5/25/2023 0 Comments Maulid al barzanji pdf![]() It is unfortunate that in our present day and age, our knowledge of and respect for our own ulama is so little that a contemporary young mufti of a much more modest part of the world can cast aspersions on such a luminary. Malaysians can read a biography of the Imam in Bahasa Malaysia at Bahru Shofa. ![]() It is worth remembering that the author was no mere poet or singer, but rather the Mufti of Medinah al-Munawwarah, a position that could not possibly be held by other than an accomplished scholar and pure soul. Imam Barzanji was an Iraqi Kurd, a people with a rather surprising connection to Islam in the Nusantara. Actually the Mawlid poetry more widely read in Malaysia is Mawlid Barzanji, named after its composer, Imam Zayn al-`Abidin Ja`far ibn Hasan al-Barzanji (d. ![]() In the past, I’ve written about a famous book of poetry about the birth of Prophet Muhammad (s) called Mawlid Daiba’i. 12 Rabi’ul Awwal has come and gone again.
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