2. THE COMING OF ISLAM
• In northern Sumatra Islam established
its first beach-heads
• The Venetian traveller Marco Polo
mentions Muslims in Perlak in 1292 CE
• In neighbouring Pasai a royal
gravestone inscribed with the date 697
AH (1297 CE) and the Muslim title
Sultan Malik al-Salih ('the saintly king')
has been found