Sultan Malikussaleh (

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: الملك الصالح,

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: ''Sultan al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ''; Acehnese: ''Malik ul Saleh, Malikus Saleh''; literal meaning: "the pious king" / "the pious ruler") was an Acehnese who established the first Muslim state of

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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

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, 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
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, 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, Ira M. Lapidus, ''A History of Islamic Societies'', 2002, Cambridge,

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, p. 384 indicating his death in 1297.

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Islam's arrival

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