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Tuan Guru Haji Abdul Rahman Limbong

Kuala Terengganu

1868 – 1929

Terengganu uprising of 1928

Summary

Terengganu scholar associated with the 1928 peasant uprising.

Born
Kuala Terengganu, 1868
Died
Mecca, 1929
Fields of expertise
Tasawwuf

Biography

A teacher and Sufi in Terengganu who defended cultivators against new land regulations; after the 1928 unrest the British exiled him to Mecca, where he died. Commonly dated 1868–1929.