Contents • • • • • • • Life [ ] Information on Hamzah's life comes largely from the (pen-name stanza) that ends his poetry ( ), and from the work of his disciple Hasan Fansuri and commentaries on Hamzah's poems. However, many of his biographical details are uncertain. His name indicates that he may be from (also known as Fansur to the Arabs), or have spent a large part of his life there. A link to the Siamese ( Shahr-i-Naw) has also been proposed, although it may be that he travelled to Ayutthaya rather than that being his birth place. Western_and_central_europe_2gb 2015. He was known as a Sufi spiritual master and it is thought that he may have worked at the court of the.

He soon sought to remedy such excesses, as clearly shown in his doctoral thesis about the mysticism of Hamzah Fansuri. The importance of words and terms adopted from the Arabic lexicon into the Malay language and pave the way for the creation of a language that free from Islamic elements.[13]. Wuju>diyyah of 17th Century Acheh, and The Mysticism of Hamzah Fansuri. Al-Attas also worked with many prominent. 27 Syed Muhammad Naguib Al-Attas, The Mysticism of Hamzah Fans u>ri>(Kuala. Lumpur: University of Malaya Press, 1970), p. Obligation, he will feel free or tranquil. On the other hand, if he fails to.