List of Sultans of Brunei
Sultans

List of Sultans of Brunei

Section Title: Sultans
Table Section Text: None

No.	Name	Reign start	Reign end	Notes

1	Muhammad Shah / Awang Alak Betatar	1368	1402	Established the Sultanate.

2	Ahmad / Awang Pateh Berbai	1408	1425

3	Sharif Ali / Sultan Barkat (Blessed Sultan)	1425	1432	No direct genealogical relation to predecessor, but was selected as he was the son-in-law of the previous sultan (Ahmad) and was well versed in Islam.

4	Sulaiman	1432	1485	Son of the previous sultan, Sharif Ali. Abdicated to allow his son Bolkiah to become sultan.

5	Bolkiah / Nakhoda Ragam (The Singing Captain)	1485	1524	Son of the previous sultan, Sulaiman.

6	Abdul Kahar	1524	1530	Son of the previous sultan, Bolkiah

7	Saiful Rijal	1533	1581	Nephew and adopted-son of the previous sultan, Abdul Kahar. Castile War broke out between Brunei and Spain.

8	Shah Berunai	1581	1582	Eldest son of Sultan Saiful Rijal

9	Muhammad Hassan	1582	1598	Younger brother of Shah Berunai.

10	Abdul Jalilul Akbar	1598	1659

11	Abdul Jalilul Jabbar	1659	1660

12	Muhammad Ali	1660	1661	Strangled by his successor Abdul Hakkul Mubin, sparking the Brunei Civil War.

13	Abdul Hakkul Mubin	1660	1673	Started the Brunei Civil War by killing his predecessor Muhammad Ali and was in turn killed by Muhyiddin who succeeded him as Sultan.

14	Muhyiddin	1673	1690	Son of Abdul Jalilul Akbar who avenged the death of his father-in-law Muhammad Ali by killing Abdul Hakkul Mubin, thus ending the Brunei Civil War.

15	Nasruddin	1690	1710

16	Hussin Kamaluddin	1710	1730	He ruled for the second time between 1737 to 1740.

17	Muhammad Alauddin	1730	1737	Instructed Datu Imam Yaakub to write the Silsilah Raja-Raja Berunai or the Genealogy of the Sultans of Brunei.

18	Omar Ali Saifuddin I	1740	1778

19	Muhammad Tajuddin	1778	1807	Ordered Khatib Abdul Latif to inscribe Batu Tarsilah or Stone Tablet.

20	Muhammad Jamalul Alam I	1804	1804

21	Muhammad Kanzul Alam	1807	1826

22	Muhammad Alam	1826	1828

23	Omar Ali Saifuddin II	1828	1852	Brunei ceded some territories of Sarawak to James Brooke. Brunei ceded Labuan to the British.

24	Abdul Momin	1852	29 May 1885	Brunei ceded northwestern part of Borneo to the British. The declaration of Amanat took place in 1884 that vowed not to cede more Brunei territories to foreign powers.

25	Hashim Jalilul Alam Aqamaddin	29 May 1885	10 May 1906	United Kingdom established protectorate over Brunei in 1888.

26	Muhammad Jamalul Alam II	10 May 1906	11 September 1924	The Sultan's reign was a short one. An outbreak of malaria claimed his life as well as three members of his family.

27	Ahmad Tajuddin	11 September 1924	4 June 1950	Japanese occupation of Brunei took place.

28	Omar Ali Saifuddien III	4 June 1950	5 October 1967	Signed the Brunei Constitution of 1959. Abdicated voluntarily in favor of his eldest son, Hassanal Bolkiah.

29	Hassanal Bolkiah	5 October 1967	Incumbent	Brunei regained independence from the United Kingdom in 1984.

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Muhammad Ali was the twelfth Sultan of Brunei.

final_sentence: Muhammad Ali was the twelfth Sultan of Brunei.