Carita Sultan Iskandar, Carita Nabi Yusuf, and Kitab Usulbiyah - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Ricklefs, M. C.
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Leiden
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Brill
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Carita Sultan Iskandar, Carita Nabi Yusuf , and Kitab Usulbiyah are three books credited with supernatural power, written at the Javanese court of Kartasura in 1729-30 at the behest of King Pakubuwana II's pious Ṣūfī grandmother, Ratu Pakubuwana (b. c.1657). She was the wife of King Pakubuwana I (r. 1704-19), the mother of Amangkurat IV (r. 1719-26), and grandmother of Pakubuwana II (r. 1726-49), whose reign she aimed to turn into that of a model Ṣūfī king. She was a person of great influence at