Al-Ghazz?l?''s Influence on Malay Thinkers: A Study of Shaykh ?Abd al-?amad al-Palimb?n?

Al-Ghazz?l?'sInfluence on Malay Thinkers: A Study of Shaykh ?Abd al-?amad al-Palimb?n? -Hardcover & Dust jacket

Author: Megawati Moris

Publisher: Islamicand Strategic Studies Institute(ISSI) Malaysia

ISBN: 9789671131251
Price: RM88.00
Pages: 247pp
Weight: 0.534kg

Dr.Megawati's work is significant when viewed from the broader context ofMalay-Islamic thought and civilization as a whole. Through her study of thelife and works of ?Abd al-?amad al-Palimb?n?, she has already succeeded inhighlighting the significance of the place and role of Palembang as a centre ofIslamic learning in its historical and intellectual relationships with the restof the Malay world. Her inclusion in this work of a study of Shaykh Dawudal-Fatani, another amjor Malay scholar, who is a contemporary of ?Abd al-?amadal-Palimb?n? but who hailed from another part of the Malay world helps us tobetter appreciate the significance of the network of religious scholars in theregion during eighteenth century. Pattani in southern Thailand, Shaykh D?wudal-Fatani's birthplace, used to be a major centre of Malay-Islamic learning.Dr. Megawati shows that as contemporaneous centres of Malay-Islamicintellectual thought Palembang and Pattani actually shared a common interestand concern with the thoughts of al-Ghazz?l? and Ibn al-?Arab?. She was thusable to strengthen her thesis that affirms the remarkable depth and breath ofal-Ghazz?l?'s influence in the Malay world.