Ahmad Sanusi bin Abdurrahim of Sukabumi - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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van Bruinessen, Martin
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Ahmad Sanusi bin Abdurrahim of Sukabumi (1888-1950) was born into a family of ʿulamāʾ and studied with his father and other West Javanese ʿulamāʾ . He completed his education with a seven-year stay in Mecca, learning at the feet of the leading Shāfiʿī scholars of the day. After his return to West Java in 1915, he quickly established his reputation as a teacher and moderate reformer of pesantren education as well as a critic of the colonial administration. His first contacts with the nationalist movement had been in Mecca,