Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t3.1

v1.c7.s9.t3.1

In Sino-Islamic intellectual tradition, Ma Dexin (1794-1874), also known as Yusuf Ma, is widely recognised along with Wang Daiyu and Li Chi as the three brightest scholars of pre-modern China. All of them contributed greatly to the spread of tenets of Islam through the translation of original text into classical Chinese using the vocabulary of Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism. They were aptly called ‘Islamic Confucian’ scholars who produced a collection of Islamic and Confucian texts as the religious *Han Kitab*.