Anregurutta professor Habib Abdurrahman Shihab was an Indonesian academician, politician, and Qur'anic interpretation expert (mufassir) from Makassar, South Sulawesi. As a politician, Abdurrahman was a member of the Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia from the Masyumi Party fraction. Meanwhile, as an academican, he served as 2nd rector of the Indonesian Muslim University of Makassar in the period 1959–1965 and the 3rd rector of the Alauddin Islamic State University from 1973 to 1979.
Portrait of Abdurrahman Shihab as a member of the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia
Abdurrahman with his wife and children around the 1950s
Abdurrahman Shihab (center) with Sukarno (right) at Constitutional Assembly of Indonesia.
Makassar, formerly Ujung Pandang, is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, and Bandung. The city is located on the southwest coast of the island of Sulawesi, facing the Makassar Strait.
Image: Makassar CBD Skyline
Image: Fort Rotterdam 3
Image: Makassar Sulawesi Pantai Losari
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