Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai (حكاية راج-راج ڤاسا translated as “Chronicle of the Kings of Pasai”) is perhaps the earliest work in
Malay on the first Malay-Muslim kingdom of
Samudera-Pasai. In the story, Merah Silu met
Muhammad
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in his dream and accepted conversion to
Islam
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. The book is believed to have been composed around the late 14th century.
See also
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List of Hikayat
References
External links
''Dispersing God's shadows''- Reflections on the translation of Arabic political concepts into Malay and Indonesian
Malay-language literature
History of Islam in Indonesia
Books about monarchs
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