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Account from Over Maleise Literatuur (1947) — 1607

In Hooykaas’s survey of Malay literature, the year 1607 is the year of the completion of the Tādj us-Salāṭīn — the Atjehnese-composed “mirror for princes” — and the year of the accession of Iskandar Muda to the throne of Atjeh. The two events together mark the threshold of the bloeitijdperk (golden age) of Atjehnese power and literary culture.

The Completion of the Tādj us-Salāṭīn

The Tādj us-Salāṭīn — Arabic Tāj as-Salāṭīn, “Crown of Kings” (Malay Mahkota Sēgala radja) — was completed in Atjeh in 1607. The work is, in Hooykaas’s reading, “Arabisch van titel, Perzisch-Moslimsch van inhoud, Maleis van taal, met Atjeh als plaats van vervaardiging” (Arabic in title, Persian-Muslim in content, Malay in language, with Atjeh as place of manufacture) — a synthesis that exemplifies the literary cosmopolitanism of the court of Iskandar Muda’s Atjeh. The work’s completion in the year of Iskandar Muda’s accession places it at the very threshold of the great Atjehnese seventeenth century.

The Model for the Sadjarah Malajoe

The Tādj us-Salāṭīn of 1607 would, in Hooykaas’s reading, serve as the model for the Sadjarah Malajoe — the principal Malay chronicle of the Malacca-Johor sultanate, commissioned at Batoe Sawar in 1612. The Bendahara of Johor — the author of the Sadjarah Malajoe — would have become acquainted with the Tādj during his Atjehnese captivity after the 1613 attack on Batoe Sawar: “de Bendahara zal [in Atjéh] hebben kennis gemaakt [met de Tādj oes-Salatina], alwaar het in 1607 werd voltooid” (the Bendahara will [in Atjeh] have become acquainted [with the Tādj us-Salāṭīn], where it was completed in 1607). The Bendahara’s own “Geslachtslijst der Soeltanen” (Genealogy of the Sultans) — the working title of the Sadjarah Malajoe — was modelled on the Tādj’s example.

The Accession of Iskandar Muda

The accession of Iskandar Muda to the throne of Atjeh in 1607 opens the bloeitijdperk (golden age) of Atjehnese power (1607-1636) — the period of Atjehnese naval dominance in the Strait of Malacca, of the 1613 and 1615 attacks on Batoe Sawar, of the conquest of Pasai, and of the literary culture that produced the Tādj us-Salāṭīn and, later, the Bustān as-Salāṭīn of ar-Rānīrī (1638).

Source: Over Maleise Literatuur, by Dr. C. Hooykaas, Hoogleraarte Batavia; Tweede Druk (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1947), chapter 19 (“Twee Moslimse exemplo-boeken als vorstenspiegel”), pp. 165-173; Toelichting tot de Sadjarah Malajoe, aantekening bij de inleiding van de schrijver, p. 205.

See Also

Account from Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu

Sultan Iskandar Moeda took power at age 17. During his reign, conquered half of Sumatra’s coast and half of Malacca peninsula. Organized/introduced the ‘nanggroe’ (family system) in Atjeh.

Source: J. Jongejans, Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 26.

Sources

De Karbouw — Zijn betekenis voor de volken van de Indonesische Archipel, by J. Kreemer (‘s-Gravenhage / Bandung: N.V. Uitgeverij W. van Hoeve, 1956), p. 84. Atjèh, by J. Kreemer, vol. I (1922), p. 192 Over Maleise Literatuur, by Dr. C. Hooykaas, Hoogleraarte Batavia; Tweede Druk (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1947).

Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 26.

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