Ahmadābād — in English Ahmedabad — is the great city of Gujarat in western India, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries one of the principal centres of Indian-Arab scholarship. It is the city where Muḥammad al-ʿAddārs succeeded his famous grandfather as religious teacher, before his later move to Surat; and the city where ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Aydārūs — a kinsman of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī and a prolific author of the Indian-Arab al-Aydārūs family — died in 1628.
The first residence of al-ʿAddārs
Muḥammad al-ʿAddārs, born in 1561 at Tarim in South Arabia, came to Gujarat at the age of nineteen and succeeded his famous grandfather as religious teacher, first at Ahmadabad and later at Surat. The succession of al-ʿAddārs to his grandfather at Ahmadabad indicates the hereditary character of the religious office in the Ḥadramī-Indian families, and the standing of al-ʿAddārs as one of the principal religious teachers of Gujarat in his generation. His later move to Surat placed him at the port from which the Gujarati-Ḥadramī Sufi network communicated with the Malay-Indonesian world.
The death of al-Aydārūs
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Aydārūs — a kinsman of Raniri and a prolific author of the Indian-Arab al-Aydārūs family — died at Ahmadabad in 1628. His many writings are preserved, including correspondence exchanged with a scholar at Mocha. His father had come from South Arabia to India in 1551; his mother was an Indian. He is one of the figures of the Gujarati milieu from which Raniri himself sprang.
Significance
Ahmadabad is one of the principal centres of Indian-Arab scholarship in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and one of the principal cities of the Gujarati-Ḥadramī Sufi network from which the orthodox reaction of Acheh drew its principal Malay-Indonesian agents. The succession of al-ʿAddārs to his grandfather at Ahmadabad, and the death of al-Aydārūs there in 1628, are two of the principal chronological pegs of the Gujarati-Ḥadramī network in this period.
See Also
- Abd al-Qadir al-Aidaros
- Gudjarat
- Muhammad al-Addars
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Rifa’iyah order
- Sajjid Abu Hafs Umar Ba Sjaiban
- Surat
- Tarim
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §1 (“De auteur”), pp. 5–6.
Ahmadābād — in English Ahmedabad — is the great city of Gujarat in western India, in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries one of the principal centres of Indian-Arab scholarship. It is the city where Muḥammad al-ʿAddārs succeeded his famous grandfather as religious teacher, before his later move to Surat; and the city where ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Aydārūs — a kinsman of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī and a prolific author of the Indian-Arab al-Aydārūs family — died in 1628.
The first residence of al-ʿAddārs
Muḥammad al-ʿAddārs, born in 1561 at Tarim in South Arabia, came to Gujarat at the age of nineteen and succeeded his famous grandfather as religious teacher, first at Ahmadabad and later at Surat. The succession of al-ʿAddārs to his grandfather at Ahmadabad indicates the hereditary character of the religious office in the Ḥadramī-Indian families, and the standing of al-ʿAddārs as one of the principal religious teachers of Gujarat in his generation. His later move to Surat placed him at the port from which the Gujarati-Ḥadramī Sufi network communicated with the Malay-Indonesian world.
The death of al-Aydārūs
ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Aydārūs — a kinsman of Raniri and a prolific author of the Indian-Arab al-Aydārūs family — died at Ahmadabad in 1628. His many writings are preserved, including correspondence exchanged with a scholar at Mocha. His father had come from South Arabia to India in 1551; his mother was an Indian. He is one of the figures of the Gujarati milieu from which Raniri himself sprang.
Significance
Ahmadabad is one of the principal centres of Indian-Arab scholarship in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and one of the principal cities of the Gujarati-Ḥadramī Sufi network from which the orthodox reaction of Acheh drew its principal Malay-Indonesian agents. The succession of al-ʿAddārs to his grandfather at Ahmadabad, and the death of al-Aydārūs there in 1628, are two of the principal chronological pegs of the Gujarati-Ḥadramī network in this period.
See Also
- Abd al-Qadir al-Aidaros
- Gudjarat
- Muhammad al-Addars
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Rifa’iyah order
- Sajjid Abu Hafs Umar Ba Sjaiban
- Surat
- Tarim
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Inleiding §1 (“De auteur”), pp. 5–6.