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. Part of the book series (KITLV) Abstract Particular mention should be made of Hamka, one of Indonesia’s most prolific writers on Islamic religious subjects, who also produced some works of literary art. Hamka (the name is an abbreviation of Hadji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah) was born in 1908 in Manindjau (West Sumatra), the son of Dr Abdul Karim Amrullah, 98who was a famous Moslem reformist leader from Minangkabau. 99 During the Japanese occupation of Indonesia the father took an especially strong stand against the veneration of the Emperor which the Japanese tried to force upon the Indonesians, but which he declared to be sinful for a true believer. Hamka himself in his youth was to some extent socially a victim of Minangkabau traditional society. As a boy of sixteen he left Minangkabau and went to Java to study.

Later on he went abroad, to Mecca and various Arab countries; after returning to Indonesia he lived for a short time in Deli (East Sumatra) as a religious teacher; then he went to Macassar, but some years later he returned to Medan where, as the editor of a Moslem weekly, he was more or less forced into the field of belles-lettres, writing serial novels and short stories. During this period (1935–1940) he wrote five novels altogether; some of them became very popular, not only in Indonesia but also in Malaya where all five were re-published after 1960. How to download 1080p videos from tubemate. A collection of short stories from the same period was published by Balai Pustaka, under the title Didalam Lembah Kehidupan (In the Valley of Life, 1940). 100 Hamka did not receive a Western education; he knew little or no Dutch or English, and his artistic abilities and tastes were mainly developed under the influence of modern Arab literature.

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This influence is clearly visible in, for example, his first novel, Dibawah Lindungan Ka’bah (Under the Protection of the Ka’abah, 1936); a sentimental story about a young man who, because of his frustrated love (frustrated because of the force of adat) seeks refuge near the famous Moslem sanctuary in Mecca where he finally dies.