Nuruddin ar-Raniri

Shaykh Nuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri

Nuruddin ibn Ali ar-Raniri (Arabic: نورالدين بن علي الرانيري) (also transliterated Nur ud-Din ar-Raniri / Randeri, died 1658) was an Islamic mystic and scholar from Rander in Surat province[1] of Gujarat, in India, who worked for several years in the court of the sultan of Aceh in what is now Indonesia. He was the most prolific of the authors of the Acehnese court, and helped contribute to its international reputation as a center of scholarship. His work was considered the oldest Muslim scholarship of Southeast Asia.[2]

  1. ^ Om Prakash; Denys Lombard (1999). Om Prakash; Denys Lombard (eds.). Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1800. Manohar. p. 195. ISBN 9788173042652.
  2. ^ Ali, Abdul Karim; Hashim, Jamaluddin (2008). "Kitab Al-Sirat Al-Mustaqim Oleh Shaykh Nur Al-Din Al-Raniri: Satu Sorotan". Jurnal Fiqh. 5: 197–215. doi:10.22452/fiqh.vol5no1.9 – via ResearchGate.

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