Ma Anliang — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Ma Anliang; used for entity facts only. It records a Chinese Muslim general born at Hezhou in 1855, son of Ma Zhan'ao, who defected with his father to the Qing in 1872 and — its text states, citing Dillon — belonged with his father and their companions to the Huasi menhuan of the Khafiya Naqshbandi Sufi order; he became the de facto senior leader of the Muslims of northwest China from 1912 until his death at Hezhou on 24 November 1918.