THE GREEN QUEEN: How Four Women Ruled a Malay Kingdom for a Century - Tapa blanda

THE GREEN QUEEN : How Four Women Ruled a Malay Kingdom for a Century

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Four queens. One Malay Muslim kingdom. A century-long political tradition almost forgotten by the wider world.In 1584, the Sultanate of Patani faced a dynastic crisis. With no acceptable male heir, Raja Hijau-the Green Queen-ascended the throne. What began as an emergency solution became something far more remarkable.She was followed by Raja Biru, Raja Ungu, and Raja Kuning. Across sixty-seven years of unbroken succession, four women governed one of maritime Southeast Asia's most important Muslim trading states. Beyond them, female rule continued under another dynasty, creating a political tradition that endured for more than a century.THE GREEN QUEEN reconstructs this extraordinary chapter of Southeast Asian history.At its height, Patani was not a forgotten frontier. It was a cosmopolitan port connected to China, Japan, India, the Malay world, Siam, and the emerging European trading companies. Chinese merchants, Japanese traders, Portuguese adventurers, Dutch VOC officials, and English East India Company agents all entered a kingdom ruled by women.Drawing on the Hikayat Patani, early European accounts, and modern historical scholarship, Qaishar Kamaruzzaman examines how these queens actually governed-and challenges the older portrayal of them as ceremonial figureheads.Why did female rule survive for generations in a Muslim Malay sultanate Why did merchants and powerful nobles accept it How were royal authority, Islam, dynastic legitimacy, diplomacy, and commerce connected And why did the political system eventually disappear From Raja Hijau's long era of prosperity to Raja Ungu's confrontation with Siam and Raja Kuning's attempt to restore a damaged kingdom, the book follows the choices that shaped Patani at the height of its power.It also asks a larger question: what does Patani tell us about women, political authority, and Islam in early modern Southeast Asia Written for both general readers and students of Asian history, THE GREEN QUEEN brings an overlooked Malay kingdom back into the history of the early modern world. Nº de ref. del artículo: 9798174002326

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