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Nur Ahmad

Islamic Scholar

Nur Ahmad is a PhD candidate at Leiden Institute for Area Studies. He is a Lecturer of the Expression of Sufism in Indonesia at Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo, Semarang. He is now doing research on Islamic-Mystical discourse in the Javanese Mystical Manuscripts which are mainly written in Pegon script. His research is to analyze the shift of Sufism in Indonesia which has been characterized by the domination of al-Ghazzali's School and strict limitations to Ibnu Arabi’s School.