Ma Zhan'ao — Chinese Wikipedia

Chinese Wikipedia article on Ma Zhan'ao; used for entity facts only. It records that his family were hereditary Islamic religious leaders, that at twenty he studied at the Great Mosque of Daxuexiang in Xi'an until he 'received the vestment' (graduated as an ahong), then served as ahong at the Monigou and Dahejia mosques belonging to the Huasi menhuan, led the Hezhou rebels, surrendered to the Qing in 1872 sending his son Ma Qiwu (Ma Anliang) to the enemy camp, and retired to Dahejia as an ahong; it dates his birth to 1830 and his death to 1886.