Sultan Zainul Abidin (died 5 October 1579) was the seventh
sultan of Aceh
The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam ( ace, Keurajeuën Acèh Darussalam; Jawoë: كاورجاون اچيه دارالسلام), was a sultanate centered in the modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh. It was a major ...
in northern
Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...
. His reign was the last of three brief ones in the year 1579.
Zainul Abidin was the son of Sultan Ghori alias Abdullah, who was the vassal ruler of Aru (
Deli
Deli may refer to:
* Delicatessen, a shop selling specially prepared food, or food prepared by such a shop
* Sultanate of Deli, a former sultanate in North Sumatra, Indonesia
Places
* Deli, Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Pro ...
) and died in battle in 1568. He was the grandson of Sultan
Alauddin al-Kahar
Sultan Alauddin Ri'ayat Syah al-Kahar (died 29 September 1571) was the third sultan of Aceh, and was one of the strongest warrior rulers in the history of the sultanate. In his time the power structures that his father had begun were greatly stre ...
. After the rapid deaths of the sultans
Ali Ri'ayat Syah I
Sultan Ali Ri'ayat Syah I, also known as Sultan Husein (d. 8 June 1579), was the fourth sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra. He reigned from 1571 to 1579 and continued his father's policy of fighting the Portuguese in Melaka.
Succession and dyna ...
,
Sultan Muda and
Sri Alam, he was placed on the throne of Aceh in 1579. However, according to the chronicles he was only interested in pleasures and especially enjoyed animal fights and life-and-death fights between humans. It was even alleged that he had no appetite before he had seen blood flowing. He also behaved in a tyrannical way towards his ''uleëbalangs'' (chiefs). The chiefs therefore resolved to get rid of him. The plotters put him on an elephant and brought him to Makota Alam where he was murdered. This happened on 5 October 1579. He was succeeded by
Alauddin Mansur Syah
Sultan Alauddin Mansur Syah (died 1585 or 1586) was the eighth Sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra. He ruled Aceh from 1579 to 1585 or 1586 and was known as a pious Muslim ruler with cultural interests. His reign also saw some military expansion o ...
who did not belong to the old sultan's family.
[Encyclopaedie (1917), Vol. 1, p. 74.]
References
Literature
* Djajadiningrat, Raden Hoesein (1911) 'Critisch overzicht van de in Maleische werken vervatte gegevens over de geschiedenis van het soeltanaat van Atjeh', ''Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde'', 65, pp. 135–265.
* ''Encyclopaedie van Nederlandsch-Indië'' (1917), Vol. 1 ('s Gravenhage & Leiden: M. Nijhoff & Brill).
* Iskandar, Teuku (1958) ''De Hikajat Atjeh'' ('s Gravenhage: M. Nijhoff).
1579 deaths
Sultans of Aceh
Year of birth missing
16th-century Indonesian people
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