Nyaicili Boki Raja

Being the daughter, wife, sister and mother of kings, she had a potentially bridge-building function between the competing Malukan spice Sultanates Ternate and Tidore, but was repeatedly sidelined by the brutal policy of early European colonialism in Maluku.

Her original name is not known, since Nyaicili Boki Raja (Naychile Puka Raga) is a title meaning "Junior Lady Royal Princess".

[2] On the other hand, Christiaan van Fraassen posits that Bayan Sirrullah married two daughters of al-Mansur, of which the second gave birth to Tabariji.

Relations between the Queen Mother and Darwis were consequently rocky, and the Portuguese captain in Ternate took her sons into custody, causing her to flee to her father in Tidore for a while.

She had previously remarried with the nobleman and jogugu (first minister) Pati Serangi and is described as a shrewd woman who cultivated a deep knowledge of the Muslim religion.

Tabariji befriended a Portuguese official Jordão de Freitas and turned a Christian under his influence, receiving the name Dom Manuel.

[7] When Freitas became captain of the Ternate fort in 1544 he saw it that Tabariji was recalled from his Indian exile, while the current Sultan Hairun was arrested and dethroned on dubious grounds.

[10] In the next year already, Freitas took over ruling powers from her, and she and her spouse stayed in the house of Baltasar Veloso who had married a Ternate princess.

[12] In conclusion, according to Paramita Abdurrachman, "Meant to be the bridge between two ambitious powers, Tidore and Ternate, personified for her personality by her father and husband, this dream could not be materialized...