Wang Jingzhai

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Wang Jingzhai ( Chinese  王靜 齋  /  王静 斋 , original first name Wenqing文 清; born approx. 1879 in Tientsin ; died 1949 ) was an important Hui-Chinese scholar of Islam and well-known translator of the Koran into Chinese .

At the age of 24 he was elected Akhund (Chinese āhōng ). Since 1922 he studied at the al-Azhar University in Egypt . In 1923 he made the pilgrimage to Mecca , later further study trips to Turkey , India and other countries. After his return to China he founded the Sino-Arab University ( Zhong-A daxue ) in Tianjin and published the Yiguang monthly from 1927 .

In 1937 he founded the Anti-Japanese Chinese Muslim Society for the Salvation of the Fatherland (Zhongguo Huimin Kang-Ri xiehui) in Henan with Shi Zizhou (1879-1969 ). During the war he studied the Koran in Chongqing , Ningxia and other places.

He mastered the Arabic, Persian and English languages ​​and has translated many works into Chinese. His Koran translation and interpretation ( Gulanjing yijie (1932, 1943 and 1946)), the Arabic-Chinese dictionary ( A-Han zidian ), Weigaye and Zhenjing huayuan (or Gulisitang "Golestan" (rose garden ) by Saadi (1213-1291)).

Together with Da Pusheng 达 浦 生 (1874-1965), Ha Decheng 哈德 成 (1888-1943) and Ma Songting 马松亭 (1895-1992) he is one of the four great Akhunds (religious scholars of Islam ) of modern China .

literature

reference books

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

Web links

References and footnotes

  1. ↑ bdylx.com: Zhongguo Si da Ahong zhi yi - Wang Jingzhai ( Memento from October 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (found on March 25, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Wang, Jingzhai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jingzhai, Wenqing; 王靜 齋 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION hui Chinese scholar of Islam, Koran translator
DATE OF BIRTH around 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Tientsin
DATE OF DEATH 1949