 His work was considered the oldest Muslim scholarship of South east Asia.Shaikh Randeri (Ar-Raniri) (Shaikh Nur ad-Deen Muhammad b. Ali b. Hasanji al-Hamid as-Shafi'i al-Ashari al-'Aydarusi ar-Randeri) was born into a Gujarati Muslim family  of Hadhrami lineage, that was descended from Quraysh Arabian nobility.He arrived in Aceh in 1637 and enjoyed the patronage of Iskandar Thani (reigned 1636-1641).