Wang Daiyu, Chinese Muslim thinker

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ScholarChinese Muslim thinker

Wang Daiyu王岱舆

Approximate dateNanjing

The first to explain Islam in the language of Confucian China.

Raised in a Muslim family of Nanjing, he studied Confucian, Buddhist and Daoist texts. His True Explanation of the Orthodox Teaching presented Islamic belief in terms Chinese scholars could follow.

What grew out of it?

He opened the 'Han Kitab', a library of Islamic works written in Chinese.

Source: history · Wikipedia

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