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Sejarah Melayu.   Waringin. Demak accepted Islam after
 Collection Leiden   the King of Majapahit had married the
 University Library Cod.  princess of Pasai who was a Muslim.
 Or. 1703.
 Third, the Islamization of Java took place
 Photograph Dick van der   after Aceh had converted to Islam. The
 Meij  early proponents of Islamic propagation
 in Java usually came from the palace
 in Aceh. The Javanese converted to
 Islam voluntarily without coercion after
 having seen the pious proponents of
 Islamic propagation who had arrived
 from distant lands. These proponents
 were not merchants or general laymen,
 but high-ranking nobles. Their privileged
 positions enabled the common people
 to look up to them and to see them as
 examples. Thus, the miracles enacted by
 the proponents of Islam as recorded in
 traditional historiographic works attracted
 people to Islam, made them convert to
 Islam, and eventually to follow varieties
 of Islamic teachings.





















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