During his employment in the Indonesian Department of Religion, he promoted the incorporation of religious lessons into the national education curriculum. His books are used in madarsas and pesantrens. He authored over seventy-five books, including Tafsir Qur'an Karim ('Interpretation of the Karim Koran') and an Arab-Indonesian dictionary. Mahmud Yunus ( Old Spelling: Mahmoed Joenoes) (Febru– January 16, 1982) was an Indonesian Minangkabau Islamic preacher and teacher.
