Sultan of Johor

Sultan of Johor
Provincial/State
Arms of His Royal Highness the Sultan of Johor
Incumbent
Sultan Ibrahim Ismail ibni al-Marhum Sultan Mahmud Iskandar since 23 January 2010
Details
Style	His Royal Highness
Heir apparent	Tunku Ismail Idris ibni Sultan Ibrahim Ismail
First monarch	Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Formation	1528

Sultan of Johor is a hereditary seat and the nominal ruler of the Malaysian state of Johor. In the past, the sultan held absolute power over the state and was advised by a bendahara. Nowadays, the role of bendahara has been taken over by a more powerful chief minister with the sultan's office being reduced to a figurehead who performs ceremonial and other socio-cultural functions.

History

The first sultan of Johor was Alauddin Riayat Shah II. He was the son of the last sultan of Malacca, Sultan Mahmud Shah. The scion of the Sultanate of Malacca in Johor ended with the death of Sultan Mahmud Shah II in 1699 and throne was taken over by Sultan Abdul Jalil IV. Abdul Jalil IV was a bendahara before the death of the sultan.

Though Johor has been ruled over by at least 20 sultans, the first sultan of modern Johor (Temenggong dynasty)^[1] was Sultan Abu Bakar who reigned from 1862 to 1895. He was the first person from the temenggung family to become the sultan in Johor's history. His father, Temenggung Ibrahim managed to consolidate enough power to disfranchise Sultan Ali who died in 1877.

Office-holder

The office of sultan is currently held by Sultan Ibrahim Ismail of Johor, who was crowned as the 25th Sultan of Johor on 23 January 2010. His father, Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Ismail Al-Khalidi, a great-grandson of Sultan Abu Bakar died on 22 January 2010. Ibrahim Ismail, the then Tunku Mahkota of Johor (Crown Prince of Johor), was appointed as Acting Sultan of Johor on the same day. The proclamation of His Royal Highness' death was announced nationwide by the Menteri Besar of Johor, Datuk Seri Abdul Ghani Othman later that night. The funeral was held on 23 January after the coronation of Sultan Ibrahim Ismail.

List of office bearers

Genealogy tree

Y.M. = Yang Mulia (he who is illustrious, equivalent to The Noble a style enjoyed, among others, by the male line Royal descendants of the son of a ruler). Y.A.M. = Yang Amat Mulia (he who is most illustrious, a style enjoyed by the younger sons and daughters of a ruler.) [3]

See also

• Johor Sultanate

Notes

References

• Nesalamar Nadarajah, Johore and the Origins of British Control, 1895–1914, Arenabuku, 2000, ISBN 967-970-318-5

T. Wignesan, "A Peranakan's View of the fin de siècle monde malais - Na Tian Piet's Endearing syair of Epic Proportions" [partial tranls. with introduction and notes to Na Tian Piet's "Sha'er of the late Sultan Abu Bakar (of Johor)"]in The Gombak Review, Vol. 4,N° 2 (International Islamic University Malaysia), Kuala Lumpur, 1999, pp. 101–121. Cf. also: T. Wignesan. Sporadic Striving amid Echoed Voices, Mirrored Images and Stereotypic Posturing in Malaysian-Singaporean Literatures. Allahabad: Cyberwit.net, 2008, pp. 196–218. ISBN 978-81-8253-120-8 Cf. http://www.stateless.freehosting.net/TTianPiet.htm

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