Biography

Abdurrahman Wahid MiniBiography 
Abdurrahman "Addakhil", so his full name. Lexically, "Addakhil" means "the Conqueror", a name taken Wahid Hashim, his parents, from a pioneer who has been plugging the Umayyad dynasty milestone triumph of Islam in Spain. Later the word "Addakhil" is not well known and replaced the name "Wahid", Abdurrahman Wahid, and then more fondly known as Gus Dur. "Gus" is a typical islamic boarding school honor calls to a kiai's son (Islamic religious leaders son) means "brother". 
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President Kiai Haji Abdurrahman Wahid, otherwise known as Gus Dur was born in Jombang, East Java, on September 7, 1940. Gus Dur is the first son of six children from a very respectable family in the Muslim community of East Java. Grandfather of his father is K.H. Asyari Hashim, founder of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), while his maternal grandfather, KH Bisri Syansuri, is the first boarding school teacher who teaches classes on women.
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