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can be said to be active in the 16th century, with the entry of the

Naqsabandiyah Order brought by Sheikh Burhanuddin (d. 1740 )
from Aceh, he was a student of Sheikh Abdul Rauf Singkil.

It is worth reviewing how Islam entered Indonesia before

going to Minangkabau.
According to Badri Yatim,

Evidence of the founding of the Samudera Pasai
kingdom in the 13th century is supported by the presence

of a gravestone made of granite from Samudera Pasai.
From the tombstone it can be seen that the first king of the

kingdom died in the month of Ramadan in the year 696 H,

which is estimated to coincide with 1297 AD. Malik al-
Shaleh, the first king, was the founder of the kingdom. It is

known through the tradition of Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai,
Hikayat Malayu…He converted to Islam thanks to his

meeting with Sheikh Ismail, an envoy of Sharif from Mecca
who later gave him the title Sultan Malik al-Shaleh. The

tombstone was found in Gompong Samudera, the former

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kingdom of Samudera Pasai.
The first area visited by Muslims directly from Arab lands

in the first century Hijri was the coast of the island of Sumatra. In

45 Badri Yatim, History of Islamic Civilization, (Jakarta: Raja
Grapindo Persadan, 1998), p. 205-206