From the Banjar region of South Kalimantan, he studied in the Haramayn and wrote al-Durr al-Nafis (1785), a widely copied Malay treatise on tawhid and tasawwuf. His birth and death dates are not firmly established.
Sheikh Muhammad Nafis al-Banjari
شيخ محمد نفيس البنجري
Scholar of Quran, Aqidah, Fiqh, Tassawuf
Summary
Banjar Sufi scholar, author of al-Durr al-Nafis.
- Born
- Martapura, South Kalimantan, 1734
- Died
- 1812
- Fields of expertise
- Tasawwuf
- Madhhab
- Shafi'i
- Tariqah
- Khalwatiyyah, Naqshabandiyyah, Qadiriyyah, Syattariyyah
- Notable works
- Al-Durr al-Nafis
Biography
Works
Sources
- Azyumardi Azra, The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia (2004)