Daud al-Fatani

Daud al-Fatani was a Malay Islamic scholar from Pattani who spent most of his life in Mecca, where he taught and wrote. He produced dozens of works in Malay, written in Jawi script, on law, theology and Sufism, which were widely used in religious schools across the Malay world. He is regarded as one of the most important Malay religious scholars of the 19th century.