Name: Sunan Ampel Cemetery
Address: Sunan Ampel Cemetery, Southeast Asia

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Sunan Bonang

One of the nine Wali Songo of Java (d. 1525), son and student of Sunan Ampel and teacher of Raden Patah, the founder of Demak. He is remembered for preaching through art: he composed the famous tembang 'Tombo Ati' ('Remedy of the Heart'), gave the Javanese gamelan its bonang instrument and a new dhikr-laden character, and is associated with the Book of Bonang, which defends a strict Islamic orthodoxy against innovation; the Javanese babads also credit him with wonder-working contests against practitioners of black magic.

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