Tahir Jalaluddin

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Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin ( 1869 - 1956 ) from the area of Bukit Tinggi in the Minangkabau highlands , West Sumatra , was an Indonesian Islamic scholar and important representative of the Islamic reform movement in Malaya, which was influenced by the modernist ideas of the Arab reformers Jamal ad-Din al -Afghani (d. 1879), Muhammad Abduh (1849–1905) and Raschīd Ridā (d. 1935) was strongly influenced. He studied in Cairo , Egypt , at al-Azhar and was friends with Raschīd Ridā. He was the son of a famous Nakschibendi sheikh of the Minangkabau.

With Syed Sheikh al-Hady, he founded the first Islamic reformist magazine in the archipelago , which was called al-Imam and was published in Singapore from 1906 to 1908 . Al-Imam has been described as "a bomb shell on the quiet scene of Islam".

He was involved in creating a new generation of Islamic organizations and founding religious publications and modern religious schools. Modern religious schools have been established in Padang , Jakarta and other places. He was supported by the Islamic circles of Sumatra and Java . In his later years he lectured in Sumatra, Jakarta and other places and spread the modern ideas of reform. He enjoyed a high reputation in the circles of Indonesian Islamic science. In Indonesia he is considered a pioneer of Islamic reform .

literature

  • Merle Calvin Ricklefs: A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1200. 2002 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
  • Shamsul AB & Azmi Aziz: "Colonial Knowledge and the Reshaping of Islam, the Muslim and Islamic Education in Malaysia", p. 113 ff., In: Kamaruzzaman Bustamam-Ahmad & Patrick Jory, eds .: Islamic Studies and Islamic Education in Contemporary Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur: Yayasan Ilmuwan 2011 ( Online at espace.library.uq.edu.au )
  • Mohd. Nasir bin Abd. Hamid: The Role of the iṣlāḥ Movement in the State's Constitution of Perlis . Malaysia. 2009 ( online )
  • Claude Guillot, Denys Lombard, Roderich Ptak (Eds.): From the Mediterranean to the China Sea: Miscellaneous Notes. 1998 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)

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References and footnotes

  1. Jamal al-Din al-Afghani taught in Egypt and was a propagator of pan-Islamism and anti-colonialism .
  2. See also his journal al-Manār .
  3. Shamsul AB & Azmi Aziz, p. 125.
  4. cf. Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi (britannica.com)
  5. cf. Charles Kurzman : Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: A Sourcebook. 2002, p. 339 ff. ( Partial view in the Google book search)
  6. Azmi Aziz & Mostafa Kamal Mokhtar: "Transisi Penting Sistem Berkerajaan di Alam Melayu: Kes Malaysia / Major Transitions in the Government System of the Malay World: The Case of Malaysia." Akademika 81 (2) 2011: 79-92 ( ukm.my ( memento of the original from October 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this reference. ) - See also Ahmad Faisal Mohd Fiah: Role of al-Imam in Malay Transformation until 1941 . 2011 International Conference on Social Science and Humanity IPEDR vol. 5 (2011), p. 83. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ukm.my
  7. norislam.com: Tahir Jalal al-Din (Yang Keli) - accessed November 19, 2017