Azis2019-09-252019-09-252016-06-042015-06http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/153293This article examines one aspect of Islamic historical study in Nusantara, they are historical actor, process, time Islamization. This research utilizes historical sources that have not been widely used to study the issue of literary manuscript history of Malay history. The results of this study generally reinforce one of the “theory” that has been there all along that Islam has come since the end of the seventh century, especially in the early days of the development of Islam in Arabia, involving of scholar actors, royal elite, and traders significantly, and through the top-down although the roles played of bottom-up traders and Sufis also cannot be ignored at the earlier times.indWith permission of the license/copyright holdernusantarahistoryIslamReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsGeneral and historicalCommunity ethicsEthnicity and ethicsJournal volume