Sultan Badr ul-Alam Syah (died 1765) was the twenty-sixth
sultan of Aceh
The Sultanate of Aceh, officially the Kingdom of Aceh Darussalam (; Jawi alphabet, Jawoë: ), was a List of Muslim states and dynasties, sultanate centered in the modern-day Indonesian province of Aceh. It was a major regional power in the 16th ...
in northern
Sumatra
Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the list of islands by area, sixth-largest island in the world at 482,286.55 km2 (182,812 mi. ...
. He usurped the throne from the
House of Royal Buginese Wajoq-Aceh and ruled from 1764 to 1765.
When Sultan
Alauddin Johan Syah died in 1760, his son and successor
Alauddin Mahmud Syah I Sultan Alauddin Mahmud Syah I (died 1781) was the twenty-fifth sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra. He ruled from 1760 to 1781, although his reign was twice interrupted by usurpers (1764–1765, 1773).
Troubled enthronement
Known in his youth as Tu ...
was still young. An official called Maharaja Labui or Mantri Makota Raja was therefore acting as regent, taking care of the affairs. This person was descended from the sultan's family of
Siak though the exact link is not clear. Siak had risen to become an important power on the east coast of Sumatra in the eighteenth century. In 1763 disturbances broke out in the Aceh sultanate, presumably as a consequence of the sultan's unpopular attempts to control trade. The details are not entirely clear, but in 1764 Alauddin Mahmud Syah I was driven from the capital and Mantri Makota Raja took the throne in February of that year under the name Sultan Badr ul-Alam Syah. However, the expelled sultan was able to build up a new base at Kota Musapi with the help of an influential
qadi
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History
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, Malik ul-Adil. Badr ul-Alam Syah was attacked by the exile's adherents and killed in August 1765. Alauddin Mahmud Syah was once again placed on the throne. Badr ul-Alam had a daughter, Merah di Awan, who was later married to Alauddin Mahmud Syah's eldest son in an attempt to reconcile the families. Her son later became sultan under the name
Alauddin Jauhar ul-Alam Syah[Zaiduddin (1961), p. 414.]
References
Literature
* Djajadiningrat, Raden Hoesein (1911) 'Critische overzicht van de in Maleische werken vervatte gegevens over de geschiedenis van het soeltanaat van Atjeh', ''Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde'' 65, pp. 135-265.
* Lee Kam Hing (1995) ''The Sultanate of Aceh: Relations with the British, 1760-1824''. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press.
* Zainuddin, H.M. (1961) ''Tarich Atjeh dan Nusantara, Jilid I''. Medan: Pustaka Iskandar Muda.
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Sultans of Aceh
1765 deaths
18th-century Indonesian people