Johns, Anthony H.

Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908–81), known by the acronym Hamka , which he adopted as a pen name in 1936, is a prominent figure in Islam in modern Indonesia. He gained a high profile as a populist exponent of the neo-Ḥanbalī Salafism of Rashīd Riḍā (d. 1935), for his role …

Muḥammad b. Faḍlallāh al-Burhānpūrī (firstly known as al-Jawnpūrī) (c. 952–1029/1545–1620) was one of several mystics from north India who studied and taught in Mecca and Medina during the second half of the tenth/sixteenth century. He is mentioned in various biographical dictio…