Bendahara Sri Maharaja Tun Mutahir (died 1510) was a famous bendahara

Bendahara

Bendahara is an administrative position within classical Malay kingdoms before the intervention of European powers during the 19th century. A bendahara was appointed by a sultan and was a hereditary post. It was the office that is held by bendahara family...

 of the Malaccan Sultanate. He was the seventh bendahara, a post equivalent to a prime minister

Prime minister

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. Prior to holding the post of bendahara, he also held the post of Temenggung

Temenggung

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. Mutahir was highly respected to the extent that traders who would visit Malacca would recite a prayer that included the verse "semoga dapat bertemu Bendahara Seri Maharaja" (May we be able to meet the Bendahara Seri Maharaja). He was also an influential Gujerat Muslim

Muslim

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 leader in Malacca who elected Gujerat Muslims to important posts in the Malaccan government. This caused uneasiness among Malays (Raja Mendeliar and Laksamana Khoja Hassan), they accused Mutahir of conspiring a plot to overthrow Sultan Mahmud. The sultan immediately ordered the execution of Mutahir's family with the exception of Tun Fatimah

Tun Fatimah

Tun Fatimah was a well-known Malaysian heroine and daughter to the Malaccan Bendahara who lived during the 16th century. She was married to Malacca's Sultan Mahmud Shah as one of his consorts after all her male siblings were executed....

, Mutahir's daughter whom the sultan desired to marry. Upon realizing his mistake, Sultan Mahmud abdicated in favour of his son, Sultan Ahmad Shah

Ahmad Shah of Malacca

Ahmad Shah of Malacca was a sultan of what is now Malaysia.The son of Sultan Mahmud Shah, Ahmad Shah's rule began in 1511 when his father stepped aside. It ended in 1513 when he died during the kingdom's war with Portugal: His father stabbed him after failing the attack to conquer Malacca...

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