Note Horse Life And Thought

Ma Zhu is one of the Hui Zu representatives of interpreting and translating Islamic Works from Arabic into Chinese during Ming and Qing (1550-1750) dynasty. In this dissertation, I will mainly probe into the stories all about his life and his thoughts.I first of all reviewed the cause of the research, briefly introduced the research related text, one of Ma Zhu's famous works, Qingzhen Zhinan (The Guide Book of Islam) of its content. And I also reviewed and summarized some research work concerned with the topic I shall cover, pointed out the insufficient aspects of the outputs of the research by some scholars about Ma Zhu and his Qingzhen Zhinan. Based on these insufficiencies, I proposed my personal research approaches of him and his achievements: Guided by the dialectical materialism, implementing the research approaches of history, the sociology, and psychology etc. Concretely, depending on the official history, chorography and pedigree, history approach was taken on the research of Ma Zhu of his life experience, stories and correspondent events. Fieldwork of sociology was carried out for the investigation and the analysis of Ma Zhu's thoughts and its historical influences. Comprehensive contrastive approach was guided to the comparison of similarities and differences of Confucianism and Islam, and the analysis of the ideological foundation of the activities by "interpreting Islam with the knowledge and the ideology of Confucianism."In succession, Ma Zhu's life stories are covered from the perspective of the time Ma Zhu lived in as well as his family background. Ma Zhu is a scholar influenced by Confucianism at the early stage, later by Islam. He worked as a beadle during the Southern-Ming period. Ma Zhu started his study life after Ming dynasty finished its reign in 1659. He made quite a lot of friends on Islam Study, read various classic works in Arabic and Persian while teaching in Beijing. In ten years of effort, Ma Zhu finished his book Qingzhen Zhinan. Then he returned home with the book. On his way of home, he met with different masters, consistently enriched and recomposed the book and practiced his In-mosque education activities as well. His activities related to Arabic thoughts continued after his arrival at home. In this part, I developed his 4 periods of life contributions sequenced with the events happened on the way home: Before migrating...