Tags: Religious.
Hu Songshan (1880–1955) a Hui was born in 1880 in Tongxin County Ningxia China. His Muslim name in Arabic was Sa’d al-Din (Arabic: سعد الدين Sa’d ad-Dīn (simplified Chinese: 赛尔敦丁; traditional Chinese: 賽爾敦丁; pinyin: sài ěr dūn dīng). Although he was born Sufi and turned Wahhabi he changed his views and turned his back on Wahhabism after a Hajj to Mecca and later became an important Imam scripturalist and leader of the Yihewani Muslim sect in China.
