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Fakih Usman was born on 2 March 1904, in Gresik, East Java, in what was then the Dutch East Indies.His father, Usman Iskandar, was a wood merchant, and his mother, a housewife, was the daughter of an ulama (scholar of Islam). [1]
The Padri movement, which has been compared to the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jamaah school of Islam in the now Saudi Arabia, was an effort to return the Islam of the area to the purity of its roots by removing local distortions like gambling, cockfighting, the use of opium and strong drink, tobacco, and so forth.
Haji Rasul's son Hamka was a prominent ulama, politician, and author.His grandsons, Rusydi Hamka, is a politician, a member of DPR from United Development Party and Sutan Amrull, is a noted makeup artist and drag performer in the United States, known by the stage name Raja Gemini who won the third season of RuPaul's Drag Race and returned to compete on the winners-only seventh season of RuPaul ...
Mahmud Yunus (Old Spelling: Mahmoed Joenoes) (February 10, 1899 – January 16, 1982) was an Indonesian Minangkabau Islamic preacher and teacher. [1] He authored over seventy-five books, including Tafsir Qur'an Karim ("Interpretation of the Karim Koran") and an Arab-Indonesian dictionary.
The following is a list of Islamic scholars who are Converts to Islam. Abdalqadir as-Sufi; Bilal Philips; Frithjof Schuon; Hamza Yusuf; Hussein Ye; Ibn Yaḥyā al-Maghribī al-Samawʾal; Ivan Aguéli; Joel Hayward; John Mohammed Butt; Joseph E. B. Lumbard; Khalid Blankinship; Khalid Yasin; Malcolm X; Marmaduke Pickthall; Martin Lings; Michael ...
Maulana Al-Habib Muhammad Luthfi bin Ali bin Yahya (born November 10, 1947), colloquially known as Habib Luthfi, is an Arab Indonesian Islamic sheikh, kyai and preacher from Pekalongan, Central Java, who has served as a member of the Indonesian Presidential Advisory Council since December 2019.
The history of Islam is believed by most historians [1] to have originated with Muhammad's mission in Mecca and Medina at the start of the 7th century CE, [2] [3] although Muslims regard this time as a return to the original faith passed down by the Abrahamic prophets, such as Adam, Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Solomon, and Jesus, with the submission (Islām) to the will of God.
Islam Nusantara or Indonesian (Islamic) model is a term used to refer to the empirical form of Islam that was developed in the Nusantara (Indonesian archipelago). This term was introduced and promoted by the Indonesian Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in 2015, as a rejection of Wahhabism .