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Ma Jian (Muhammad Makin)

محمد مكين ما جيان

Notable figure 1906–1978 · Source: Wlodzimierz Cieciura, Bringing China and Islam closer: the first Chinese Azharites, Middle East Institute; Wang Guangda (Mahfuz al-Sini), «Nazra jamiʿa ila tarikh al-Islam fi al-Sin», al-Istiʿrab al-Asyawi, vol. 2, no. 1 (2020), pp. 26–27 · Second source: Arabic Literary Translations in China: A Brief History, ArabLit (2016)

Field: Teaching Arabic

Affiliation

Chinese translator of the Qur'an; pioneer of Arabic teaching

Biography

A Hui Chinese, he left for al-Azhar in late 1931 and returned home in 1939. He became professor of Arabic at Peking University (1946), the first Chinese state university with an Arabic major. He translated the Qur'an into Chinese (1952, 1981), put the Analects into Arabic (Cairo 1935), and shared in translating modern Arabic poetry (1958).