Imam Hu Songshan | |
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虎嵩山阿訇 | |
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Title | Ahong |
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Born | 1880 |
Died | 1955 (aged 74–75) |
Religion | Yihewani Hanafi Sunni islam |
Senior posting | |
Based in | Ningxia, China |
Period in office | 1927–1955 |
Post | Imam and scholar of the Yihewani,[1][2] scripturalist,[3] theologian.[4] |
Hu Songshan | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 虎嵩山 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 虎嵩山 | ||||||||||
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Hu Songshan (1880–1955), a Hui, was born in 1880, in Tongxin County, Ningxia, China. His Muslim name in Arabic was Sa'd al-Din (Arabic: سعد الدين Sa'd ad-Dīn; simplified Chinese: 赛尔敦丁; traditional Chinese: 賽爾敦丁; pinyin: sài ěr dūn dīng). Although he was born Sufi and turned Wahhabi, he changed his views and turned his back on Wahhabism after a Hajj to Mecca and later became an important imam, scripturalist, and leader of the Yihewani Muslim sect in China. He was influential and played an important role in Chinese Islam in this position as he propagated reformist doctrines in Ningxia in his later life. Hu also played a role in rallying Muslims against the Japanese invasion of China.[5]
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