Talk:Mahmud Shah of Malacca

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who is sultan mahmud and why he fail?

Raja Mudaliar

In Sejarah Melayu, it was mainly Si Kitul and Raja Mudaliar who created the false accusation that caused the Sultan to execute Mutahir and family, not "jealous Malay ministers"... Raja Mudaliar was a Syahbandar, his motivation for doing so is unclear, but being a Hindu, it is known that the Portuguese favoured Hindu traders and around that time was planning to attack Malacca. I'm also not sure if Tun Mutahir is Tamil or Gujarati, or both. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.171.165.39 (talk) 17:32, 20 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Questionable birth date?

Currently, the infobox for Mahmud Shah states he was born in 1429 & started his reign as the 8th Sultan of Malacca in 1488, thus making him being 59 years of age when he had ascended to the throne. However, the page also mentions that his father, the Sultan before him, had suffered a "premature death", & thus "he was installed at a very young age". This obviously does not makes sense. How could someone be 59 years old & still be considered to be "at a very young age"?

Additionally, as the Sultans of Malacca had, for most of its parts, been a succession of fathers to sons, if Mahmud Shah were to be born in 1429, then that would mean he would've been born during the reign of his great-great grandfather, Muhammad Shah (r. 1424–1444), who was the 3rd Sultan of Malacca at that time.

Unfortunately, I have no access to any of the existing sources already listed on this page, nor to any primary or secondary sources so I cannot go back & check where in the source materials was his birth date mentioned, hence why I am not willing to edit this info out cause hey, maybe he was born in 1429 & had ascended to the throne when he was at the "very young age" of 59. But surely it must be a case of mistaken identity or some sort of translation error. As such, maybe it is best then to simply put in the year in which he had reigned & his death as this was also how it was done in the Wikipedia pages for the other Malaccan Sultans. CrockyStorm (talk) 02:59, 26 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]