[36] “Depois que estes de induzidos por os Mouros Parseos, e Guzarates (que alli vieram residir por causa do commercio), de Gentios os convertêram á secta de Mahamed. Da qual conversão por alli concorrerem varias nações, começou laurar esta inferna peste pela virzinhança de Malaca.” (De Barros, Dec. ii. Liv. vi. cap. i. p. 15.) [↑]
[37] Aristide Marre: Malâka. Histoire des rois malays de Malâka. Traduit et extrait du Livre des Annales malayses, intitulé en arabe Selâlet al Selâtyn, p. 8. (Paris, 1874.) [↑]
[38] Crawfurd (1), pp. 241–2. [↑]
[39] De Barros, Dec. iv. Liv. ii. cap. 1. [↑]
[40] Barbosa, writing in 1516, speaks of the numerous Muhammadan merchants that frequented the port of Queda. (Ramusio, tom. i. p. 317.) [↑]
[41] The form مزلف does not actually occur in the Qurʼān; reference is probably made to some such passage as xxvi. 90: وَأزْلِفَتِ آلْجَنَّةُ اِلْمُتَّقِينَ “And paradise shall be brought near the pious.” [↑]
[42] A translation of the Keddah Annals, by Lieut.-Col. James Low, vol. iii. pp. 474–7. [↑]
[43] A translation of the Keddah Annals, by Lieut.-Col. James Low, vol. iii. p. 480. [↑]