Born in 1930, professor at Minzu University of China, an outstanding Muslim scholar in modern China, a native of Shadian Village, Gejiu City, Yunnan Province, and a Hui nationality. Mr. Yahaya Sanabel Linsong studied at Shadian Yangzheng School before liberation. He was taught by famous Muslim scholars Ma Jian, Professor Bai Shouyi and Imam Hadchen. In the early 1950s, he came to work in Beijing. In 1975 He was transferred to Beijing Normal University to participate in the compilation of "General History of China" edited by Bai Shouyi. In 1979, he was transferred to the Chinese Department of the Central University for Nationalities (now the School of Literature and Journalism) to teach and engage in classical literature teaching and research. He became the director and professor of the Classical Literature Teaching and Research Office. , a master's degree tutor, began to enjoy special government subsidies from the State Council in 1992 due to his contribution to higher education for ethnic minorities.
Professor Lin Song comes from a family of Hajis (Muslims who have made pilgrimages to the holy land of Mecca). His father Lin Xinghua and uncle Lin Xingzhi were both international students at Al-Azhar University in Egypt in the early 1930s. Influenced by his environment and family, he has a strong interest in Islamic academic culture. Therefore, in addition to engaging in classical literature research and related professional teaching in the Chinese Department, scientific research projects also take into account the study of historical and Islamic culture topics, with this focus, and even cross-department and interdisciplinary topics are developed in the Department of Ethnology and the Department of Philosophy Give lectures, or recruit graduate students.