Tuan Guru Imam Abdullah ibn Qadhi Abd al-Salam adalah seorang ulama yang berperan penting dalam pengembangan Islam di Afrika Selatan. Ia adalah ulama asal Tidore (Maluku Utara) yang diasingkan ke Cape pada tahun 1780 karena menentang praktek monopoli, perbudakan, dan kerja paksa yang diterapkan pemerintah kolonial Belanda. Selama pengasingan di Cape Town ia berhasil merampungkan sejumlah karya besar, antara lain Ma`rifah al-Islam wa al-Iman yang berisi tentang ilmu qalam, tauhid, dan fiqih. Setelah dibebaskan ia mendirikan sekolah madrasah untuk mendidik para budak dan warga kulit hitam yang telah memeluk agama Islam. Pendidikan Islam yang dikembangkan Tuan Guru di Cape Town didasarkan pada filsafat pendidikan Ash?ari yang mencakup taqdir, iradah, taqwa, iktisab, qadha, dan qadhar. Konsep filsafat pendidikan inilah yang menjadi dasar pembentukan pribadi muslim yang berakhlakulkarimah.
Tuan Guru Imam Abdullah ibn Qadhi Abd al-Salam is the Scholar of Islam who had an important role on the Islamic development in South Africa. He comes from Tidore (North Maluku) who exiled to the Cape in 1780 by the Dutch Colonial becouse of his oppsite to Dutch Colonial?s policy of monopoly, slavery, and forced labour. While in prison on his exiled at the Cape Town, he completed a number of magnum opus, i.e. Ma`rifah al-Islam wa al-Iman, a manuscript contain with qalam (Word of God), tauhid (Ones of God), and fiqh (Study of laws partaining to ritual obligation). After his bandaging, he establish a madrasah to educate the slaves and free blacks of the Cape who had become Muslim. The Muslim education in the Cape bassed on the Ash?ari concepts of takdir, iradah, taqwah, iktisab, qadha and qadhar. Thes concept had make as a basic in formation of muslim personality.
