Tengku Alam Shah

Tengku Alam Shah
BornJune 1846[1]
Kampong Glam, Singapore
Died26 August 1891(1891-08-26) (aged 45)[2]
Kampong Glam, Singapore
Burial
Sultan Mosque, Singapore
SpouseTengku Mariam[3]
Issue1. Tengku Haji Ali Iskandar Shah II
2. Tengku Gedung Aishah
3. Tengku Mariam
4. Tengku Nuteh[3]
HouseHouse of Bendahara dynasty
FatherAli of Johor
MotherDaing Siti
ReligionSunni Islam

Tengku Alam Shah, Tengku Ali Iskandar Shah was a prince of the House of Bendahara (Johor),[4] and was the oldest son of Sultan Ali, the 19th Sultan of Johor by his second wife, Daing Siti. Following his father's death in 1877, Tengku Alam and his supporters made an active pursuit to his claims for the Kesang territory and was publicly proclaimed as the Sultan of Johor and Pahang with the regnal name of Alauddin Alam Shah during his marriage ceremony in 1879. The proclamation briefly alarmed Maharaja Abu Bakar, who feared that his political position may be threatened. Within the same year, a brief civil war erupted in Jementah, after repeated attempts to get his claims to the Kesang territory being recognised failed.[5]

  1. ^ Studer, American and British Claims Arbitration: William Webster: Appendix to the Memorial of the United States, Vol. III, pg 358
  2. ^ Lee, The British as Rulers: Governing Multiracial Singapore, 1867–1914, pg 13
  3. ^ a b Adil, Sejarah Johor, pg 287
  4. ^ Lai, Beyond Rituals and Riots: Ethnic Pluralism and Social Cohesion in Singapore, pg 51
  5. ^ Winstedt, A History of Johore (1365–1941), pg 131