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Buton with the vizier ministers, waving showed, Imam Ahmad gave Snouck Mastering Religious Matters) regarding The royal palace of
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the paper a piece, coming down the a list of books the people read in the the procedure for studying religion written Buton. The Buton
Presence of His Majesty the Father eastern part of the countries under the by Muhammad Arsyad bin Abdullah Sultanate in Southeast
Company, Mr. Governor General and wind, the territory of Ternate, Tidore and al-Banjari and the Hidayat al-Salikin Sulawesi presents
Raden van Indie in Batavia, Insha Bacan. In addition to the books in Arabic (Manual for Searching Knowledge)--- a vital evidence of the
Allah will continue his age, health and that were widespread in pesantren as composition in Malay based on al- development of the
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good fortune in peace. noted by van den Berg in the late 19 Ghazali’s Bidayat al-Hidayah--- written Malay language in the
century, Imam Ahmad recorded a by Abdussamad al-Palimbani. archipelago. The Malay
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The presence of Malay in Buton is closely number of titles of Jawi books composed language was the formal
linked with the history of the kingdom, by the ulama in the Archipelago from Conclusion language of the kingdom,
where the process of the establishment the Malay speaking regions, among used for political and
to become an empire involving the them, the book composed by Abdurrauf The Malay language and Jawi books commercial diplomacy
Malay Kingdoms of Johor and Sumatra Singkel, Mir’at al-Tulab, in form of a aren ot only important from a historical as well as for a number
who migrated there. However, the most Malay adaptation of Ansari’s book Fath perspective ---that they have become a of socio-religious texts.
important thing to say here is that Butonis al-Wahab. Another book is the Dhur category in the study of Islamic culture
a good example that Malay had been al-Thamim, which, according to Snouck in Indonesia--- but also in terms of the Source: Directorate of
established well as a lingua franca in the Hurgronje, was probably written by formation of ecumenical Islam in the History and Cultural
archipelago. Thus, Buton in the eastern Muhammad Nafis al-Banjari. archipelago. Through Malay, Muslim Values, Ministry of
part of the archipelago was connected to communities in various regions in the Education and Culture
of the Republic of
the people living in the other parts of the Books composed by the Patani scholar, archipelago became connected to one Indonesia.
archipelago. Daud al-Fatani (Daud bin Abdullah bin another, and, strengthened through the
Idris al-Fatani) were also included in use of Jawi books, these relationships
The people of the archipelago were not Imam Ahmad’s list. Among them were remained within limits derived from
only connected to one-another through two of his books on jurisprudence: the the universal message of Islam. This
languages, but also though religious Fara’id ghayat taqrib fi al-irth wa al-tansib gradual and long historical process has
thoughts recorded in books written (Statutes of the Final Approximation in become the basis for the formation of
in Malay in Jawi script in addition to Inheritance and Consanguinity) on the what Anderson called an “imagined
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books written in Arabic, which were also laws about the division of an inheritance community”. If the colonial government
widespread and sources of religious and the Idah al-bab li murid al-nikah might have inherited the Indonesian
knowledge. A note written by someone bi al-sawab (Explanatory Chapter state, the Malay language has laid a
called Imam Ahmad ---an Imam for the for Getting Married Correctly) about solid foundation for the establishment
Bacan islands in North Maluku who met marriage. Another book in Jawi was the of Indonesia as a nation the process
Snouck Hurgronje in Mecca in 1884--- Sabil al-Muhtadin li al-tafaqquh fi amr when it adopted Malay as the national
is important to record here. As Laffan al-Din (the Path of the Guided People for language of Indonesia.

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