Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University

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A state Islamic university in Malang, East Java; it conferred an honorary doctorate on the Grand Imam on 24 February 2016 in recognition of his efforts for a centrist Islam and spreading peace ¹ — its rector saying its students study al-Azhar's curricula and walk its path ².

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The largest island of what is now Indonesia. Arslan's chapter on Islam in Java and its neighbours draws on Dutch scholarship and a lecture by Sayyid Isma'il al-Attas. It notes that Brahmanism and Buddhism were the dominant religions before Islam, that Islam spread through trade and seafaring, and that the tomb of Malik Ibrahim at Gresik is among the earliest Muslim graves there. The population figures he gives come from Dutch censuses reported second-hand and need checking.

Maulana Malik Ibrahim State Islamic University

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