al-Faṭānī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Zayn - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bradley, Francis R.
Leiden
Brill
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Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Zayn al-Faṭānī (1856-1908), was a Southeast Asian scholar and publisher based in Mecca. Born in the town of Yaring in Patani, then a semi-autonomous sultanate on the Malay-Thai Peninsula, he came from an reputable family of shaykhs and had been taken to Mecca while still a boy. He received an eclectic education by studying with many of his countrymen, who were numerous in Mecca at the time, as well as a number of esteemed ḥadīth scholars, leaders of the Aḥmadiyya ṭarīqa (Sufi order),