BRUNEI, THE FIRST SOUTHEAST ASIAN MUSLIM KINGDOM? (original) (raw)
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Robert Nicholl39 compiled a number of European sources which also suggests that the Brunei Sultanate was still not a Muslim nation during the early 16th century AD. Brunei historians,40 on the other hand, argue that Western historians did not take into account that Islam had spread widely in Southeast Asia and into Brunei, even before the 16th century AD. One of the earliest pieces of local evidences is a gravestone belonging to a Chinese Muslim by the name of Pu Kung (sic),41 who died in 675AH/1276AD. Other recent findings such as the Boxer Codex42 43 suggest that the Sultanate of Brunei could be much older, and the discovery of a gravestone44 found in Brunei, marked as the 'Emperor of Brunei', can be dated to 7AH/1300 AD, which would make the Brunei Sultanate as old as the Aceh Sultanate.45 The tombstone has Arabic inscriptions and carved in Guanzhou (sic) when Muslims used to reside there.46
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