Person
Parameswara
Also called: Iskandar Shah
Founder of the Malacca Sultanate (c. 1400), a prince from Palembang in Sumatra who built Malacca into a trading port under Ming patronage
Where they went
1 related event
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Malacca on the Malay Peninsula prospered as an entrepôt between east and west, and its ruler embraced Islam. Following the merchants, Islam spread across the Malay Peninsula and Indonesia.
People who appear alongside
- Zheng He1371 – 1433
Ming eunuch admiral from a Muslim family of Yunnan who, at the Yongle Emperor’s command, led seven great fleets from 1405 through Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean to East Africa
Themes this person appears in
- Turkic-Islamic Empires and Other Civilizations1000 – 1533
From the Ghaznavid raids on India to the Mughal Empire and Suleiman I — five centuries in which Turkic-led Islamic empires took western Asia and India, while Africa, Southeast Asia and the Americas raised civilisations of their own