Zayn al-Din al-Malibari, Scholar of Malabar

ScholarScholar of Malabar

Zayn al-Din al-Malibariزين الدين المليباري

c. 1532-1583 CEApproximate datePonnani

A scholar of Malabar who wrote a history calling Muslims to resist the Portuguese.

From a scholarly family of Ponnani in Kerala, he wrote Tuhfat al-Mujahidin, a history of Islam in Malabar and of Portuguese attacks on its ports. His Fath al-Mu'in is a Shafi'i law manual still studied across the Indian Ocean.

Source: history