Sultan Abu Bakar's Foreign Guests and Travels Abroad, 1860s-1895: Fact and Fiction in Early Malay Historical Accounts

• Main Author: A Rahman Tang Abdullah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 2011
• Subjects: DS591-599 Malaysia. Malay Peninsula. Straits Settlements; DT7-12.25 Description and travel
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39192/1/ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39192/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/39192/; https://doi.org/10.1353/ras.2011.0002

Much has been written about the foreign travels of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johor (r.1862-1895). A comparison of the various versions reveals that early Malay accounts of these foreign trips tended to be uncritical, fragmentary, partial, to praise and glorify him unreservedly, to invent and exaggerate fa...