1. Achmad Hasyim Muzadi was an Indonesian Islamic scholar and cleric who served as chairman of the Nahdlatul Ulama, from 1999 to 2010.
19 Facts About Hasyim Muzadi
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Hasyim Muzadi subsequently served in the Presidential Advisory Council from 2015 until his death.
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Hasyim Muzadi was born on 8 August 1944 in Tuban, East Java, then occupied by Japan.
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Hasyim Muzadi attended various Islamic schools, including a pesantren, an Islamic boarding school, in Gontor, Ponorogo Regency.
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Hasyim Muzadi obtained a college degree in tarbiyah from the State Islamic Institute of Malang in 1969.
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Hasyim Muzadi founded the Al-Hikam Islamic boarding school in Lowokwaru, Malang, East Java, in March 1992.
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Hasyim Muzadi saw this group as susceptible to fundamentalism, which viewed tradition and modernity to be antagonistic, and he founded Al-Hikam to curb its growth among college students.
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Hasyim Muzadi was active in Nahdlatul Ulama, the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, from the 1960s onwards.
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In 1996, Hasyim Muzadi was inducted as a khalifa of the Qadiri-Naqshbandi Sufi order.
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Hasyim Muzadi held the Chairman position for two terms, until 2010 when he could not run again because of term limit.
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Hasyim Muzadi started his political career as a member of the city-level parliament of Malang for the United Development Party.
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Hasyim Muzadi tried to suppress the news of the feud with Gus Dur.
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Hasyim Muzadi is not sure that PKB intends to seriously support him as a presidential candidate.
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Hasyim Muzadi was then proposed by Megawati Sukarnoputri to become his companion through the PDI-P.
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Hasyim Muzadi will run without Gus Dur's blessing and without the PKB.
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Hasyim Muzadi was a proponent of moderate Islam, which he defined as being neither radical nor liberal.
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In January 2017, the 72-year old Hasyim Muzadi suffered from exhaustion after he had traveled to several places in Indonesia, directly after his return from a trip to Australia.
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Hasyim Muzadi was buried on that same day at the second campus of Al-Hikam in Depok, West Java.
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Hasyim Muzadi's body was escorted by military and police personnel, members of Islamic organisations, and students of Al-Ihram in a military-style funeral starting at 16.15, local time.