Hamka (Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah) - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Johns, Anthony H.
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Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah (1908-81), known by the acronym Hamka , which he adopted as a pen name in 1936, is a prominent figure in Islam in modern Indonesia. He gained a high profile as a populist exponent of the neo-Ḥanbalī Salafism of Rashīd Riḍā (d. 1935), for his role in the reformist organisation Muhammadiyah, and as a popular author. At least two universities are named after him, and, in 2011, he was awarded posthumously, by a committee for the documentation of national history, the title of pahlawan (