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Java who had important contribution to the Islamic studies can
be pointed out here are Muhammad al Nawai al Jawi (1813
1897) and Shaleh Darat al Samarani (1817 1912 ?). Muhammad
al Nawi al Jawi who was born in Banten in West Java, under-
took pilgrimage to Arabia, return to Mecca to settle permanen-
tly around 1885, and establishing himself as a teacher after un-
dertaking further studies both in Mecca and in Egypt and Syria.
Although Nawawi was never to return to Indonesia, his influ-
ence was considerable in that part of the Muslim World by way
of the instruction he provided to Indonesian scholars of Islam
who then return to Southeast Asia and transmitted the results
of their study in turn to their own students. In such a way, the
brand of al Nawawi continued to plunge the study of Islam in
Southeast Asia through his own students and his writing. AI
Nawawi had written more than ninety nine works on several
aspect of Islamic studies which became the reading materials in
the reformist pesantren in Indonesia. Like AI Nawawi, Kyahi
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H. Shaleh Darat al-Samarani who was born in Semarang around
1817, in his young he undertook pilgrimage to Mecca, settle for
several years in Mecca, and study on Islam in Mecca, Egypt
and surrounding Arabia. Afterward, hecame back to Indone-
sia, and set up the Pesantren in the Kampung Darat in the north
coastal Semarang town. He had also written many works com-
prises many aspect of Islamic studies and had been published
in Singapore and India as well as in Cirebon in West Java some-
times in the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth
century. His works were also become a reading book for the
reformist pesantren in Java and outer Java, even in other part of
Muslim world. He was supposed to be the religious teacher for
the Raden Ajeng Kartini, a prominent women movement in In-
donesian in the end of the nineteenth century and the early of
the twentieth century.

26 See Riddel, op.cit., pp. 193 – 198.

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