Abū Bakr Bā Kathīr - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Bang, Anne K.
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Leiden
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Brill
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Abū Bakr b. ʿAbdallāh Bā Kathīr al-Kindi (1881-1943) was the second son of the well-known Zanzibari scholar and founder of the Madrasa Bā Kathīr, ʿAbdallāh b. Muḥammad Bā Kathīr (d. 1925) (Bang, Sufis ; Loimeier). Abū Bakr studied with his father in the school that bore his name, and with several of his father's teachers, among them Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr b. Sumayṭ (d. 1925). The latter was born in Grande Comore to a father from Ḥaḍramawt, and was the leading scholar of East Africa in the