Ma Anliang
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Awards | "Second class Wenhu and Chiaho decorations"[1] |
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Military career
He defected to Qing in 1872 during the
General Ma Anliang joined the Qing General Zuo Zongtang, in the campaign against the Turkic Muslim rebels under Yaqub Beg. Ma Anliang led an entire army composed of Chinese Muslim troops against Yaqub Beg's Turkic Muslim forces, and defeated him, reconquering Turkestan for China.[7]
In 1895, he served with the Han Chinese general
His Muslim cavalry defeated Muslim rebels at Oxheart Mountain, and relieved the siege of Hezhou on December 4. He led Hui cavalry troops to slaughter rebel Salar Muslim fighters who had agreed to negotiate unarmed at a banquet by telling them "Disown me as a Muslim if I deceive you.", and received the rank ofDuring that war, in 1895 Ma lifted the siege of Xining (sining) with four ying (ying is a Chinese unit for battalion). Ma was assigned to "Barkul military command" sometime before 1910.[13][14]
During the Hundred Days' Reform in 1898 Dong Fuxiang, Ma Anliang, and Ma Haiyan were called to Beijing and helped put an end to the reform movement along with Ma Fulu and Ma Fuxiang.
In 1900, during the Boxer Rebellion, Ma Anliang, as Tongling of Ho-Chou joined Dong Fuxiang in fighting against the foreigners.[15]
In 1905, Ma Anliang, in cooperation with the Han Chinese magistrate Yang Zengxin, attempted to arrest and execute the Yihewani (Ikhwan in Arabic) leader Ma Wanfu. Ma Qi, one of Ma Anliang's subordinates, staged a rescue operation and brought Ma Wanfu to Xining.[16]
Even though he was a Muslim, he and his Muslim troops showed no mercy to Muslims who rebelled against the
In 1911, when the
Hui General Ma Anliang abandoned the Qing cause upon the Qing abdication in the Xinhai Revolution while the Manchu governor general Shengyun was enraged at the revolution.[19][20]
Pro-revolution Hui Muslims like Shaanxi Governor Ma Yugui and Beijing Imam Wang Kuan persuaded Qing Hui general Ma Anliang to stop fighting, telling him as Muslims not to kill each other for the sake of the Qing monarchists and side with the republican revolutionaries instead. Ma Anliang then agreed to abandon the Qing under the combination of Yuan Shikai's actions and these messages from other Hui.[21]
In October 1903, in
Political and religious orientation
Ma Anliang fought against the
In 1914, Ma Anliang tried to exterminate the "New New Sect", the Xidaotang and its leader Ma Qixi (his Arabic name was Ersa (Jesus), he was known as "Prophet Jesus" to westerners).[26][27]
General Ma Anliang was the de facto senior leader of all Muslims in northwestern China from the beginning of the Republican era in 1912 until he died. He was succeeding by General Ma Fuxiang in this position.[28]
Ma Anliang was considered "reactionary", while the learned "scholar" General Ma Fuxiang was considered "progressive".[29]
In 1917 Ma Anliang ordered his younger brother
He died in Hezhou (Hochow) on November 24, 1918.[31][32] After his death, Ma Anliang was praised by American Vice-Consul at Kalgan, Rodney Gilbert in the Herald for keeping peace in Gansu, which he maintained by his willingness to fight against his fellow Muslims.[33] Ma Anliang was also praised for protecting "his people from sectarian strife and opium".[34]
Ma Fuxiang effectively took Ma Anliang's place as de facto leader of Muslims in northwest China when Ma Anliang died in 1918.[35][36]
Family
His father was Ma Zhan'ao and his brother was Ma Guoliang.
He had 5 sons,
Peerage
Yuan Shikai made Ma Anliang a Baron of the First Rank (一等男; Yī děng nán) of the
See also
References
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Ma Anliang attacked Shaanxi successfully, and Yuan Shikai took the invasion seriously enough to alert eastern troops to move against him.
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On his order, Wang was executed.66 According to Yuan Shikai, the most important ... to arrest bad elements and protect the people (chubao'anliang), ...
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This message by Wang may have contributed to breaking the resistance of Ma Anliang, who had in any case, come under strong pressure of Yuan Shikai's ...
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- ^ Samuel Marinus Zwemer, ed. (1920). The Moslem World. Vol. 10. New York: Christian Literature Society for India, Hartford Seminary Foundation. p. 381. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
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- ^ Fleisher, Benjamin Wilfried, ed. (1922). The Trans-Pacific, Volume 6. B. W. Fleisher. p. 47. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
- ^ Travels Of A Consular Officer In North-West China. CUP Archive. 1921. p. vi. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
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- This article incorporates text from The Moslem World, Volume 10, by Christian Literature Society for India, Hartford Seminary Foundation, a publication from 1920, now in the public domain in the United States.