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Lin Nu
b. c. 1346Merchant and scholarAsia · 1346Most named place: Quanzhou
Lin Nu was a Chinese scholar and merchant in the early Ming dynasty who remained recorded for his travel to Ormuz in Persia. In Ormuz he converted to Islam, and married a Semu girl (either a Persian or an Arab girl) and returned back to Quanzhou in Fujian. His descendent L Zhi was a prominent Chinese philosopher, historian and writer of the late Ming Dynasty.
