Bukhari al-Jauhari

Almost nothing is known about this author, and even the reading of his name is uncertain: the sources hesitate between Jawhari of Bukhara and Bukhari of Johor, and no document makes it possible to decide. The text suggests a Sunni Muslim scholar, familiar with poetry and with Persian treatises on government, probably trained outside the archipelago, active at the court of the sultanate of Aceh, in northern Sumatra, under the reign of Alauddin Riayat Shah, at the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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• NovelTaj al-SalatinBukhari al-Jauhari · 1603not translated into EnglishLiterature