Name: Gejiu
Address: Gejiu, Southeast Asia

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Ha Decheng

Chinese Muslim scholar from Nanzheng, Shaanxi (1888–1943), known by his religious name Hilal al-Din, a leading ahong of the Republic of China and one of the four great ahongs of modern China. He performed the hajj in 1913, co-founded the Shanghai Islamic Normal School in 1928, published Chinese translations of the first three volumes of the Qur'an, and spent his last years at Shadian helping his student Ma Jian translate the whole Qur'an.

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