Rigel Kent

In 1445, Sri Parameswara Dewa Shah, wrote 1 to the Ming Court with a list of requests (regalia + state visit). a command paper 護國敕書 to cement his new throne a new four-claw dragon robe 2 蟒龍衣服 a new parasol 傘盖 a diplomatic trip or state visit 3 to Beijing 欲躬親來朝 a new ship 巨舟 to facilitate the travel from Melaka to China A four-claw dragon robe 蟒龍衣服 This list cast a rather skewed and embarrasing light on Sri Parameswara and his ability to rule. Indeed, we were told by Sejarah Melayu, after a short reign of 17 months, the weak king was killed in a coup d'état staged by his half-brother Raja Kassim and Raja Kassim's maternal uncle 4 , Tun Ali. The result: Raja Kassim was installed as Muzaffar. 5 Muzaffar tin pitis 6 (reverse) - Nasir al-Dunia wa al-Din (ناصر الدنيا والدين) - Defender of the Faith (الدين) and the World (الدنيا), written in Tughra style. Muzaff...

The Ian Proudfoot (2002) AHAD: A macro for converting Muslim and Christian dates. This implementation of the al-Battani type arithmetic Islamic calendar was first written in February 2002 and last revised in May 2008. See also Ian Proudfoot (2006) Old Muslim calendars of Southeast Asia, Leiden, Brill. calendrical algorithm employed by the late ANU scholar Ian Proudfoot in his AHAD spreadsheet macro is a variant of the arithmetic Islamic calendar, and it is based on the earlier work by Greville S. P. Freeman-Grenville (1963) The Muslim and Christian calendars; being tables for the conversion of Muslim and Christian dates from the Hijra to the year A.D. 2000, Oxford University Press, London. Freeman-Grenville . The algorithm can provide a convenient initial value to approximate the Gregorian equivalent of an Islamic date. However, because the sunset of the prior day vs. midnight datum of a given weekday is different in Islamic reckoning and Gregorian reckoning, unless the we...