Fakih Usman
Kyai Hajji Fakih Usman was an Indonesian Islamic leader and politician with the Masyumi Party. He twice served as the Minister of Religious Affairs under the Halim Cabinet in the State of the Republic of Indonesia in 1950, and in the national government during the Wilopo Cabinet from 1952 to 1953. In his early years Fakih was criticised by conservative Muslims for his involvement with the modernist Islamic organisation Muhammadiyah, though that group remembers him warmly.
Fakih was born in Gresik, East Java, Dutch East Indies, onMarch 1904. His father, Usman Iskandar, was a wood merchant, and his mother, a housewife, was the daughter of an ulama . The couple, who were of modest means, had four other children, and the familys lack of a noble background meant the children were ineligible to receive an education at Dutchrun schools. Instead, Fakih studied Islam from a young age, receiving much of his instruction from his father. At the age of ten he began studying at a pesantren in Gresik, finishing four years later. In 1919 he continued his studies at several pesantren outside the city, including ones in rural Gresik and in nearby Bungah.
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