Teuku Muda Dawot was the hereditary uleebalang of Seulimeum, a chiefdom within the XXII Mukims of Great Acheh. He is introduced to readers of The Achehnese as the subject of one of the portrait plates illustrating Vol. I, captioned “TEUKU MUDA DAWOT, ULEEBALANG OF SEULIMEUM (XXII MUKIMS).” The accompanying text describes the confederacies of the uleebalangs of the three sagis, of which the XXII Mukims is the first in ceremonial precedence.
Like other Muda titles in Acheh — most notably Teuku Muda Ba’et of the Seven Mukims — the qualifier Muda (“young”) was a court-derived style distinguishing the reigning chief from senior members of his house. The uleebalangship of Seulimeum, though formally dependent on the sultan’s confirmation, was in practice independent of royal letters-patent, its authority being of more ancient origin than the sultanate itself.
The text which surrounds his portrait treats the broader question of the confederacies of the uleebalangs and the relation of those chiefs to the sultanate. Snouck Hurgronje explains that Great Acheh, outside the limits of the actual sultanate, was divided into three sagis (“angles”) — the XXII, XXV, and XXVI Mukims — each composed of a certain number of mukims from which it derived its name. The gradual increase of population in the XXII Mukims had given rise to the formation of new mukims within the sagi, so that its name no longer exactly corresponded to its actual proportions. Within this expanding and politically central sagi, chiefs like Teuku Muda Dawot exercised the hereditary authority that formed the real foundation of Achehnese government.
The plate that depicts him is part of a series through which Snouck Hurgronje sought to put faces to the principal offices of Achehnese society — the panglima sagi, the Ne’ of Meura’sa, and other hereditary chiefs whose authority had survived, in attenuated form, the long war with the Dutch that began in 1873.
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Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.
Teuku Muda Dawot was the hereditary uleebalang of Seulimeum, a chiefdom within the XXII Mukims of Great Acheh. He is introduced to readers of The Achehnese as the subject of one of the portrait plates illustrating Vol. I, captioned “TEUKU MUDA DAWOT, ULEEBALANG OF SEULIMEUM (XXII MUKIMS).” The accompanying text describes the confederacies of the uleebalangs of the three sagis, of which the XXII Mukims is the first in ceremonial precedence.
Like other Muda titles in Acheh — most notably Teuku Muda Ba’et of the Seven Mukims — the qualifier Muda (“young”) was a court-derived style distinguishing the reigning chief from senior members of his house. The uleebalangship of Seulimeum, though formally dependent on the sultan’s confirmation, was in practice independent of royal letters-patent, its authority being of more ancient origin than the sultanate itself.
The text which surrounds his portrait treats the broader question of the confederacies of the uleebalangs and the relation of those chiefs to the sultanate. Snouck Hurgronje explains that Great Acheh, outside the limits of the actual sultanate, was divided into three sagis (“angles”) — the XXII, XXV, and XXVI Mukims — each composed of a certain number of mukims from which it derived its name. The gradual increase of population in the XXII Mukims had given rise to the formation of new mukims within the sagi, so that its name no longer exactly corresponded to its actual proportions. Within this expanding and politically central sagi, chiefs like Teuku Muda Dawot exercised the hereditary authority that formed the real foundation of Achehnese government.
The plate that depicts him is part of a series through which Snouck Hurgronje sought to put faces to the principal offices of Achehnese society — the panglima sagi, the Ne’ of Meura’sa, and other hereditary chiefs whose authority had survived, in attenuated form, the long war with the Dutch that began in 1873.
See Also
Source
The Achehnese, Vol. I, by Dr. C. Snouck Hurgronje, translated by A.W.S. O’Sullivan, indexed by R.J. Wilkinson. Leyden: E.J. Brill, 1906.