Hikayat Hang Tuah; Malay epic and muslim mirror; Some considerations on its date, meaning and structure

The Making of the Medieval Malay Hero Hang Tuah: Stories Behind the Epic Scene

“…Authorial sources (oral and written) can be numerous, and indeed the author of HHT do tap his materials from these informants, among these sources (traceable in the texts) include works form authors of Sejarah Melayu, Bustan al-Salatin, Taj al-Salatin, Hikayat Aceh, even Hikayat Ibrahim Ibn Adham (T. Iskandar, 1970;Braginsky, 1990 ). But we need one author to consciously select, manipulate, appropriate and arrange these diverse materials to bring forth singlehandedly a unique literary creation as monumental as HHT.…”

“…One of the proponents of this metaphorical or allegorical reading of HHT is Braginsky (1990). To him HHT is a "pasemon" a political allegory of the Johor-Jambi (read: Malay-Javanese) conflicts in 17th Century.…”

“…It witnessed one of the worst degradation of Malay power politically and economically, in the hands of both foreign and locally emerging power. Ever since 1511, the Malacca-Johor kingdom had been beset unceasingly by a number of calamities-the prolonged attacks from Portuguese (1518( -1536( , Andaya, 1978 followed by Aceh (1613-1682, Andaya, 1978 and Jambi (1650( -1680( , Braginsky, 1990.…”

The Concept of Happiness of the Malay Hero Hang Tuah

“…As for the Muslim Malays in the Malay Archipelago (circa 15 th -16 th century), their sense of happiness is achieved by demonstrating their loyalty in serving their king as shown rather splendidly by their hero Hang Tuah. It appears that the fall of the Malaccan Empire to Portuguese (1511 A.D.) and Netherlands (1641 A.D) has compelled the Malay intelligentsia to write a manuscript, the Hikayat Hang Tuah (The Tale of Hang Tuah), that is imbued with the ideological desire to reclaim, restore and uphold the greatness, strength and dignity of Malay sovereignty [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Indeed, Hang Tuah became the ideal portrayal of a virtuous role model for his nation.…”

Gestalt analysis of wiraism in puteri gunung ledang

“…Hang Tuah functions as a 'bridge' to connect adat to a modern Malay audience, a notion which subsequently pervaded in the form of wiraism in which "conceptions of Islam and adat enacted, performed, and embodied in the way Malays walk, talk, sit, stand, eat, step past a seated person, lie down and sleep" (Farrer D. S., 2009, p. 98). (Liaw, 2013;Hooykaas, 1947;Braginsky, 1990). Scholars were however at odds with each over the value of sastera sejarah as legitimate sources of historical information.…”