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Sabil al-Muhtadin

Sabil al-Muhtadin

Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari

Author
Muhammad Arsyad al-Banjari
Year
1781
Field
Fiqh

A comprehensive Malay manual of worship, written partly as an expansion of al-Raniri’s Sirat al-Mustaqim. Completed around 1781, it became a standard fiqh text across the Malay world, and a mosque in Banjarmasin is named after it.

Sources

  1. Azyumardi Azra, The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia (2004)