Sultanate of Pasai
The Sultanate Pasai or after its capital Samudera or Samudera-Pasai was a sultanate in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra in Southeast Asia. Samudera is a rendering of the Sanskrit word Samudra and means "ocean". Samudera was founded at the end of the 13th century . The country was on the east-west traffic artery, it was an important trading center in the exchange of goods between Arabia , India and China . In 1292 Marco Polo's path passed here, later that of Ibn Battuta on his way through the Malacca Strait . In the middle of the 14th century, Samudera was ruled by Majapahit . In the early 15th century, Zheng He visited the country three times. It was destroyed by Aceh in the 16th century .
In 1292 Muslim merchants from Gujarat , India introduced Islam to Samudera. 1345–1346 the ruler of the Samudera-Pasai empire followed the law school ( madhhab ) of the Shāfiʿites (see also Sultan Manshur Malik Zahir ).
literature
- MC Ricklefs: A History of Modern Indonesia since c.1300. 2nd Edition, Stanford: Stanford University Press 1991; ISBN 0-333-57690-X
- "Ibn Battuta's Trip: Chapter 9 Through the Straits of Malacca to China 1345-1346" . The Travels of Ibn Battuta A Virtual Tour with the 14th Century Traveler. Berkeley.edu.
- Russell Jones (ed.): Hikayat Raja Pasai, Kuala Lumpur: Fajar Bakti, 1987.
References and footnotes
- ↑ yslzc.com: Yisilanjiao dashi nianbiao (2) (Timeline of important events in Islamic history) ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ yslzc.com: Yisilanjiao dashi nianbiao (2) (Timeline of important events in Islamic history) ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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