K.H. Ahmad Hanafiah and His Intellectual Networks With Other Muslim Scholars in the Malay Islamic World

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10.2991/assehr.k.201113.003How to use a DOI?

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Muslim scholars from Lampung, the Malay-Islamic world, intellectual networks, Ahmad Hanafiah

Abstract

KH. Ahmad Hanafiah is recorded as one of the Indonesian Sufi martyrs during the war against the Dutch colonial army, in what is now the province of Lampung, Sumatera, in 1947. Yet, his role as a prominent ulama and Islamic thinker in Lampung is not widely known due to the scarcity of research and publication about his intellectual biography. Based on this gap, this paper is aimed at studying the biography of KH. Ahmad Hanafiah both as a sufi-hero and a Muslim scholar (ulama’). In doing so, it will use a descriptive and qualitative method, focusing on collection of his books stored in Sukadana, and analyzing their contents by way of hermeneutics and historical analyses toward his socio-political and intellectual backgrounds. This study emphasizes the entitlement of KH. Ahmad Hanafiah as a Lampung Sufi-hero is acknowledged by both the government’s and scholar’s records and by oral traditions of the Lampung people. His intellectualism is represented not only by his works but also by his book collections existing in Sukadana, Lampung. In this regard, this study finds out that his intellectual oeuvre is closely connected to the thoughts of some prominent scholars of the 18th and 19th Malay Islamic world, such as Syeikh Abd al-Shamad al-Jawi al-Palimbani, Syeikh Yusuf al-Makassari, Syeikh Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari, and K.H. Hasyim Asy’ari.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wan Jamaluddin
AU  - Zughrofiyatun Najah
AU  - Imam Nafiudin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/11/13
TI  - K.H. Ahmad Hanafiah and His Intellectual Networks With Other Muslim Scholars in the Malay Islamic World
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Raden Intan International Conference on Muslim Societies and Social Sciences (RIICMuSSS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 12
EP  - 16
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201113.003
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201113.003
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