Mu‘tazilah and the Modernization of the Indonesian Muslim Community: Intellectual Portrait of Harun Nasution

Saiful Mujani

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Harun Nasution was born on 23rd September 1919 in Southern Tapanuli, North Sumatra and came from an elite family of his region. HIs father, Abdul Jabbar Ahmad, went on a pilgrimage to Mecca when he was very young. When he grew up he become successful trader, or more precisely an importer of some commodities from Singapore. It was a rare phenomenon in a colonial times for an Indonesian native to become a successful trader.

DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v1i1.868


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