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Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699

By: Khan, Sher Banu
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Language: English

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In Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom, Sher Banu A. L. Khan provides a fresh perspective on the women who ruled in succession in Aceh for half the seventeenth century. Khan draws fresh evidence about the lives and reigns of the sultanahs from contemporary indigenous texts and the archives of the Dutch East India Company.

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By:Khan, Sher Banu
Language:English
Format:Softcover
Pages: 316 pp
Publisher:Cornell University Press, Ithaca 2017
Dimensions:17 x 24 cm
ISBN-13:9781501713859
Topic:History - Queens - Islamic Countries - Indonesia - 17th century

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The long reign of the sultanahs of Aceh is striking in a society where women rulers are usually seen as unnatural calamities, a violation of nature, or even forbidden in the name of religion. Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom demonstrates how the sultanahs' rule was legitimized by both Islam and adat (indigenous customary laws). Khan provides original insights on the women's style of leadership and their unique relations with the male elite and foreign European envoys who visited their court. This book calls into question received views on kingship in the Malay world and shows how an indigenous polity responded to European companies in the age of early East-West encounters during Southeast Asia's age of commerce.

Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699
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