Nuruddin al-Raniri

Nuruddin al-Raniri was born in Rander, in Gujarat, to an Indian father and a Malay mother. Trained in Arabia in a Sufi path, a jurist of the Shafi'i rite as much as a mystic, he reached Aceh in 1637 and became the sheikh of Islam to Sultan Iskandar Thani. He had the doctrines of two mystic poets who had preceded him at court condemned as heretical, had their books burned and their disciples persecuted. Having fallen into disgrace under the sultan's widow, he left Aceh in 1644 and died in India in 1658.

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• NovelBustan as-SalatinNuruddin al-Raniri · 1638not translated into EnglishLiterature