An African Scholar in the Netherlands East Indies: al- Shaykh Ahmad Surkitti (1876–1943) and His Life, Thoughts, and Reforms
Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad al-Surkitti (1876–1943) was an important figure in the Islamic reform movement in early twentieth-century Indonesia. He was born in the Sudan in 1876, studied in Mecca and Madina for fourteen years (1897–1911), and established his career as a school teacher and a celebrated ref...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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Islamic Africa
Year: 2011, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 23-50 |
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| Summary: | Shaykh Ahmad Muhammad al-Surkitti (1876–1943) was an important figure in the Islamic reform movement in early twentieth-century Indonesia. He was born in the Sudan in 1876, studied in Mecca and Madina for fourteen years (1897–1911), and established his career as a school teacher and a celebrated reformist leader in Indonesia (1911–1943). The purpose of this article is to examine the early life and career of al-Surkitti in the Sudan and Saudi Arabia, and assess critically his contribution to the islah and tajdid movements in the Malay-Indonesian world. His intellectual and religio-political discord and conflict with the Alawi traditionalists will be investigated in the context of Hahdarmi identity and discourse between “orthodox Islam” propagated by Surkitti and his followers and “popular Islam” that gave the Alawi sayyids special recognition in their home society in Hadramaut and diaspora in Indonesia. |
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| ISSN: | 2154-0993 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Islamic Africa
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5192/21540993020223 |