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Malikussaleh (
Arabic
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: الملك الصالح,
ALA-LC
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: ''al-Malik al-Ṣālih'';
Acehnese: ''Malik ul Saleh, Malikus Saleh''; literal meaning: "the pious king" / "the pious ruler") is an
Acehnese who established the first Muslim state of
Samudera Pasai
The Samudera Pasai Sultanate (), also known as Samudera or Pasai or Samudera Darussalam or Pacem, was a Muslim harbour kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra from the 13th to the 16th centuries CE. The kingdom was believed to have been founded ...
in the year 1267. His original name was Mara Silu, Merah Silu, or Meurah Silu. It was said he saw an ant as big as a cat, he caught it and ate it. He named the place Samudera, meaning ocean in Sanskrit (samudra). King Mara Silu later converted to Islam, given an
Ayyubid
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name of
al-Malik al-Ṣālih. He married neighbour Perlak (
Peureulak
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Perlak or Peureulak ...
) Kingdom's daughter and had two sons. According to
Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai (حكاية راج-راج ڤاسا translated as “Chronicle of the Kings of Pasai”) is perhaps the earliest work in Malay on the first Malay-Muslim kingdom of Samudera-Pasai. In the story, Merah Silu met Muhammad in his ...
, he met the
Islamic prophet
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Muhammad
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in dream thus accepts conversion of Islam. Another source claimed a prince Malik from
Aceh
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sailed across the sea to
Beruas
Beruas (alternative spelling: Bruas) is a small town and mukim in Manjung District, Perak, Malaysia.
Name
Beruas is named for a local mangosteen-like tree, '' Garcinia hombroniana'', the "seashore mangosteen", called in the local Malay diale ...
(
Gangga Negara
Gangga Negara is believed to be a lost semi-legendary Malay-Hindu kingdom mentioned in the Malay Annals that covered present day Beruas, Dinding and Manjung in the state of Perak, Malaysia with Raja Gangga Shah Johan as one of its kings. Res ...
) and established a sultanate there.
Islam's arrival
According to Islamic Council of Victori
ICV, historians argue "that by the beginning of the 9th century Arab merchants and sailors, (and other Muslims) had begun to dominate Nanhai (
Guangzhou
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) or Southeast Asian Trade." However, Malik's tomb is the oldest evidence known of the establishment in Southeast Asia,
Ira M. Lapidus
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, ''A History of Islamic Societies'', 2002, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
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, p. 384 indicating his death in 1297.
See also
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Parameswara (sultan)
Parameswara (1344 – c. 1414), thought to be the same person named in the ''Malay Annals'' as Iskandar Shah, was the last king of Singapura and the founder of
Malacca. According to the ''Malay Annals'', he ruled Singapura from 1389 to 1398. T ...
*
Gangga Negara
Gangga Negara is believed to be a lost semi-legendary Malay-Hindu kingdom mentioned in the Malay Annals that covered present day Beruas, Dinding and Manjung in the state of Perak, Malaysia with Raja Gangga Shah Johan as one of its kings. Res ...
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