The people of Perlak (Nth Sumatra) used to be idolaters, but owing to contact with Saracen merchants, who continually resort here in their ships, they have all been converted to the law of Mahomet.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The people of Perlak (Nth Sumatra) used to be idolaters, but owing to contact with Saracen merchants, who continually resort here in their ships, they have all been converted to the law of Mahomet." in the context of "Marco Polo, quoted in The lslamization of Southeast Asia by Anthony Reid, 1984. Reid, A., 'The Islamization of Southeast Asia', in: Bakar, M. A., Kaur, A. and Ghaz- ali, A. Z. (eds), Historia: &says in Commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the Department of History, University of Malaya (Kuala Lumpur, 1984)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.