Nur al-Din al-Raniri

Nur al-Din al-Raniri

Indian Islamic scholar based in 17th-century Aceh

📍 Surat, Gujarat India

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Nur al-Din Muhammad ibn 'Ali ibn Hasanji al-Hamid al-Shafi'i al-Ash'ari al-'Aydarusi al-Randeri was an Islamic mystic and scholar from Rander in Surat province 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.

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