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Download Download THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF ABDULLAH BIN NUH’S WORKS1 Mohammad Noviani Ardi Fatimah Abdullah AbsAbstracttract TheThe topictopiic on ttheheh comingcommini g of IIslamslam ttoo ththehe MalayMalay worldworld hahass bebecomeecome an intellectualintellectual debatedebatte amongammong scholarsscholal rss aroundaroounu d ththee worldworlld forfof r bothbob thh MMuslimuslim and WeWesternsts ern scholars.schoh lars. ThereThT ere are at least fourfour elementsele emennts ofof debatedebatet on thesethese isissues,ssues, in particular,particular, on the orooriginalityiginality of IIslamicsls ammic ddoctrinesoctrinnes in the MaMMalaylal y world,world,d the ttheoryheoro y of tthehhe ccomingommini g of IIslamsls am ttoo thtthee MaMalaylay woworld,orld,d ttheheh ttimesimess of the comingcoomim ng ooff IsIslamlam as wellwell as ttheheh sspreadingprreae did ngg ofof IsIslamlaam in tthehehe Nusantara.Nusantara. 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Keywords: Colonization, Civilization, Culture, and Nusantara 1 Article received: March 2017; Article accepted: April 2018. 247 MOHAMMAD NOVIANI ARDI Introduction Islam is not just the name of a religion as the final revelation, but, it was also revealed to all human beings as the model of guidance for life including its doctrines, virtues, values, civilization and culture based on the Al-Qur’an and Hadith of His messenger. Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his book Islam: Religion, History and Civilization, stated that Islam is religion (al-Dīn) and civilization: IIslamslam is not onlyonlly a religion;rer liigion; it isis alsoalsoo thetheh creator aandnd llivingiving spiritspiriit of a mmajoraja oro worworldldd ccivilizationivvillizizattioon withwiw th a long hhistoryistory stretchingsttrer tchih ngg ooverver fofourteenuru teteen ccenturies.ene turir es. 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Finally, history has also been altered by them, particularly the history of the coming of Islam to the Nusantara archipelago by Dutch scholars. 248 THE HISTORY OF ISLAM IN THE MALAY ARCHIPELAGO: AN ANALYTICAL STUDY OF ABDULLAH BIN NUH’S WORKS This paper presents an attempt to rediscover the history of the coming of Islam to the Nusantara particularly Indonesia with reference to works by Abdullah bin Nuh2 who is seen to have had major impact on Indonesian Muslim scholarship along with M. Hamka, Aboebakar Atjeh, and M. Rasidji. The special aspect of Abdullah bin Nuh’s writing can be seen in his referring to the turath books (the previous ulamas works) and using semantic method in order to facilitate assimilationassimilatiion ofof Arabic language with Nusantara llanguageanguage at that period.period.d AbdullahAbdullah bbininn NNuh:uhuh: BiBBiography,ogo raphp y,y WWorksoro ks aandndd CContributionono trribi ution to InIndonesiadonesia AbAbdullahduulllahh binbin NuhNuhu waswas bornborn onon 3 JuJummādā al-Ūlā 1313243244 HH/30/3/30thth June 1905,19055, in ttheheh smallsmam lll towntown of Cianjur, surroundedsurroundded bbyy thtthehe hihhighlandsghlaands of WestWest ooff JaJava.vava.3 HeHe grew up ini ttheheh high religireligiousous mimilieuilieuu wwithitth hihhiss fafamilyamily andandd inin ana IslamicIslamicc environment.envvironnmentn . HiHHiss father waswas K.H.K.H. RadenRaaded n MuMuhammadhammm add Nuh,Nuhh, one ofo thethe prominentprorominen ntt ululamaslammasa in Cianjur.Ciannjuj r.. HisHisis ffatherattheh r wawass alsoala so anan adadherentherent ooff ththehe Ṭaarrīqaqqahh ala -TiTTijijāniniyyahyyy ah ffromrom ShShaikhhaikhk AAlili ThThoyib,hoyyib, anaandd ininfluencednflf uenced hhimimi ttowardsowo ardsd Sufism.Suffissm.m Moreover,Moreover, K.H.K.HH. RadenRaR den MuMMuhammadhahammm add NNuhuh was ffamousammouus fofforr hihisis knknowledgeowwledgd e of IhIhyahya UUlumuddinlumum ddd in (G((Ghazhazālī’s greatgreatt book), whwhichicch waswawas subsequentlysuubsb eqe uenttlyl learnedlearned bbyy AbAAbdullahbdullahh bibbinn NuNNuh.h.h AAbdullahbdb ulu lah bibinn NuNNuh’suh’h s momothertherr wwasas ‘Aisy‘Aisyah,ah, whowho waswas a dadaughteraughtterr ooff AhAhmad,mam d, who ddescendedescended ffromrom a grgreateaat sasaint,aini t, ‘‘AbdulAbA dud l alal-Muhyi-MMuhu yi (the(ththe greatgrg eat ulama ooff Pamijahan in the WeWWestst JJava).avva)). ‘A‘AbdulAbdul alal--MuMuhyi’suhyi’i s descendantdesccendad ntt was Syarif Hidayat, amongamom ngng thetheh veneratedvennerata ed ululamaama at tthathaat pepperiod.riiodd.4 2 Among his worksworkss arearee SejarahSeS jaj rah IslamIslam did JawaJawa a BaratBaarat hinggahih ngggaa ZamanZamaman Keemasan Banten, RingkaRingkasansaan SejarahSejaraah WaliWaW lil Songo,Sono goo, alal-Isll-IIsllām Fī IndInI dūnīsiyysiyyy ā, andand hishis workwork withwith AA.. Shahab in the SSeminareminarr ooff thtthee HiHistorysttoro y ofo ttheheh CComingomo inng ofof IslIslamama to Indonesia held at Medan tahun 1963. 3 A.P.B.,AiiSjh Panitia Sejarah, ArabanAb Press Board: dS Sejarah hd dan Perjuangannya. (Jakarta: Panitia Sejarah A.P.B., 1986); A. Z. Dahlan, Al-Hijrah min Allah Ila Allah. (Bogor, 1987). 4 N. H. Lubis, “Pustaka Unpad.” Last modified November 30, 2015, http://pustaka.unpad.ac.id; M. Muhsin, “Penyebaran Islam di Jawa Barat.” (paper presented at National Workshop Sejarah Perjuangan Syaikhuna Badruzzaman, 2010); S. Antonio, Al-Ghazali dari Indonesia: KH. Abdullah bin Nuh. (Jakarta: Tazkia Publishing, 2015). 249 MOHAMMAD NOVIANI ARDI In addition, beside his family, Abdullah bin Nuh’s teachers
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