Alauddin I of Gowa

Alauddin I, born I Mangngarangi, was the fourteenth ruler of Gowa in South Sulawesi and the first sultan of the Sultanate of Gowa (r. 1593–1639). ^{1 2} He was the first ruler of Gowa to embrace Islam, which he did in 1605, and he made Islam the religion of the state. ¹

He was the son of Tunijalloq, the twelfth king of Gowa, and was installed as king in 1593 at the age of seven after his elder brother Tunipasuluq's rule ended. ^{1 2} At about nine he was introduced to Islam by Datuk ri Bandang, a Minangkabau preacher from Koto Tangah, and on 22 September 1605 he converted, taking the name Alauddin; the Gowa–Talloq kingdom was then renamed the Sultanate of Gowa. ^{1 2}

His reign, shared with the chief minister Karaeng Matoaya, saw large-scale expansion across Sulawesi, continued against Bone, and was driven in large part by the spread of Islam and by the sultanate's commercial ambitions; he built the forts Ana Gowa and Garassi and declared the seas of the sultanate open to traders of every origin. ^{1 2} Islam's adoption as the official state religion under him extended through the population of the realm. ¹

He fell ill at Cikkoang on 10 June 1639 and died five days later, on 15 June 1639, at Somba Opu. ^{2 3}

Both articles document his conversion to Islam and his establishment of it as the state religion; the Indonesian infobox records his religion as "Animism, then Islam". No source read names a branch or a legal school for him, and his record keeps his faith unattributed beyond the documented conversion. ^{1 2 3}