HISTORIOGRAFI MELAYU KAJIAN ATAS TUHFAT AL-NAFIS KARYA RAJA ALI HAJI

Alimuddin Hassan

doi:10.24014/af.v8i2.3818

Abstract

Tuhfat al-nafis is a historical work discussing about the Malay history until the modern era, including the explanation about the family of kingdom selangor written by Raja ali Haji Riau. Tuhfat al-Nafis is less known and studied in this century, perhaps due to the Britain colonialism, this text was not used in school as the obligatory text. Before the independence, Malay children read other Malay texts, such as Sejarah Melayu, Hikayat Abdullah, and Hikayat Hang Tua. The great work of Tuhfat al-Nafis is the most complicated and sophisticated historical work among all Malay works written before the twentieth century. This study is the ultimate work in Malay treatise and culture which increases its writer’s confidence. There are some argumentations showing that tuhfat al-nafis is a great work distinguishing it with other texts. First, historical conception of this study is wider and deeper than other Malay historical texts. Second, its conception and scope of space and time are too wide. Third, from the perspective of historiography, Raja Ali haji develops a new rule in telling the historical events. Fourth, from the perspective of language, philosophy, and historiography, Raja Ali Haji synthesize between Malay tradition and Islamic tradition. Fifth, its language style and content is easily to read and it is fun to follow its narration

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a historical work discussing about the Malay history until the modern era
including the explanation about the family of kingdom selangor written by Raja ali Haji Riau
this text was not used in school as the obligatory text

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The Malay Historiography : A Study of Tuhfat al-Nafis’ Raja Ali Haji: Tuhfat al-nafis is a historical work discussing about the Malay history until the modern era, including the explanation about the family of kingdom selangor written by Raja ali Haji Riau. Dalam memulakan penulisan karya ini, Raja Ali Haji menulis: “Adalah kemudian dari pada itu maka tatkala adalah ada masa Hijrat al-Nubuat seribu dua ratus delapan puluh dua tahun, dan yaitu pada lima hari bulan Rabi’al-Akhir, dan berbangkitlah hatiku bahwa membuat silisilah ini pada ketika aku peroleh akan satu kitab dari pada saudara Sayyid Al-Syarif ‘Abd Al-Rahman ibn Sayyid Al-Syarif Kasim Sultan Pontianak ibn Sayyid Al-Syarif ‘Abd Rahman Al-Kadri. Penulisan Tuhfat al-Nafis yang dimulai pada akhir tahun 1865, dan sebagian besar dari bagian pertamanya diambil dari Silsilah Melayu dan Bugis dan Sekalian Rajarajanya, tanpa sebuah pengakuan.

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