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  "en": "FPRI E-Notes: Theodore Friend, 'Abdurrahman Wahid, the Indonesian Republic, and Dynamics in Islam' (Jan 2010)"
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  "ar": "مقالة ثيودور فريند التأبينية عن عبد الرحمن وحيد ⁦(منشورات معهد بحوث السياسة الخارجية الأمريكي، يناير 2010)⁩؛ يُستشهد بها لتوصيفها تصوّف وحيد الشخصي. يصفه فريند بأنه «حكيم صوفي ومتصوّف»، ويكتب أن حياته ومسيرته «تحمل أدلة وفيرة لمن أراد فهم التصوف الحديث».",
  "en": "Theodore Friend's obituary essay on Abdurrahman Wahid (FPRI E-Notes, January 2010); cited for its characterisation of Wahid's own Sufism. Friend reconstructs an Indonesian aphorism around him — 'Santri pursuing order in office, Sufi sage and mystic out of office' — and writes that his life and career 'contain abundant clues for anyone who would understand modern Sufism'."
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  "kind": "secondary",
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  "title": "Abdurrahman Wahid, the Indonesian Republic, and Dynamics in Islam",
  "author": [
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    "family": "Friend",
    "given": "Theodore"
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  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
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     2010,
     1
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  "publisher": "Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI E-Notes)",
  "URL": "https://aijac.org.au/australia-israel-review/wahids-way",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Obituary assessment by Theodore Friend, a historian of Indonesia, read in full on 31 October 2026 as republished by the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council in the Australia/Israel Review under the title 'Wahid's Way'. Independent of the Jakarta Post reportage and of the Wikipedia literature. It is characterisation rather than reportage — its 'Sufi sage and mystic' is the author's judgement of the man — so the record's faith note pairs it with the contemporary practice report before the value is settled.",
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
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