Inscribed stone of Terengganu (side B)

Batu Bersurat Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu).

The Batu Bersurat Terengganu (Inscribed Stone of Terengganu) constitutes the earliest evidence of Jawi writing (based on Arabic alphabets) in the Malaya Muslim world of Southeast Asia. With the advent of Islam in the region, in the 10th or 11th centuries, a life based on the teachings of Al-Quran and Hadith became widespread in Southeast Asia. Together, with the use of the Jawi script, it heralded a new age of literacy, when converts to the new faith gradually replaced the previous Hindu script with Jawi. It’s offers testimony to the spread of Islam and depicts the growing Islamic culture subsumed under a set of religious laws.