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ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbd al-Ḳādir
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(Malay pronunciation Abdullah bin Abdulkadir), surnamed Muns̲h̲iʾ , i.e. teacher of languages, was "the greatest innovator in Malay letters" (R. O. Winstedt,
A history of Malay literature,
JMBRAS, 1940, ch. xii). He was born in 1796 in Malacca, where his grandfather, the son of S̲h̲ayk̲h̲ ʿAbd al-Ḳādir, who came originally from Yaman, had settled. At an early age, ʿAbd Allāh received lessons in Malay from his father, who is said to have been an expert Malay scholar, and endeavoured to make himself fully master of this lan…
