Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Malacca Empire: Sayings of Prophet Muhammad in Sulalat Al-Salatin

Abstract:
In the fifteenth century, the Malacca Empire emerged as the centre of Islamic civilization in the Malay Archipelago. The history had been recorded in Sulalat Al-Salatin, an important literary source about the genealogy of all Kings in Malacca. The objective of this study was to analyze the understanding of sayings from Prophet Muhammad among Malays in Malacca during the fifteenth century through all of the hadith quoted in Sulalat Al-Salatin. This study used content analysis methodology to validate the sayings where all of them were critically analyzed and compared with the classical hadith sources from prominent Muslim scholars. As a result, only two out of the four quotations were considered as authentic sayings of Prophet Muhammad. This study also showed the importance of the palace as the centre of the Islamic education system and the role played by Muslim preachers from outside of Malacca to propagate Islam in Malacca.

Author: 
Abdur-Rahman M. A., R. M. Mohd. Ali, and R. A. I. R. Yaacob.

Hadith in Malay Annals, Malay Annals, Sejarah Melayu, Sulalat Al-Salatin.  

This paper has been presented at International Conference of Social Sciences 2012 (ICSS2012),  11th - 13th April 2012, Venice, Italy.

This paper also has been published in the conference proceedings, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology, Issue 64, April 2012, Venice, Italy, pp. 553-556, pISSN 2010-376X, eISSN 2010-3778.

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