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Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari
Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari was an Islamic scholar from the Banjar Sultanate in southern Borneo. After some thirty years of study in Mecca and Medina he returned home in 1772, founded a religious school near Martapura and advised the sultan on Islamic law. His book Sabil al-Muhtadin, a guide to Shafi'i jurisprudence written in Malay, was widely used across the Malay world.
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