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by several ulama whenever they were     accountability patterns like Hikayat                  It is also recognized in the other     remembered in the tradition of Luwu        The Palace of the King of
                                   called for analyzing Islamic history. 62  Raja-Raja Pasai, is about the king of               collective memory of other areas. Thus,   and Gowa-Tallo.  With the emphasis of   Luwu, Palopo.
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                                   All theories do not fabricate things.   Malaka, Raja Tengah who dreamed of                    Sulu and Mangindanao remember Johor    the different propaganda, according to     Source: Directorate of
                                   In fact, it is quite possible all these   meeting the Prophet teaching shahadah,              as the sender of “guidance” to them.   tradition, the religious preachers, whose   History and Cultural
                                   theories are complementary. However,    circumcising him, and saying that                     Regardless of chronological chaos,     subsequent title were Dato ri Bandang,     Values, Ministry of
                                   Islamization of Southeast Asia is not only   the next day would come a ship from              but Hikayat Marong Mahawangsa is       Dato Patimang, and Dato ri Tiro, had       Education and Culture
                                   complex, but also something that is still   Jeddah. The king also wanted to validate          commonly referred to as Hikayat Kedah   successfully converted the royal family of   of the Republic of
                                   ongoing. But, as Drewes  said in his    his dream. The next day, before sunset,               (the Tale of Kedah), which states that   Luwu and Gowa-Tallo. The Bima tradition   Indonesia.
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                                   writings doubting the strong arguments   a makdum come and pray at the beach--                Aceh as the kingdom persuaded them to   also said that the area was taken to the
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                                   of almost all theories, then the historical   -just as he had seen in his dream. So, he       convert to Islam.  While Minangkabau   brace of Islam by Dato ri Bandang.  In
                                   certainty can only be obtained if the   himself and his dignitaries converted to              remembers Malacca as the “sender”      Salasilah Kutei, which may come from
                                   various requirements have been met.     Islam led by the makdum. From then on,                to Islam as they never forget Aceh as   the year 1620, shortly after the King
                                   So let all these theories be regarded as   Raja Tengah had been known as Sultan               the foundation stone of their surau    Makota converted to Islam, Kutai was
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                                   merely a useful academic exercise.      Muhammad Shah.                                        tradition---began in Ulakan, led by    visited by two saints, namely Dato ri
                                                                           Pasai and Malacca have a unique                       Sheikh Burhanuddin, (Tuanku Ulakan)    Bandang and Tuan Tunggang Parangan.
                                   From the description of the cultural                                                          who have studied with the Sheikh Abdur   But, because Makassar had a theological
                                   clash patternit seems that the arrival   historical claim in the history of                   Rauf al-Singkili (Tuanku di Kuala), in   crisis, Dato ri Bandang was forced
                                   of Islam more remembered as part of     Islamization and such is recognized                   the 17 century.  In contrast, Pahang   to return, then only Tuan Tunggang
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                                   the dynamics of the relationship among   in various local traditions ---as if from            remembers that they converted to Islam   Parangan stayed in Kutai. He was the
                                   regions in the archipelago. Admittedly,   both centers a continuing relay begins.             by the immigrants from the Minangkabau.  one who had successfully become
                                   Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai and, with a     Historical and spiritual prestige of Pasai                                                   the King of the Crown (Raja Mahkota),
                                   slightly different version, Sejarah Melayu,   was then inherited by Aceh Darussalam;          The role of the Minangkabau immigrants   to be a true Muslim, after proving the
                                   could tell a story about Mirah Silu’s   like Johor that could never forget their              and religious preachers is also        superiority of his knowledge. 69
                                   dream and the arrival of Sheikh Ismail   dynasty is an extension of the successful            65. R.O. Winstedt, “History of Kedah”, JSBRAS, 81
                                   of Mecca, end with the establishment    Palembang-Malacca dynasty in Malacca.                 (1920) 29-36.                          67.   See  Christian  Pelras,  “Religion,Tradition  and
                                                                                                                                                                        the  Dynamics  of  Islamization  in  South  Sulawesi”,
                                   of the empire and the crowned of the    64.   “And  the  treasurer  along  with  the  dignitaries   66.  Until now each congregation in Ulakan is the   Archipel, 29 (1985): 107-136. See also J. noorduyn,
                                                                           converted  to  Islam,  all  large  and  small,  young  and
                                                                                                                                 center  of  Syattariyah  mystical  order  and  every
                                   local ruler as Malik as-Saleh.Or, Sejarah   old, women and men, all people were to convert to   month of Safar the followers of this order do worship   “De islamisering’ van Makassar”, B,K.I. cxii, (1956);
                                   Melayu, which seems to use cultural     Islam. And the king learned from the machdum about    ceremony called Basapa. About Sheikh Burhanuddin   247-266.
                                                                           the rite of the prayer. So, the king was then named   or  Tuanku  Ulakan,  see  Ph.S.  van  Ronkel,  “Het   68.  On the missionary activities of Dato ri Bandang in
                                   62.  See Risalah Seminar: Sedjarah Masuknja Islam   by  machdum  Sultan  Muhammad  Sjah”,  from  “The   Heiligdom Oelakan te”, T.B.G., 56 (1914): 281-316.   the eastern Indonesian waters see Henri Chambert-
                                   ke  Indonesia,  Medan:  Panitia  Seminar  Sedjarah   eleventh stories of Audsah” Sejarah Melayu (according   Transcription  of  manuscripts  found  Ulakan  about   Loir, “Dato’ ri Bandang. Legendes de Pislamisation
                                   Masuknja Islam ke Indonesia, 1963. See also Prof.   to  Abdullah  ibn  Albulkadir  Munsji  ---reissued  and   Tuanku Ulakan, which translated into Dutch by van   de la region de Celebes-Sudi”, Archipel, 29 (1985):
                                   A. Hasymi (ed.) Sejarah Masuk dan Berkembangnya   annotation by TD Simatupang and Prof. Dr. A.Teeuw   Ronkel, see Karel A. Steenbrink, Some Aspects of   137-163.
                                   Islam di Indonesia, Bandung: P.T. Almaarif, 1981.  with the help of Amal Hamzah), Djakarta /Amsterdam:   Indonesian Islam in the 19th century, Jakarta: Bulan   69. C.A.  Mees  (ed.),  De  Kroniek  van  Koetei,
                                   63. Drewes, “New Lights on the coming of Islam?”  Penerbit Djambatan 1952, 83.                Bintang, 1984, 179-184.                Santport, 1956.



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