Text Box: its explicit mission to collect Malay-language manuscripts and should be the main destination for any scholar interested in materials on southern Thailand. The majority of its collection dates to the nineteenth century and includes hundreds of manuscripts written by prominent Patani ulama in both Malay and Arabic language. The most prominent of these Southeast Asian-born and Mecca-trained Islamic scholars is Sheikh Da’ud bin Abdullah al-Fatani (d. 1847) who wrote as many as seventy works, many of which are held in the library. Sheikh Da’ud is often credited as one of the main proponents of the neo-Sufi wave of Islamic thought that linked seventeenth-century Southeast Asian mysticism with the wave of pan-Islamic modernism that became increasingly popular throughout Islamic Southeast Asia in the final quarter of the nineteenth-century and flourished fully in twentieth-century anti-colonial movements. The Malaysian National Library has collected a broad arrangement of the works of Sheikh Da’ud and his predecessors, contemporaries, and students, together covering topics such as Sufism, neo-Sufism, Qur’anic exegesis, hadith, eschatology, and jurisprudence composed between 1775 and 1940, with the greatest period of manuscript-production being 1810-40 and the 1870-90. Furthermore, biographies of influential ulama, biographical dictionaries of prominent Mecca-based scholars, and Islamic histories also appear in the library’s collection. This body of Patani Islamic scholarship, though crucial for understanding the history of Southeast Asian Islam in a broader sense, has not received ample attention from scholars. In addition to Islamic manuscripts, The Malaysian National Library also holds a number of chronicles concerning the Patani Sultanate produced in the period 1780-1840. These ‘historical’ texts include one undated but complete copy of the Hikayat Patani (Story