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Yala

يالا

City in Yala province, Thailand.

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Wan Muhamad Noor Matha

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islam.museum contributors. “Yala”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/yala/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Wan Muhamad Noor Matha

Thai politician from Yala, born in 1944. A former teacher and university lecturer, he entered parliament in 1979 for Yala and led the Wahdah group of Malay-Muslim MPs through a succession of parties; he was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1996–2000 and again in 2023–2025 — the first Thai Muslim to hold the speakership — and also served as deputy prime minister and as interior, transport and agriculture minister.