Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR), volume 95 2017 International Conference on Education, Economics and Management Research (ICEEMR 2017) 19th Century Pahang Islamic Scholars in ‘A History of Pahang’ Amnah Saayah Ismail, B. Jalal and M. Md Saman Wan Kamal Mujani National Defense University of Malaysia Department of Arabic Studies & Islamic Civilization Sungai Besi Camp, 57000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Faculty of Islamic Studies
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[email protected] [email protected] Abstract—The 19th century saw an exciting development of pertaining to the lineage of the early rulers of Pahang, families Islam in Pahang. The development encompasses various aspects of the Bendahara and the modern day Sultan, principal such as knowledge development, roles of scholars and the chieftains, selected papers of Maharaja Perba, citations from emergence of various Islamic institutions. This subject has been Castanheda, photographs and maps. As the focus of this paper dwelled by several western writers; one of them was W. Linehan. is on the progress of religious scholars in Pahang, Linehan’s “A Linehan dealt with this subject in his journal entitled “A History History of Pahang” is an important reference as it is considered of Pahang”, where he highlighted the prominence of several a complete rendering of Pahang’s history throughout the 19th Islamic scholars such as Mufti Abdul Shukur, Kadi Ibrahim and century. It is also a credible journal as Linehan’s primary Tuan Sanggang. This paper which employs content analysis and source of reference includes records from the Colonial Office library studies will focus on Linehan’s chronicle on several and letters of Maharaja Perba [1].