我的父亲马坚,1906年6月6日出生于云南省蒙自市一个有名的回族村落沙甸。沙甸是云南主要的回族世居地之一,二十世纪三十年代,我国派遣第一批赴埃及爱资哈尔大学留学的五名学生中,就有四名来自沙甸。父亲就是其中的一位。父亲自幼酷爱学习,六岁入小学,利用晚上时间,跟当地阿訇在清真寺中学习阿拉伯语,开始接触《古兰经》等伊斯兰经典。父亲十 My father, Ma Jian, was born on June 6, 1906 in Shadian, a well-known Hui village in Mengzi, Yunnan Province. Sardinia is one of the major Muslim settlements in Yunnan. In the 1930s, four of our five students who sent our first study abroad to Egypt’s Al-Azhar University came from Sardinia. Father is one of them. My father loved to learn since he was young. He entered elementary school at the age of six and used his evening time to learn Arabic from the local imam in the mosque and to get started with Islamic scriptures such as the Qur’an. Father ten