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Sirat al-Mustaqim

Sirat al-Mustaqim

Nuruddin al-Raniri

Author
Nuruddin al-Raniri
Year
1644
Field
Fiqh

A Malay manual of worship (ibadah) according to the Shafi’i school, covering purification, prayer, fasting, zakat and pilgrimage. It is among the earliest comprehensive fiqh works in Malay and remained in use for centuries, including in the margins of later printed kitab. Completed in 1644.

Sources

  1. Azyumardi Azra, The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia (2004)
  2. Peter G. Riddell, Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World (2001)