About Ma Linyi
Lived 1864 – 1938 (aged 73–74). Ma Linyi was a politician, pedagogue and islamicist.
Ma Linyi was a Chinese Muslim politician born in Hunan province during the Qing Dynasty.
Biography He was born in the year 1864 and died in 1938.
In 1912, he became Minister of Education of Gansu province, appointed by the Republic of China Kuomintang government.
He founded the Association for the Promoting of Islamic Teaching in 1918 in the provincial capital of Gansu.
He, along with General Ma Fuxiang, sponsored Imam Wang Jingzhai when he went on hajj to Mecca in 1921.
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Who was Ma Linyi?
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Ma Linyi was born in 1864.
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Ma Linyi died on 17 September 1938 in Beijing.
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Ma Linyi was a politician, pedagogue and islamicist.
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