Teungku Haron — in Voorhoeve’s text Teungku Harõn — was an Achehnese religious scholar who, about 1929, composed an Achehnese treatise on the history of Islam in Acheh, working from a manuscript of the *Tibjān fī maʿrifat al-adyān* of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī. His work — preserved in the manuscript of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde at The Hague, designated D in Voorhoeve’s apparatus — is the principal witness to the survival of the Tibjān as a living text of Achehnese religious scholarship in the early twentieth century.
The Achehnese adaptation of the Tibjān
About 1929, Teungku Haron composed — working from a manuscript of the *Tibjān* — an Achehnese treatise on the history of Islam in Acheh. The work is described by Voorhoeve as “allerlei verteld over de Islam in Atjèh” — “all sorts of things related about Islam in Acheh” — and is, in effect, an Achehnese adaptation and continuation of the Tibjān. An extensive summary, almost a translation, was made of the work by H. T. Damsté; with the help of this reliable guide, Voorhoeve was able to recover the passages of the Tibjān in Achehnese, and to use them for the textual criticism of the work.
The Achehnese author’s critical use of the Tibjān
Teungku Haron did not accept the text of the Tibjān uncritically. Voorhoeve records that he used, among other sources, the al-Farq baina al-firaq of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī (probably the printed edition) to correct corrupt names of sects. This critical use of the Tibjān is itself a document of the continuing vitality of the scholastic tradition in Achehnese religious scholarship in the early twentieth century, more than two centuries after Raniri’s departure from Acheh in 1644.
Limitations of the adaptation
The Achehnese adaptation does not carry the Tibjān further than the first sect of the Jabriyya (p. 57 of the Voorhoeve text). For the remainder of the Tibjān, the Achehnese adaptation is therefore not available as a witness. Within these limits, however, it is a reliable guide to the Achehnese reading of the Tibjān in the early twentieth century, and a valuable witness to the textual criticism of the work.
Significance
Teungku Haron is the principal witness to the survival of the *Tibjān* as a living text of Achehnese religious scholarship in the early twentieth century. His Achehnese adaptation, preserved in the manuscript of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde at The Hague, is one of the principal witnesses collated by Voorhoeve in the apparatus criticus of the 1955 edition, and is the only one of his witnesses that preserves the Achehnese reading of the work. His critical use of the Tibjān — and his correction of corrupt names of sects by reference to the al-Farq baina al-firaq of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī — is itself a document of the continuing vitality of the scholastic tradition in Achehnese religious scholarship.
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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 §2d (“Apparatus criticus”), p. 25, where Teungku Haron’s Achehnese adaptation of the Tibjān is discussed.
Ph. S. van Ronkel, in BKI 103, p. 599 — first notice of the Achehnese manuscript D.
Teungku Haron — in Voorhoeve’s text Teungku Harõn — was an Achehnese religious scholar who, about 1929, composed an Achehnese treatise on the history of Islam in Acheh, working from a manuscript of the *Tibjān fī maʿrifat al-adyān* of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī. His work — preserved in the manuscript of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde at The Hague, designated D in Voorhoeve’s apparatus — is the principal witness to the survival of the Tibjān as a living text of Achehnese religious scholarship in the early twentieth century.
The Achehnese adaptation of the Tibjān
About 1929, Teungku Haron composed — working from a manuscript of the *Tibjān* — an Achehnese treatise on the history of Islam in Acheh. The work is described by Voorhoeve as “allerlei verteld over de Islam in Atjèh” — “all sorts of things related about Islam in Acheh” — and is, in effect, an Achehnese adaptation and continuation of the Tibjān. An extensive summary, almost a translation, was made of the work by H. T. Damsté; with the help of this reliable guide, Voorhoeve was able to recover the passages of the Tibjān in Achehnese, and to use them for the textual criticism of the work.
The Achehnese author’s critical use of the Tibjān
Teungku Haron did not accept the text of the Tibjān uncritically. Voorhoeve records that he used, among other sources, the al-Farq baina al-firaq of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī (probably the printed edition) to correct corrupt names of sects. This critical use of the Tibjān is itself a document of the continuing vitality of the scholastic tradition in Achehnese religious scholarship in the early twentieth century, more than two centuries after Raniri’s departure from Acheh in 1644.
Limitations of the adaptation
The Achehnese adaptation does not carry the Tibjān further than the first sect of the Jabriyya (p. 57 of the Voorhoeve text). For the remainder of the Tibjān, the Achehnese adaptation is therefore not available as a witness. Within these limits, however, it is a reliable guide to the Achehnese reading of the Tibjān in the early twentieth century, and a valuable witness to the textual criticism of the work.
Significance
Teungku Haron is the principal witness to the survival of the *Tibjān* as a living text of Achehnese religious scholarship in the early twentieth century. His Achehnese adaptation, preserved in the manuscript of the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde at The Hague, is one of the principal witnesses collated by Voorhoeve in the apparatus criticus of the 1955 edition, and is the only one of his witnesses that preserves the Achehnese reading of the work. His critical use of the Tibjān — and his correction of corrupt names of sects by reference to the al-Farq baina al-firaq of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Baghdādī — is itself a document of the continuing vitality of the scholastic tradition in Achehnese religious scholarship.
See Also
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 §2d (“Apparatus criticus”), p. 25, where Teungku Haron’s Achehnese adaptation of the Tibjān is discussed.
Ph. S. van Ronkel, in BKI 103, p. 599 — first notice of the Achehnese manuscript D.