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The Sejarah Melayu tradition of power and political order : a study in political legitimation

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Title

The Sejarah Melayu tradition of power and political order : a study in political legitimation

Subject

Melaka--Politics and government
Melaka--History

Description

Abstrak

This thesis is an examination of the concepts of power and political struc ture, and of the mode of their legitima tion, as described in +ho Raffles MS 18 vesion of the Sejarah Me layu. To quote the Introduction, "the thesis aims at distilling a theory of early Malay political beliefs... The Introduc tion outlines the research principles applied to the Raffles MS 18 (a combination of bo th historica.l method and ideas borrowed from political sociolo gy and anthr opo].ogy), and briefly reviews the Raffles MS 18 and other versions of the Sejarah Me layu, as well as other old Ma.lay texts of relevance to Malay political thinking of the 15th-16th centuries.

Creator

Moy, Timothy J.

Source

DS598 M23MOY

Date

1977

Contributor

mki

Rights

Universiti Malaya

Format

Dissertation