Muhammad Ma Jian

Muhammad Ma Jian, or Muhammad Makin was a Chinese Islamic scholar and translator.

Born in Yunnan, Ma Jian went to Shanghai to pursue his studies in 1928. In 1931, he left China for Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, becoming one of the first Chinese students to study in Al-Azhar. While in Cairo, he wrote a book in Arabic about Islam in China, and translated the ''Analects'' into Arabic. He returned to China in 1939. There he edited the ''Arabic-Chinese Dictionary'' and translated the ''Qur'an'' and other Islamic works. He became a professor of Beijing University in 1946. In 1981, the China Social Science Press published his Chinese version of ''the Qur'an''; an Arabic-Chinese bilingual version was later published by the Madinah-based King Fahd Holy Qur'an Printing Press.