السلطان علاء الدين

Sultan Alauddin of Gowa (RH)

Also known as: I Mangngarangi Daeng Manrabbia, Sultan Alauddin

994–1049 AH · 1586–1639 CE

Reigned 1593–1639 CE

Rulers Gowa-Tallo Sultanate

The first Muslim king of Gowa, who embraced Islam in 1605 and spread it among the Bugis kingdoms.

Sultan Alauddin became king of Gowa in south Sulawesi as a child. In 1605, with his chief minister Karaeng Matoaya of Tallo, he embraced Islam through the preacher Datuk ri Bandang, and Gowa-Tallo became a Muslim sultanate.

In the following years Gowa's campaigns brought the Bugis kingdoms of Bone, Wajo and Soppeng into Islam by 1611. Makassar grew into a great open port, a refuge for traders shut out by the Dutch spice monopoly.

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