Hamzah Fansuri

Hamzah Fansuri was born in Barus, on the west coast of Sumatra, which the Arabs called Fansur, hence his surname, in the second half of the sixteenth century; the rest of his life is poorly known and is deduced mainly from his poems. He travelled as far as the Hejaz, Iraq and Jerusalem, attached himself to the Qadiriyya brotherhood and followed the thought of Ibn Arabi. Back in the archipelago, he lived within the orbit of the sultanate of Aceh. After his death, his writings were judged heretical and burned; the date of his death remains disputed.

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• PoetrySharab al-'ashiqinHamzah Fansuri · 1580not translated into EnglishLiterature