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The Al-Fatihah, is the recognition that Islam is a religion constant threat of Java, provided many over by Pasai, its shadow city. It was Islam. The king promised to convert
first chapter of the obtained by an engagement with the opportunities for the emergence of the to Pasai one of the prospective saints to Islam. But after being recovered, he
Quran. long-distance trade, but also a form river state of Samudera Pasai. Since the (the Wali Sanga), Sunan Bonang came forgot his promise. He was sick again.
of cultural accountability on religious beginning of its development as a power to seek knowledge. Sunan Gunung The same thing happened again. It was
Source: Perpustakaan
Nasional (The National conversion. And, no less important is the center, until the end (1524), defeated Jati, who according to Djajadiningrat’s only after the third time that the king was
Library of the Republic provision of a new legitimacy patterned to by Aceh Darussalam, Samudera Pasai reconstruction was Fatahilah or finally truly converted to Islam.
of Indonesia). be a higher and cosmopolitan civilization. ---with the interrupted hegemony Falatehan, who named Kalapa to “Syahdan at that time”, said Hikayat Patani,
This story can also be collaborated with of Majapahit--- though relatively become Jayakarta and founded Banten
the archeological evident, namely the prosperous, showed many signs of sultanate, was born in Pasai. 31 “all people in the country also embraced
king’s cemetery complex in Samudera situations that the establishment of the Islam, and all people outside the country
Pasai. From here can be known that the new kingdom was still in the process. It was also from Pasai, according to 32 region none converted to Islam. As for
first Muslim ruler was Sultan Malik as- This kingdom did not just have to Hikayat Patani (the Patani Chronicle), the king, though he embraced Islam,
Saleh, who died in 1297. continue to deal with those groups the process of Islamization of Patani a only idolatrous and eating pork that were
Malay kingdom located across the Straits
abandoned; other than that, all pagan work
The development of Samudera town, as that had not been subjugated and of Melaka. It was said that the King of remained unchanged.” 33
well as its sister town, Pasai, which had converted to Islam from the interior Patani was seriously ill and none could
by then beat the older Samudera, must regions, which were the hinterlands cure him. Some one reported that an The last statement is a recurring
be viewed in relation to maritime trade of Samudera Pasai to acquire trading ulama from Pasai might be able to cure situation, which led the missionaries
in Southeast Asia. The increasing commodities; but, this kingdom also him. The ulama, Sheikh Sa’id came and to repeatedly visit the having been
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height of trade relations between China should resolve the prolonged political said that the king could be cured, after Islamized kingdoms. When Islamization
and the Arab world and the increasing conflicts and family feud. Even if being recovered the king converted to of Patani occurred, political and
importance of commodities from the political situation were unstable, economic position of Samudera Pasai had
Sumatra and Java (such as pepper, Samudera, a small country beside the 31. Djajadiningrat in his Critische Beschouwing. been much diminishing, but its reputation
It should be noted in this reconstruction that
resin, camphor and so on) when Peusangan river estuary, became a Djajadingrat also uses the resources of Portuguese as the center of religion continued.
Sriwijaya was the center of maritime center of religious learning. Famous as a means of control over the local tradition that Two centuries after the founding of
is under discussion. But Purwaka Tjaruban Nagari,
trade in the South had collapsed---are Arab traveler, Ibn Battuta, told about organized by the insurer Sedjarah Tjirebon and staff Samudera Pasai, the same pattern of
likely to be due to the invasion of the on going high quality of theological of Keprabon Lemahwungkuk Tjirebon, (perhaps PS cultural encounter between Islam and the
Chola Empire in the 11 century, the discussions held by sultan’s theologians, Sulendraningrat) published by Bhratara, 1972, as local situation can also be seen in Aceh
th
well as books on behalf of PS Sulendraningrat, i.e.
Pamalayu (that is the aggression to some of whom came from Persia to Sejarah Cirebon (Jakarta: PN Balai Pustaka, 1983 Darussalam, which also started from a
the “Malay World”) of Kertanegara (the his palace. Samudera’s reputation ) and Babad Tanah Sundadan Babad Cirebon (np, potential trade center that had begun to
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1984) says that Fatahilah or Sjarif Hidayatullah is
King Singasari in East Java) and the as a knowledge center then was taken different from Sunan Gunung Jati. Fatahilah is an be frequently visited by Muslim traders.
29. Kenneth R. Hall, Maritime Trade and State 30. Ibn Batuta Travels in Asia and Africa 1325 - Egyptian-born son in law of Sunan Gunung Jati. Local sources, that had been collected
Development in Early Southeast Asia, Sydney/ 1354, H.A.R. Gibb (transl & ed.) London: Routledge 32. A. Teeuw dan David K. Wyatt, Hikayat Patani,
Wellington: George Alien & Unwin, 1985, pp. 1-25. & Kegan, 1957, p. 274. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1970. 33. Ibid. p. 75.

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