Sultan Muda Explained

Sultan Muda
Succession:Sulṭān of Acèh Darussalam
Reign:1579
Predecessor:Ali Ri'ayat Syah I
Successor:Sri Alam
Royal House:Meukuta Alam
Father:Ali Ri'ayat Syah I
Birth Date:Banda Aceh, Aceh Sultanate, Ottoman Empire (now Indonesia)
Death Date:1579
Death Place:Banda Aceh, Aceh Sultanate, Ottoman Empire (now Indonesia)

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]

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Notes and 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.