Nurturing Islamic and Socio-political Thoughts in Riau and Beyond: Exploring Raja Ali Haji’s Works

Raja Ali Haji is best-known as the author of famous poem "Gurindam Dua Belas", even though he authored some other important poetries and proses that are often overlooked. In fact, wrote a vast number subjects in variety literary genres ranging from culture, history, politics, jurisprudence to language. While researchers such Junus, Putten, Andaya, Syam, have been concerned mainly with his works on language, jurisprudence, this study explores Islamic socio-political thoughts. Employing content analysis relevant manuscripts books, finds played various roles including religious scholar political thinker who synthesized culture politics Islam whose thoughts extensively influential, Riau beyond. This finding weakens earlier assumption Al-Mawardi were more influential Malay world.