Status Updates From Historical Fact And Fiction

Tamat bahagian II di mana prof mengemukakan hujah yang menarik berkenaan Melaka.

Nampak gaya perlu meneliti semula semua edisi Sulalat al-Salatin yang sudah tersedia cetak.

Baca kembali selepas beberapa tahun dan kini sudah masuk ke bahagian kedua penulisan. Benarlah telahan diri, peminat Attasian perlu lumat dan fahami dengan baik beberapa penulisan prof yang terkait sebelum baca yang ini.

Oh ya, perlu juga sedikit sebanyak tahu akan sejarah Alam Melayu dengan luas agar kita tahu letak-duduk ceritanya.

Anecdotes
- "Mo-lo-you"- name given by Chinese traders to the "Old Malays" living in today Jambi
- "Old Malays"- did not have any written scripts, only after the spread of Islam it was obtained, thus should be more appropriately named as "Malayo-Arabic" script, rather than Jawi
- Prophet's tradition mentioning Samudra: "semut""raya" in Hikayat Raja Pasai, instead of the Sanskrit "samudra"

Apart from that, his new readings of Nagarakartagama and comparisons with other chinese records are one of many evidences of his genius. He proposed that the prince appointed as the King by Majapahit is not adiyavarman but parameswara himself, and the arrival of parameswara to Singapore in 1378 instead of 1390 as proposed by Winstedt is very convincing.

The accounts of Parameswara's conversion to islam by Syed Naquib seems a bit too speculative for me. To dismiss and reverse nearly twenty years from the date recorded by Tom Pires as inspired by hearsay must be founded on a stronger justification. And suggestion of parameswara's name as Muhammad also a mere conjecture, of which he did emphasized that this fact can never be known for certain.

So far this book has been nothing lesser than superbly convincing, well articulated and easy to follow. I am enjoying every turn of the page!!

So far this book has been nothing lesser than superbly convincing, well articulated and easy to follow. I am enjoying every turn of the page!!

Membaca kembali untuk kali kedua buku yang memperjelaskan makna Islam dalam sejarah dan ketamadunan alam Melayu. Prof Naquib menggariskan apa yang diperlukan untuk memahami hal itu yang tidak terkepung dalam kerangka atau sumber Barat saja. Dari penamaan Sumatera yg asalnya Semut Merah, hakikat Malik As-Salih bukan raja pertama Samudra-Pasai yg memeluk Islam hinggalah hakikat Parameswara dan Melaka.

Sempat berbual tentang buku ini dengan Abg Nazmi dan Abg Lutfi semalam; tidak sabar menunggu syarahannya minggu hadapan :)