نقش ترڠݢانو
The Terengganu Inscription
702 AH · 1303 CE
Kuala Berang كوالا بيرڠ
A stone found at Kuala Berang in Terengganu records, in Malay written in Jawi, a ruler's order to uphold Islamic law, dated 702 AH (1303). It is the oldest known Malay text in Jawi script and among the earliest evidence of Islam as a state religion in the Malay peninsula.
Sources
- Barbara Watson Andaya and Leonard Y. Andaya, A History of Malaysia (3rd ed., 2017)
Draft, awaiting scholarly review.
The date on the stone is partly damaged; 702 AH (1303) is the accepted reading, though 1326 and 1386 have been proposed.