The Battle for Junk Ceylon: The Syair Sultan Maulana - Skinner, C.
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The Battle for Junk Ceylon presents a new scholarly edition of the text of the Malay "ballad" known as the Syair Sultan Maulana, together with an English translation. This long poem was written during the second decade of the 19th century by the secretary to the Lakasamana (Admiral) of the sultanate of Kedah. It gives an eye-witness account if the events which occurred during the early part of the reign of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin, in particular the part played by the Kedah fleet in helping the Siamese to expel the Burmese form the island of Phuket ("Junk Ceylon") on the west coast of southern Thailand.…mehr

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The Battle for Junk Ceylon presents a new scholarly edition of the text of the Malay "ballad" known as the Syair Sultan Maulana, together with an English translation. This long poem was written during the second decade of the 19th century by the secretary to the Lakasamana (Admiral) of the sultanate of Kedah. It gives an eye-witness account if the events which occurred during the early part of the reign of Sultan Ahmad Tajuddin, in particular the part played by the Kedah fleet in helping the Siamese to expel the Burmese form the island of Phuket ("Junk Ceylon") on the west coast of southern Thailand.
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Professor Skinner (1924) has also edited the Syair Perang Mengkasar (1963) and Ahmad Rijaluddin's Hikayat Perintah Negeri Benggala (1982), and has written a number of articles on Malay "transitional" Literature. He is Chairman of the Department of Indonesian and Malay at Monash University in Australia.