Nuruddin ar-Raniri
Nūr ad -Din ar - Rānīrī († 1658) was an Islamic religious scholar from Gujarat, who worked during the reign of Iskandar Thani Ala II (r. 1636-1641 ) at the court of the Sultanate of Aceh.
Ar - Rānīrī came from an Arab family from the Hadramaut who has been resident in the town of Rander in Gujarat and already had contacts with the court in Aceh. His uncle had already been active as a teacher of logic, rhetoric, ethics and fiqh 1580-1583 there. Ar - Rifai Rānīrī itself belonged to the Order. The court of Aceh he reached the end of May 1637th There he presented himself at the service of Iskandar Thani and wrote for him from 1638, first the Malay work Bustān as- Salatin ( " Garden of the ruler "), a seven-volume World Chronicle, on the basis from Arab sources, the story of the creation of the Prophet and Muslim rulers of the Middle East treated to in his immediate presence.
In the period 1641-1644 authored ar - Rānīrī his book Tibyān fī ma ʿ rifat al - Adyan, a häresiographisches work on the model of Schahrastanis Kitaab al - Milal wa -n- Nihal, in which he both except Islamic religions such as Judaism and Christianity as well various Islamic groups discussed. He used this plant mainly for attacks on the teachings of the two Sumatran Sufi Hamza Fansūrī and Shams ad -Din as- Samatrānī, which panentheistischer to Ibn Arabi Wahdat al - wudschūd theory -oriented and in his time at the court of Aceh, many followers had. Ar - Rānīrī accused them of how the Dschahmiyya, which is attributed to Dschahm ibn Safwan to teach the beginning of eternity of the world, and rejected it due to the Qur'anic statement that God is the Creator of all things ( eg Sura 13:16), as unbelief back.
Ar - Rānīrī let the books of Hamza Fansūrī and Samatrānī publicly burned and execute their students. After Iskandar Thani was died in 1641 and his widow Safiyyat ad-Din had taken control, he lost favor at court and was forced to flee. He died in 1658 in India.