Nuruddin ar-Raniri

[6][7][8] He arrived in Aceh in 1637 and enjoyed the patronage of Iskandar Thani (reigned 1636–1641) in quality of jurist consult (Arabic: mufti)[9] and later of the highest-ranking religious office of Shaykh al-Islām.

[10] He denounced his predecessors at the Acehnese court, Hamzah Pansuri and Syamsuddin of Pasai, for what he saw as their heresy in violation of the Islamic belief that God was unchanged by his creation.

His most notable work was the Bustan as-Salatin ("The Garden of Kings"), begun in 1638 and written in Malay based on Arabic sources.

It is a seven-volume encyclopedic work, covering the history of the world from the creation through the period of prophets of Islam and the Muslim kings of the Middle East and the Malay area, as well as several sciences.

He lost favour with the court of Iskandar Thani's successor, his widow Taj ul-Alam, and left Aceh in 1644, and died in India in 1658.