Sultan Ala ad-dïn Mahmoed Sjah (reigned 1870–1874) was the last ruling Sultan of Atjèh. His single seal is reproduced on the spine of Kreemer’s work Atjèh (1922–23). He died without children when the kraton fell on 24 January 1874.
Account from Atjèh by J. Kreemer (Deel II)
Ala ad-dïn Mahmoed Sjah succeeded his father Mantsoer Sjah (1838–1870) as Sultan in 1870. His reign coincided with the diplomatic crisis that led to the Atjèh-oorlog in 1873. He died without children when the kraton fell to Dutch forces under generaal Van Swieten on 24 January 1874.
Kreemer notes that Sultan Mahmoed Sjah’s single seal (tjab soengöë) appears on the spine of his monograph — a deliberate choice to commemorate the last ruling Sultan alongside the first queen (whose ninefold seal appears on the cover).
Family connections
The prominent woman Pö Tjoet Meurah (Tjoet Nja’ Meurah) first married Sultan Mahmoed Sjah, then Toeankoe Mahmoed (brother of Toeankoe Asem). Pö Tjoet Meurah was the daughter of Teukoe Pakèh Dalam (former Oelèëbalang of XII Moekim’s Pidië), and her aunt had married Sultan Mantsoer Sjah.
The end of the sultanate
After the kraton fell, the pretender Sultan Moehamat Dawöt fled to Keumala in Pidië and continued to claim the sultanate until his submission in 1903 and banishment in 1907.
See Also
- Sultan Mantsoer Sjah
- Aceh War
- Kraton Atjeh
- Generaal van Swieten
- Moehamat Dawöt (Pretendent Sultan)
- Toeankoe Machmoed Radja Keumala
- J. Kreemer
- 1870
- 1873
- 1874
- Sultan Ibrahim Mansur Shah
- Tuanku Muhamat Dawot
- Pö Tjoet Meurah
Sources
Atjèh. Algemeen samenvattend overzicht van land en volk van Atjèh en onderhoorigheden, door J. Kreemer, Archivaris van het Atjèh Instituut. Tweede Deel. Leiden: N.V. Boekhandel en Drukkerij voorheen E.J. Brill, 1923. Identifier: Delpher MMKB02B:000001798.
Identifier: Delpher MMKB02B:000001798; PPN 395084288. Koninklijke Bibliotheek.