THE ADVENT OF MUHAMMADANISM. 175- 



The first Arab missionary to Java was Maulana Malik Ibra- 

 him, who came to Grisek and lived there till he died in 1419 A.D. 

 Sedayu, Tuban, Japara, and Demak soon became Muhammadam 

 In 1478 A.D. the Mnhammadan princes of Java overthrew the old 

 great Hindu kingdom of Majapahit. The ruler of Demak seized 

 the regalia and proclaimed himself Sultan, and he and his des- 

 cendants drove Hinduism to take refuge in Blambangan and Bali. 

 The fall of Majapahit released its dependencies Palembang, Jambi 

 and Inderagiri, and in those countries too Muhammadanism gained 

 ground. 



At the time of the fall of Majapahit there was an Arab mis- 

 sionary Shaikh Nuru'd-din Ibrahim bin Maulan.a Israil. or Sunan 

 jati as he styled himself, who lived at Jati near Cheribon. He 

 and his family gained great power. Cheribon came to be governed 

 by this Shaikh Nuru'd-din ; Jakarta, or the district of Batavia, by 

 one of his sons and Bantam by Hasanu'd-din another of his sons. 



In the middle of the XVIth century a missionary went from 

 Palembang to Borneo and made converts first at Sukadana and at 

 Madam 



In 1606 A.D. a Minangkabau trader converted the raja of 

 Pallo in the Celebes; and soon the people of Boni and Lui also be- 

 came Muhammadans. 



At the end of the XVtli century the princes of Ternate and 

 Tidor in the Moluccas and the people of Amboyna became Mnham- 

 madan. 



Study of the genealogies of the ruling families of Sumatra, 

 Java, Borneo, and even Mindanao (Studies in Moro History, Lair 

 and Religion-, N. M: Saleeby) will throw still more light on the 

 spread of this one of the world's great religions among the heathen 

 peoples of the Malay archipelago. 



An account of the conversion of the Malayan races of the 

 archipelago is given in vol. II of the Encyclopaedic van Neder- 

 landsch-lnclie under the caption " Mohammedanisme," but chro- 

 nological points have been further corrected by B. J. 0. Schrieke 

 in II et Boeh ran Bonang, Utrecht, 1916. An account of the, early 

 Mnhammadan missionaries to Acheen is to be found in the 

 Bustan a s-salaiin . in the fragment published by Niemann in his 

 Bloemlezing nit Maleische gescliriften: Snouck Hurgronje's The 

 Achinese, Vol. II, pp. 10-20 contains an authoritative summary of 

 their doctrines. Van der Tuuk's " Account of the Malay MSS. 

 belonging to the Royal Asiatic Society " gives a catalogue of the 

 works composed by the author of the Bustanu's-salatin, and by the 

 pantheists Hamzah of Barns and ShamsirYl-din of Pasai (Essays 

 relating to Indo-Cliina, vol. II, pp. 49-52). D. A. Rinkes has 

 written a brochure entitled Abdoerraof van Singl'el, (Friesland) 

 being a study of Mnhammadan mysticism in Java and Sumatra 

 and containing a useful bibliography. 



R. A. Soc, No. 77, 1917. 



