SUFI MASTERS OF CHINA Men Huan is not a unified sect of Islamic thought in China but a common name given to the more than thirty Sufi sub-sects. The name “Men Huan” is the name that Chinese Sufis called themselves as early as the 18th century. In the 1730s a Chinese Sufi saint Ma Laichi (Abul Futuh, 1681—1766) begin rapidly spreading the Naqshbandi order among Muslims in Hezhou (today’s Linxia of Gansu province) as well as the Xunhua of Qinghai province. A community grew around him, later known as Huasi Men Huan. Ma Laichi was followed a decade later by another Chinese Sufi master Ma Mingxin (1719--1781) after his return from Yemen with teachings of the Naqshbandi Sufi order later known as Jahriyya. In time, all Sufi teachings, regardless of their origin or distinguishing characteristics were referred to as Men Huan. Men Huan in China today can be broadly divided into three orders e.g. Naqshbandiyya, Qadiriyya, Kubrawiyya, see : islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/china/sects-and-legal-schools-muslims-china/men-huan-sufi
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