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The Major Babad of Islam just like in the Malay world. Also in the Babad Tanah Jawi we find Raden Santri married his elder daughter beach. Brawijaya and his troops looked
Surakarta, canto 17 verse However, unlike Malay texts such as the how the Kingdom of Cempa converted to while Raden Burereh betrothed his for Sunan Giri’s grave and when they
1–7 (Leiden University Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai and the Sejarah Islam. One day, a person from overseas younger daughter. found it they ordered the two crippled
Library Cod.Or.1978). Melayu, which much more accepted named Makdum Ibrahim Asmara visited The story tells that King Brawijaya men who guarded the tomb to dig it
Source: J.J. Ras, Islam as an integral part of the initial the king of Cempa. He invited the king wanted to destroy Sunan Giri, because up. They refused, but when they were
‘Javanese Traditions formulation of Malay culture, Javanese to convert to Islam and the king simply he thought that Giri’s authority and power forced to do so, they started digging.
on the Coming of Islam literary texts put much more emphasis accepted his invitation. After the king posed a threat to Majapahit. Gajah When they reached Sunan Giri’s
in Indonesia’, in J.J. on a continuation with pre-Islamic converted to Islam, his aides and his Mada was dispatched with thousands remains, a swarm of hornets suddenly
Ras, The Shadow of the culture. This is especially the case in the people followed in his footsteps. Makdum of soldiers to wipe out Giri and when emerged that attacked Brawijaya and
Ivory Tree. Language, accounts of the period of the transition Ibrahim Asmara married the king’s they arrived they found that the Sunan his troops so that many of them died.
literature and history to the Islamic era. With the emphasis youngest daughter and after the king had was busy writing. When he saw that Brawijaya survived and with the remains
in Nusantara. Leiden: on pre-Islamic culture, the change from died, his son succeeded him. his enemies had arrived to destroy his of his troops he went back to Majapahit.
Vakgroep Talen en royal successions from Hindu-Buddhist Makdum Ibrahim had two sons, Raden palace, he put aside his pen and he Surprisingly, immediately after the event
Culturen van Zuidoost to Islam became part of the discussion. Rahmat, the oldest, and Raden Santri, the prayed to Allah for help. The Sunan’s the guards who were initially unable
Azië en Oceanië, youngest. Both wanted to go to Java to pen suddenly turned into a dagger to walk were healed. The incident
Rijksuniversiteit Leiden An important Javanese text is the Babad meet their uncle, the King of Majapahit. that, moving on its own, went berserk, was reported to the Sunan Perapen
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pp. 214-142, p. 296. Tanah Jawi (History of the Land of Java). who returned to Giri which became
Classified as a “historical” Javanese The king also dispatched another prince, stabbing Majapahit’s soldiers and many prosperous as it had been before.
text, the Babad Tanah Jawi justifies the Raden Burereh, to Java. The three of of them died. The soldiers who were After Giri had defeated him yet again,
shift from Hindu-Buddhist Majapahit to them arrived in Majapahit where the king still alive returned to Majapahit. When King Brawijaya set his eyes on attacking
Demak and later, by the mid-16 century, gladly welcomed them and they stayed the commotion was over, the dagger Bintara as he had been told that the
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to Mataram. The Babad Tanah Jawi in Majapahit for one year. Raden Rahmat returned to the Sunan’s hand stained original jungle there had been developed
emphasizes that from pre-Islamic times married the daughter of Tumenggung with blood. The Sunan prayed that Allah into a city under the leadership of
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onwards, all the kingdoms in Java had Wilatikta, after which he settled in Ampel would forgive whatever he might have Raden Fatah, who was no other than
been ruled by one royal lineage right Denta, while Raden Santri and Raden done wrong and he told his followers that Brawijaya’s own son from his marriage
up to the period of the Islamic Mataram Burereh became Arya Teja’s sons-in-law; from that moment on the dagger would with a Chinese Princess. Knowing that
Kingdom. Thus, the establishment of the 13. H.R. Sumarsono (Translator) Babad Tanah be called Kalam Munyeng. Bintara was becoming grander and
Islamic Javanese kingdoms stayed within Jawi, Yogyakarta: Narasi, first edition, 2007. When Sunan Giri died, his grandson, more developed, King Brawijaya feared
the sequential development of Javanese 14. The King of Majapahit referred to in the text Sunan Perapen was crowned as Sunan. that it might decide to attack Majapahit.
may be his aunt’s husband who in Babad Bondhan
culture. It was because of this that the is named Dwarawati, or who the Banjar Chronicle When it was announced that Sunan Therefore, Brawijaya devised a plan to
kings of Mataram acquired their magical- calls the Princess of Cempa. Giri had passed away, King Brawijaya destroy it. Moreover, the Bintara’s Ruler
religious legitimacy to rule in the new, 15. Tumenggung Wilatikta was the regent of attacked Giri but Sunan Perapen was had failed to visit him already for three
Tuban, the father of Raden Said who was later
Islamic-inspired Javanese empire. known as Sunan Kalijaga. unable to face him and he fled to the years. Adipati Terung, Raden Bintara’s

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