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in northern Sumatra. His brief tenure started a decade-long period of dynastic weakness and strife in the Aceh kingdom. Sultan Muda was the only known child of the previous ruler, Sultan

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. When Sultan Ali died in June 1579, he was nominally succeeded by Sultan Muda who was only four months old. However, the child died after a very short time. He was succeeded by his uncle Sultan Mughal who was the vassal lord of

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. The new ruler took the throne name Sultan

Sri Alam Sultan Sri Alam, also known as Sultan Mughal (d. 1579) was the sixth sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra. He led a very brief reign in the year 1579 before being deposed and killed. Sultan Mughal was one of the five sons of Sultan Alauddin al-Kah ...

.Djajadiningrat (1911), p. 159.

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Literature

* Djajadiningrat, Raden Hoesein (1911) 'Critisch 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. * ''Encyclopaedia van Nederlandsch-Indië'' (1917) Vol. 1 ('s Gravenhage & Leiden: M. Nijhoff & Brill). {{s-end 1579 births 1579 deaths Sultans of Aceh 16th-century Indonesian people