Abdurrahman Shihab
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Anregurutta professor Habib Abdurrahman Shihab was an Indonesian academic, politician, and Qur'anic interpretation expert from Makassar, South Sulawesi. As a politician, Abdurrahman was a member of th
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.
Hadharem
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The Hadharem are an Arab ethnographic group indigenous to the Hadhramaut region in the Arabian Peninsula, which is part of modern-day Yemen, southern Oman, and southern Saudi Arabia. The spoken langua
Abdurrahman Shihab
…Sulawesi as the only child of Habib Ali bin Abdurrahman Shihab, a preacher and education cleric from Hadhramaut, Yemen. Abdurrahman came from the Arab Hadhrami family of the Ba 'Alawi sada group surnamed Aal Shihab-Uddīn. His father had immigrated from Hadhramaut to South Sulawesi since he was young to preach…
Hadharem in Hadhrami attire performing a traditional dance
Hadhrami immigrants in Surabaya (Indonesia), 1920
Hadhrami Arab neighborhood in Surabaya, 1880
Hadharem of Palembang, 22 February 1937