Malikussaleh (

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: الملك الصالح,

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: ''al-Malik al-Ṣālih''; Acehnese: ''Malik ul Saleh, Malikus Saleh''; literal meaning: "the pious king" / "the pious ruler") is an Acehnese who established the first Muslim state of Samudera Pasai in the year 1267. His original name was Mara Silu, Merah Silu, or Meurah Silu. It was said he saw an ant as big as a cat, he caught it and ate it. He named the place Samudera, meaning ocean in Sanskrit (samudra). King Mara Silu later converted to Islam, given an

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name of al-Malik al-Ṣālih. He married neighbour Perlak (

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) Kingdom's daughter and had two sons. According to

Hikayat Raja-raja Pasai 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 in his ...

, he met the

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in dream thus accepts conversion of Islam. Another source claimed a prince Malik from

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sailed across the sea to

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(

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) and established a sultanate there.

Islam's arrival

According to Islamic Council of Victori
ICV
, historians argue "that by the beginning of the 9th century Arab merchants and sailors, (and other Muslims) had begun to dominate Nanhai (

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) or Southeast Asian Trade." However, Malik's tomb is the oldest evidence known of the establishment in Southeast Asia,

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, ''A History of Islamic Societies'', 2002, Cambridge,

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, p. 384 indicating his death in 1297.

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Aceh heritage and places

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Islam's arrival

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