1. Name: Syeikh Abdullah al-Maghribi Al-Ghadamshi
2. Occupation: Publisher, Printer, Writer, Educationist
3. Date and place of birth: 1892, Ghadamis, Libya
4. Date and place of death: 1974, Libya
5. Education:
- Studied Quran at the Quran Institute under the tutelage of Syeikh al-Faqih Qasim bin Ahmad Dawi
- Continued his studies at the Grand Mosque in Mecca and Masjid al-Sawlatiyah
6. Contributions:
- Influential businessman and educationist in the first decade of the 20 th century
- Taught at Madrasah al-Aqiq, Taif, Saudi Arabia
- Taught at Masjid al-Haram (1916)
- Taught Arabic, Arabic literature, Fekah and Balaghah at Madrasah al-Mashoor
- Headmaster of al-Mashoor (1919)
- Taught at Madrasah Idrisiah, Perak
- Re-opened Madrasah al-Amirah Mariah (1929)
- Opened his own madrasah, Madrasah al-Huda al-Diniyyah
- Owned printing company, Al-Huda Press
- Published his writings Kitab Munir al-Ifham and Kitab Ilmu Balaghah
- Printed religious reading materials and newspaper, Sahabat
Source:
Loh Wei Ling, Badriyah Haji Salleh, Mahani Musa, Wong Yee Tuan & Marcus Langdon (Eds). (2013). Biographical Dictionary of Mercantile Personalities of Penang . Kuala Lumpur: THINK CITY and MBRAS.
