Ma Dexin
| Yusuf Ma Dexin | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 馬德新 | ||||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 马德新 | ||||||||
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| Courtesy name (字) | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 復初 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 复初 | ||||||||
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| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Mă Déxīn |
| Wade–Giles | Ma Te-hsin |
| Transcriptions | |
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Fùchū |
| Wade–Giles | Fu-ch'u |
Yusuf Ma Dexin (also Ma Tesing; 1794–1874) was a Hui Chinese scholar of Islam from Yunnan, known for his fluency and proficiency in both Arabic and Persian, and for his knowledge of Islam. He also went by the Chinese name Ma Fuchu. He used the Arabic name Abd al-Qayyum Ruh al-Din Yusuf (عبد القيوم روح الدين يوسف). He was also styled as "Mawlana al-Hajj Yusuf Ruh al-Din Ma Fujuh" (مولانا الحاج يوسف روح الدين ما فو جوه).
Sayyid Ajjal Shams al-Din Omar was an ancestor in the 25th generation of Ma Dexin.
Ma performed the Hajj in 1841, leaving China by a circuitous route; as ocean travel out of China had been disrupted by the Opium War, he chose instead to leave with a group of Muslim merchants travelling overland. After passing through Xishuangbanna, they went south to Burma, then took a riverboat along the Irrawaddy River from Mandalay to Rangoon. From Rangoon, they were able to board a steamship which took them all the way to the Arabian Peninsula. After his time in Mecca, he stayed in the Middle East for another eight years; he first went to Cairo, where he studied at Al-Azhar University, then travelled throughout the Ottoman Empire, going to Suez, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Istanbul, Cyprus, and Rhodes.
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