 Taqi al-Din al-Fasi, a contemporary Arab scholar, was a teacher at the madrasa in Makkah.A madrasa in Madinah was built at a place called Husn al-Atiq near the Prophet's Mosque.Several other Bengali Sultans also sponsored madrasas in the Hejaz, including Sultan Jalaluddin Muhammad Shah, who had close relations with the Sharif of Makkah and would gift him and other residents of the two holy cities with presents and robes of honours.