Ma Laichi (1681? – 1766?;[1] simplified Chinese: 马来迟; traditional Chinese: 馬來遲; pinyin: Mǎ Láichí; Wade–Giles: Ma Lai-chih), also known as Abu 'l-Futūh Ma Laichi, was a Chinese Sufi master who brought the Khufiyya movement to China and created the Huasi menhuan (Sufi order) - the earliest and most important Naqshbandi (نقشبندية，納克什班迪) order in Chinese Muslim history.[2][3]
Ma Laichi's mausoleum (Hua Si Gongbei) in Linxia City.
^As it is often the case with the 17th and 18th-century Hui Sufi figures, the chronology of Ma Laichi's life is not set firmly. Gladney (1996) (p. 47) gives no birth year, and 1766 as the death year; Weismann (2007) (p. 83), gives no birth year, and 1753 as the death year. Lipman (1998) does not give exact years for birth and death, and emphasizes differences between different historians' chronologies (p. 67); however, adding up lengths of time intervals in his biographical account implies that Ma would be close to 48 in 1728. The Great Chinese Encyclopedia (中国大百科全书, vol. 14 宗教 (Religion), p. 255) gives 1681-1766.
MaLaichi (1681? – 1766?; simplified Chinese: 马来迟; traditional Chinese: 馬來遲; pinyin: MǎLáichí; Wade–Giles: Ma Lai-chih), also known as Abu 'l-Futūh Ma...
is said that they have been converted to Islam by the Hui Sufi master MaLaichi (1681?–1766). Later, in the aftermath of the Dungan Rebellion (1862–1874)...
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memorial, Du asked Ma Dexin to intervene so that Ma Rulong would end the criminal act "of killing his fellow Muslims (tongjiao)" Ma Dexin was the most...
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the buildings were either assigned a different function or demolished. MaLaichi brought the Naqshbandi (نقشبندية) 納克什班迪 order to China, creating the Khufiyya...
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around the mausoleum of Ma Tai Baba ("The Great Father Ma", 1632–1709), a disciple of Khoja Afaq and the teacher of MaLaichi. Hua Si Gongbei (华寺拱北),...
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Qadiriyya into China proper. His two other spiritual descendants, MaLaichi and Ma Mingxin, went to study in Central Asia and Arabia, and upon return...
Songshan Kasim Tuet Liu Zhi Ma Anliang Ma Bufang Ma Buqing Ma Fuxiang Ma Gui Ma Hualong MaLaichiMa Mingxin Ma Qixi Ma Wanfu Ma Yize Ma Zhu Shams al-Din Su fei-erh...
defector to the Qing Ma Rulong. The Muslim scholar Ma Dexin, who said that Neo-Confucianism was reconcilable with Islam, approved of Ma Rulong defecting to...
China in 1761, Ma Mingxin founded the Jahriyya menhuan (order) (哲合忍耶; Zhéhérěnyē) - the second Naqshbandi order in China after MaLaichi's Khufiyya. In...
Persianate society. Tariqas were brought to China in the 17th century by MaLaichi and other Chinese Sufis who had studied in Mecca and Yemen, and had also...
Zhangs, being of the same family, celebrated New Year together up to 1949. MaLaichi established the Hua Si school (menhuan) – the core of the Khufiyya (خفيه;...
, MaLaichi or Ma Mingxin), and beyond, toward his teachers in Arabia. The term menhuan itself is of comparatively recent origin: according to Ma Tong...
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people, it is only with Han and Hui, but not Tibetans. In 1900, Generals Ma Fulu and Ma Fuxiang brought a Chinese Muslim troop comprising Dongxiang, Hui and...
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to convert other Muslims included people like Qi Jingyi, Ma Mingxin, Ma Qixi, and MaLaichi. Some Sufi orders wear distinctive headgear, a six cornered...
MaLaichi can be seen as another founding member of the Khufiyya order. Under the guidance of Ma Taibaba, a contemporary of Ma Shouzhen, MaLaichi was...
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