Yaakub Isa

Yaakub Isa (7 September 1939, Kampung Ganchong, Pekan, Pahang – 7 July 2019, Pekan, Pahang) was a Malaysian teacher, writer, scholar of the Malay language and literature.
Short biography.
In 1954, he graduated from the Malay school in Kuantan. In 1960 he graduated from the Sultan Idris Teachers College in Tanjung Malim, and in 1972, he graduated from the University of Malaya. From 1960 to 1969, he worked as a school teacher. He worked as a principal from 1972 to 1983. From 1983 to 1985, he served as an officer of the Pahang State Department of Education, and from 1985 until retirement in 1994 as a deputy director for school programs. Later he worked as a coordinator of educational programs of the Pahang Foundation Buletin. He was also a member of the governing council of the Sultan Abu Bakar Museum, the committee of the Council for Cultural Affairs of Pahang and the coordinator of writing textbooks of the Koran Academy and religious commandments (Kuantan, Pahang).
Creativity.
He wrote short stories, studied the history of Pahang, the problems of education and development of the Malay language, literature and traditional culture. He was the author of the Dictionary of the Classical Malay language (1997) and the biography of the second Prime Minister of Malaysia, Abdul Razak Hussein.