The Traces of Islam in Bumi Sawerigading; South Sulawesi (original) (raw)

This article discusses the process of islamization in Bumi Sawerigading or better known as the Kingdom of Luwu. Luwu Kingdom was the kingdom that first accepted Islam in South Sulawesi. The existence of this kingdom is interesting to write because it does not escape the role of the king or datu in expediting the process of islamization. On the other hand before King Luwu accepted Islam as a royal religion, his people adhered to a belief that was animistic and dynamistic. A belief that worships on trees that are considered to have spirits and sacred objects. In addition, the process of islamization in the Kingdom of Luwu was marked by a fairly lengthy dialogue process between the king and an Islamic propagator named Datuk Sulaiman. Not only until the dialogue, but continued on a power struggle which in the end King Luwu acknowledged the greatness of Datuk Sulaiman and finally converted to Islam. This paper technically uses historical methods from the heuristic stage (data collection), criticism (data verification), interpretation (data interpretation), and historiography (writing into a complete story).