Bonang, Sunan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Bonang, Sunan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ricklefs, M. C.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1061113
Doc. NO	:	ALei1510
Main Entry	:	Ricklefs, M. C.
Title & Author	:	Bonang, Sunan - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ricklefs, M. C.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(456 words)
Abstract	:	Sunan Bonang is one of the legendary Nine Saints ( wali sanga ) who were said to be responsible for the conversion of the Javanese to Islam in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries C.E. His life is obscure. Most legends agree that he was the son of Sunan Ngampel-Denta, another of the wali sanga of Java, and that he studied with his father and with the future wali Sunan Giri. According to these legends, Bonang and Giri set off together for Mecca but got no farther than Melaka,
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei1510.pdf