Sultan Muda

Sultan Muda
Sulṭān of Acèh Darussalam
Reign1579
PredecessorAli Ri'ayat Syah I
SuccessorSri Alam
BornBanda Aceh, Aceh Sultanate, Ottoman Empire (now Indonesia)
Died1579
Banda Aceh, Aceh Sultanate, Ottoman Empire (now Indonesia)
HouseMeukuta Alam
FatherAli Ri'ayat Syah I

Sultan Muda (b. and d. 1579; literally "young sultan") was a nominal sultan of Aceh in northern Sumatra. His brief tenure started a decade-long period of dynastic weakness and strife in the Aceh kingdom.

Sultan Muda was the only known child of the previous ruler, Sultan Ali Ri'ayat Syah I. When Sultan Ali died in June 1579, he was nominally succeeded by Sultan Muda who was only four months old.[1] However, the child died after a very short time. He was succeeded by his uncle Sultan Mughal who was the vassal lord of Priaman. The new ruler took the throne name Sultan Sri Alam.[2]

References

  1. ^ According to the chronology based on grave-stones, in Encyclopaedia van Nederlandsch-Indië (1917), Vol. 1, genealogical table between p. 88 and 89.
  2. ^ Djajadiningrat (1911), p. 159.

Literature

  • Djajadiningrat, Raden Hoesein (1911) 'Critisch overzicht van de in Maleische werken vervatte gegevens over de geschiedenis van het soeltanaat van Atjeh', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 65, pp. 135-265.
  • Encyclopaedia van Nederlandsch-Indië (1917) Vol. 1 ('s Gravenhage & Leiden: M. Nijhoff & Brill).
Preceded by Sulṭān of Acèh Darussalam
1579 		Succeeded by