Cirebon , in present-day West Java, was among the earliest of the Muslim states of Java. Our understanding of its early history has been muddled by the "discovery" in the 1970s of a chronicle called Purwaka Caruban Nagari ("The origins of the state of Caruban," i.e. Cirebon), which was claimed to be of eighteenth-century origin but is generally considered by scholars to be a twentieth-century fake. Cirebon was apparently occupied by Muslims - probably Chinese - late in the fifteenth century C.E., but its florescence is associated with