The New & Correct Date of The Terengganu Inscription
By Ahmat Adam
2017
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The Terengganu Stone has generally been accepted as one of the oldest archaeological artifacts for the evidence of the arrival of Islam to Malaysia, and Southeast Asia more generally. Since its discovery in 1887 the Terengganu Inscription has drawn much interest from scholars of various disciplines. Yet in this volume Emeritus Professor Dr. Ahmat Adam argues that scholarship on the Inscription has consistently misdated the stone and misrepresented its true content. Through philological and historical analysis he argues that the correct date of the Inscription is not 702 H. or 1303 A.D. but 708 H. or 1308 A.D. and that the Inscription also reveals the usage of a unique calendrical system in the early 14th century alongside other clues to the nature of historical Malay society.
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Ahmat Adam
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Datuk Dr. Ahmat Adam ialah Profesor Emeritus dalam bidang Ilmu Sejarah yang mula bergiat menulis sejak 1970an. Lulusan dari School of Oriental & African Studies ini telah menghasilkan 19 buah buku ilmiah, termasuk antaranya, Hikayat Raja Pasai (SIRD, Petaling Jaya, 2019), Hikayat Hang Tuha (Atau Hikayat Hang Tua) (SIRD, Petaling Jaya, 2018), The New & Correct Date of the Terengganu Inscription (SIRD, Petaling Jaya, 2017), Suara Minangkabau (Penerbit Universiti Malaya, 2012), Letters of Sincerity: The Raffles Collection of Malay Letters (1780 – 1824) A Descriptive Account With Notes and Translation, MBRAS, Kuala Lumpur, 2009), Sejarah Awal Pers dan Kebangkitan Kesadaran Keindonesiaan (Hasta Mitra & Perwakilan KITLV, Jakarta, 2003), dan resensi terbaru Sulalat u’s-Salatin (Yayasan Karyawan, Kuala Lumpur, 2016) yang berasaskan naskhah Krusenstern, yang kini tersimpan di Perpustakaan Arkib Naskhah-Naskhah Oriental di St. Petersburg, Russia.
