Tuan Guru: From the Spice Islands to Cape Town with Shafiq Morton

Shafiq Morton- photo-journalist, radio presenter and author- gives glimpses of his latest released book, 'Tuan Guru: From the spice Islands to Cape town,' in which he not only speaks About Tuan Guru's life but shares a decolonizing narrative on the origins of the beautiful tradition of Islam in Cape Town South Africa.
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Hailing from a family of scholars in the Hadramawt. Tuan Guru descendants arrived in the Far East in the 14th century. His ancestor is Sunan Gunung Jati, a saint and founding father of Indonesian Islam, who became the Sultan of Banten and Cirebon in Java during the late 1400s
It is from Cirebon that Tuan Guru grandfather, Habib Umar Rahmat al-Faruq, travelled to the Moluccan chain in 1646 to spread Islam. He settled on the island of Tidore, becoming a member of the Sultan's roval household.
Tuan Guru, or Imam Abdullah bin Old And Salam, was born in 1712. As a member of the royal family. Tuan Guru son became the focus of the Dutch East India Company, who fearful of the detained him in Batavia and finally exiled him to the Cape in 1780.
Using newly discovered sources, and by tracing his lite back to the Moluccas something never done before - Shafiq Morton has woven a refreshingly new narrative of one of Cape Town's most celebrated historical figures.

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Tuan Guru Qadhi Abdussalam from Tidore Island Maluku Indonesia.

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