Raja Ali Haji راج علي حاج | |
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Born | Raja Ali Haji bin Raja Haji Ahmad 1808 Selangor Sultanate or Penyengat Island, Riau Islands, Johor Sultanate |
Died | 1873 Penyengat Island, Riau Islands, Riau-Lingga Sultanate |
Occupation | Poet, Historian |
Language | Malay |
Raja Ali Haji bin Raja Haji Ahmad (1808/9–1869/75) was a 19th-century Bugis-Malay historian, poet and scholar who wrote Tuhfal al-Nafis.[1][2] He was elevated to the status of National Hero of Indonesia in 2004. Haji has been described as one of the most important Malay writers of the 19th century.[3]
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