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" Erucakra - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Carey, Peter
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AL
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English
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1061530
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ALei1927
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Carey, Peter
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Erucakra - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Carey, Peter
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(783 words)
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The term Erucakra is a title closely associated in Java with the concept of the ratu adil (Just King), a ruler who was expected to arise at the end of a period of chaos and socio-economic distress to establish a new rule of justice and plenty. This concept was linked with the “Jayabaya prophecies” (Ramalan Jayabaya) , which claim to be derived from Prabu Jayabaya, a twelfth-century ruler of Kediri, in east Java, and which purport to foretell the historical cycles through which Java would pass (Wiselius). These cycles
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Islam.
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ALei1927.pdf
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