 1739), or Liu Chih, was a Chinese Sunni Muslim scholar of the Qing dynasty, belonging to the Huiru (Muslim) school of Neoconfucian thought.He was the most prominent of the Han Kitab writers who attempted to explain Muslim thought in the Chinese intellectual climate for a Hui Chinese audience, by frequently borrowing terminologies from Buddhism, Taoism and most prominently Neoconfucianism and aligning them with Islamic concepts.He was from the city of Nanjing.