Background
He can be considered a focal point of the wali songo, because several of them were descended from him and/or studied with him.
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Sunan Ampel
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Career
Local legend says that he built the great mosque of Demak Masjid Agung Demak in 1479 Civil Engineering, but other legends attribute that work to Sunan Kalijaga. The father of Sunan Ampel was Maulana Malik Ibrahim also known as Ibrahim as-Samarkandy ("Ibrahim Asmarakandi" to Javanese ears). His mother was a princess of Champa and Sunan Ampel was born there in 1401 Civil Engineering. A long lineage indicates that Sunan Ampel was a descendant of Ahmad al-Muhajir, a Hadhramaut saint who migrated from Basra (now in Iraq) to Yemen to avoid strife during the Abbasid Caliphate.
However, another theory claims that Sunan Ampel had Chinese ancestry and identifies him as Bong Swi Hoo.
Sunan Ampel married Nyi Gede Manila, daughter of a Chinese captain at Tuban named Gan Engineer Cu. Some sources suggest that Raden Patah was the cousin of Sunan Ampel.
Sunan Ampel died in Demak in 1481 Civil Engineering, but is buried in Ampel Mosque.
