa - English
• chinaculture.org: Ikhwān Sect - English
• A Brief Biography of Mr. Ma Qixi - Chinese

References and comments

1. ^ Cihai, p. 1811.
2. ↑ chinaculture.org: West Khanqa ( Memento of November 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Cihai , p. 1811.
4. ↑ Shoujiang Mi & Jia You, p. 68.
5. ↑ Founded by Ma Wanfu (1853–1934) from Hezhou in Gansu Province .
6. ↑ Zhongguo de sanda jiaopai 中国 的 三大 教派 or in short: Sanda jiaopai 三大 教派: Gedimu 格 底 目 (Qadīm), Yihewani 伊赫瓦尼 (Ikhwānī), Xidaotang 西 道 堂 (Chinese school) counts.