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Malacca

ملقا

A port in Malaysia; the Sultanate of Malacca in the fifteenth century CE was a centre for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia.

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Malacca is a port in Malaysia. In the fifteenth century CE the Sultanate of Malacca was a centre for the spread of Islam in Southeast Asia. 1

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Syed Sheikh al-Hadi

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islam.museum contributors. “Malacca”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/malacca/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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Syed Sheikh al-Hadi

Malay writer and reformer of Hadrami Arab descent (1867–1934), born in Malacca, who was a founder of the Kaum Muda movement in British Malaya; he co-founded the journal Al-Imam (1906), ran reformist madrasas in Singapore, Malacca and Penang, founded the Jelutong Press, and wrote Hikayat Faridah Hanom, regarded as the first Malay novel.