Terengganu Inscription Stone is the oldest artifact with Jawi writing on it. The inscriptions, which are in Malay, believed to be written on 22 February 1303. The artifact proves that Islam reached Terengganu earlier than 1326 or 1386.

At the UNESCO International Advisory Committee meeting in Barbados on 13 July 2009, the 700-year-old inscribed stone was listed as an item eligible for world heritage recognition.

It was accidentally discovered near Sungai Tersat at Kuala Berang

Kuala Berang

Kuala Berang is the seat and largest town of Hulu Terengganu District, Terengganu, Malaysia. The town serves as a gateway to Lake Kenyir. The historical Terengganu Inscription Stone was found near Kuala Berang in 1899. The town of Kuala Berang once had been the capital of the state of Terengganu...

, Terengganu

Terengganu

Terengganu is a sultanate and constitutive state of federal Malaysia. The state is also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Iman...

, Malaysia by an Arab trader named Sayid Husin bin Ghulam al-Bokhari in 1899 after a flash flood hit Kuala Berang. The inscription on the stone proclaims Islam as the state religion of Terengganu.

External links

• Batu Bersurat Terengganu ( Inscribed Stone of Terengganu) SEJARAH RINGKAS NEGERI TERENGGANU - gov.my
• Batu Bersurat Terengganu
• A Short History of Malaysia by Virginia Matheson Hooker Page 5 ISBN 1864489553