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from Pliny. Lyly deployed it, performed before court and queen, to influence Elizabeth I's policies against Spain. This would have fit well into the discussion of imperialism, though Lyly is not well known today, and his absence from Ng's book is perhaps pardonable. She discusses how the seventeenth-century Acehnese culture on Sumatra had many imitatores Alexandri. Their sultans adopted qualities associated with the Macedonian as they had received him through literary traditions permeating Southeast Asia. She cites an apt example of a 1615 letter from Sultan Iskander Muda to King James I refusing British trade in Sumatra. Sultan Iskander is a Malay imitator whose very name derives out of the Islamic Alexander (Iskander) tradition. His letter follows the literary phraseology of Alexander letters from the Hikayat Iskander Zulkarnain, a Malay epic relating the fictional exploits of King Iskandar Zulkarnain, mentioned in the Quran (18:82-100), and generally considered an Islamic reception of Alexander. Iskandar Zulkarnain was claimed as a direct forebear of the Minangkabau kingdoms of Sumatra, much as the Scottish royal dynasties also claimed similar links with Alexander, with several

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Author

Achsah Guibbory

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)