Nur al-Din al-Raniri, Scholar at the Aceh court
ScholarScholar at the Aceh court
Nur al-Din al-Raniriنور الدين الرانيري
Approximate dateBanda Aceh
A Gujarati scholar who served the sultans of Aceh and wrote a great history of the world in Malay.
Born in Rander in Gujarat, he came to Aceh and wrote Bustan al-Salatin, an encyclopedic world history in Malay, for Sultan Iskandar Thani. He also wrote al-Sirat al-Mustaqim, a Malay manual of fiqh, and attacked the teachings of Hamzah Fansuri's followers.
What grew out of it?
His books shaped Malay Islamic writing for generations.
Who else is linked?
Source: history · Wikipedia
Everyone and everything in the timeline
People named in the Quran and the hadith, the Prophet's ﷺ family and Companions, scholars, rulers, the nations of the Quran, the world's empires and the places where it all happened. Where scholars differ, each entry says so.
Scholars
- Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali
- Sa'id ibn al-Musayyib
- Urwah ibn al-Zubayr
- Al-Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr
- Amrah bint Abd al-Rahman
- Aisha bint Talhah
- Umm al-Darda
- Hasan al-Basri
- Muhammad ibn Sirin
- Hafsa bint Sirin
- Ata ibn Abi Rabah
- Mujahid ibn Jabr
- Ikrimah mawla Ibn Abbas
- Sa'id ibn Jubayr
- Ibrahim al-Nakha'i
- Wahb ibn Munabbih
- Nafi' mawla Ibn Umar
- Ibn Shihab al-Zuhri
- Ja'far al-Sadiq
- Abu Hanifa
- Malik ibn Anas
- Al-Awza'i
- Al-Layth ibn Sa'd
- Sufyan al-Thawri
- Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak
- Abu Yusuf
- Muhammad al-Shaybani
- Al-Shafi'i
- Ahmad ibn Hanbal
- Sahnun
- Yahya ibn Yahya al-Laythi
- Al-Bukhari
- Muslim ibn al-Hajjaj
- Abu Dawud
- Al-Tirmidhi
- Al-Nasa'i
- Ibn Majah
- Al-Daraqutni
- Al-Hakim al-Nishapuri
- Al-Bayhaqi
- Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi
- Ibn Abd al-Barr
- Ibn Hazm
- Qadi Iyad
- Ibn Asakir
- Ibn al-Jawzi
- Ibn Qudamah
- Al-Izz ibn Abd al-Salam
- Al-Nawawi
- Al-Dhahabi
- Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani
- Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli
- Al-Suyuti
- Ibn Abidin
- Al-Shawkani
- Al-Tabari
- Al-Baghawi
- Al-Zamakhshari
- Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
- Al-Qurtubi
- Ibn Kathir
- Rabi'ah al-Adawiyyah
- Al-Junayd al-Baghdadi
- Abu Mansur al-Maturidi
- Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari
- Al-Mawardi
- Al-Qushayri
- Al-Juwayni
- Al-Ghazali
- Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani
- Ibn Arabi
- Rumi
- Sa'di
- Ibn Taymiyyah
- Ibn al-Qayyim
- Baha al-Din Naqshband
- Mu'in al-Din Chishti
- Nizam al-Din Awliya
- Ahmad Sirhindi
- Abdullah ibn Alawi al-Haddad
- Shah Waliullah
- Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab
- Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad
- Sibawayh
- Ibn Muqla
- Mahmud al-Kashgari
- Ibn Malik
- Ibn Manzur
- Ibn Ajurrum
- Asim ibn Abi al-Najud
- Hafs ibn Sulayman
- Nafi' al-Madani
- Warsh
- Al-Qasim al-Shatibi
- Ibn al-Jazari
- Jabir ibn Hayyan
- Al-Khwarizmi
- Al-Kindi
- Banu Musa
- Abbas ibn Firnas
- Al-Battani
- Abu Bakr al-Razi
- Al-Farabi
- Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi
- Al-Zahrawi
- Ibn al-Haytham
- Al-Biruni
- Ibn Sina
- Omar Khayyam
- Al-Idrisi
- Ibn Rushd
- Al-Jazari
- Ibn al-Baytar
- Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
- Ibn al-Nafis
- Ibn al-Shatir
- Jamshid al-Kashi
- Taqi al-Din
- Piri Reis
- Mimar Sinan
- Ustad Ahmad Lahori
- Sayyida Nafisa
- Fatima al-Fihri
- Al-Ijliyyah
- Sutayta al-Mahamali
- Karima al-Marwaziyya
- Shuhda al-Katibah
- Fatima al-Samarqandi
- Zaynab bint al-Kamal
- A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah
- Ibn Ishaq
- Al-Waqidi
- Ibn Hisham
- Ibn Sa'd
- Al-Baladhuri
- Al-Mas'udi
- Ibn Fadlan
- Al-Muqaddasi
- Ibn Jubayr
- Yaqut al-Hamawi
- Ibn al-Athir
- Ibn Battuta
- Ibn Khaldun
- Al-Maqrizi
- Zheng He
- Ahmad Baba
- Ebussuud Efendi
- Katip Celebi
- Evliya Celebi
- Abu Ishaq al-Shatibi
- Muhammad al-Jazuli
- Al-Maghili
- Ahmad al-Tijani
- Usman dan Fodio
- Muhammad ibn Ali al-Sanusi
- Nana Asma'u
- Uways al-Barawi
- Habib Salih
- Ahmadu Bamba
- Hamzah Fansuri
- Wang Daiyu
- Nur al-Din al-Raniri
- Abd al-Rauf al-Singkili
- Liu Zhi
- Nawawi al-Bantani
- Ahmad Dahlan
- Hasyim Asy'ari
- Shihab al-Din Marjani
- Sayyid Ahmad Khan
- Muhammad Qasim Nanautawi
- Muhammad Abduh
- Marmaduke Pickthall
- Said Nursi
- Muhammad Iqbal
- Abd al-Hamid ibn Badis
- Asad ibn al-Furat
- Rashid al-Din
- Qol Sharif
- Ibrahim Muteferrika
- Ayuba Suleiman Diallo
- Omar ibn Said
- Jamal al-Din al-Afghani
- Si Kaddour Benghabrit
- Hasan al-Banna
- Mahmoud Khalil al-Husary
- Ibrahim ibn Adham
- Thabit ibn Qurra
- Al-Mutanabbi
- Firdawsi
- Ali Hujwiri
- Al-Bakri
- Attar of Nishapur
- Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi
- Shams Tabrizi
- Hafiz
- Jami
- Bihzad
- Zayn al-Din al-Malibari