The Malay Exposition of al-Sanusi''s Umm al-Barahin

The MalayExposition of al-Sanusi's Umm al-Barahin - Hardcover & Dust jacket

Author: Che’ Razi Jusoh

Publisher: Islamicand Strategic Studies Institute(ISSI) Malaysia

ISBN: 9789671131244

Price: RM88.00

Pages: 135pp

Weight: 0.358kg

This workattemps to give an insight into Umm al-Barahin authored by Yusuf al-Sanusi (d.940/1490), a famous North African scholar who was not only a theologian butalso a pious sufi whose life was fully dedicated to the education of hiscommunity. Al-Sanusi's Umm al-Barahin, a short treatise on Islamic creed hasgreatly influenced people in many countries, and has been translated into Malayand commented upon by a number of prominent Malay scholars like Muhammad Zaynal-Ashi, Dawud al-Fatani, Zayn al-'Abidin al-Fatani and others. The Malaycommentaries of the Umm al-Barahin, which elucidate and elaborate onal-Sanusi's typology of the Divine Attributes and other related issues, provethat the Malay scholars in the past had achieved a very high degree ofunderstanding of Islamic ontology, epistemology and metaphysics. Thus, a newmodern edition and translation is needed to expose the richness of the Malayheritage which once flourished throughout the region for the sake of newgeneration. The work is concluded with a critique of the criticism put forwardin commentaries authored by Malay writers which we will illustrate to beunsubstantiated interpretation of the original texts of Umm al-Barahin.