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 or more likely early 15th century. The text of this work has a lot of parallels with the
Sejarah Melayu
The ''Malay Annals'' ( Malay: ''Sejarah Melayu'', Jawi: ), originally titled ''Sulalatus Salatin'' (''Genealogy of Kings''), is a literary work that gives a romanticised history of the origin, evolution and destruction of the Malacca Sultanat ...
and the history of Melaka.
See also
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List of Hikayat
''Hikayat'' (Jawi script, Jawi: حكاية; ) is an Arabic word that literally translates to "stories" and is a form of Malay language, Malay and Sikh scriptures, Sikh literature. This article presents a list of hikayat from various time periods.
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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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