Batavia in the memoirs of an eye-witness: autobiographical notes from the chronicle Tuhfat an-Nafis

• Main Author: Denisova, Tatiana A.
• Format: Article
• Published: MAE RAS 2019
• Subjects: BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/97126/; http://dx.doi.org/10.31250/2618-8600-2019-1(3)-99-129

The chronicle Tuhfat an-Nafis (“The Precious Gift”) is one of the most significant sources for the history of Johor, a very important independent Muslim state in the Malay Archipelago which existed between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Tuhfat an-Nafis was written around 1866 by Raja Ali...