Hikayat Patani

The Hikayat Patani (حكاية ڤتني), meaning "story of Pattani", is a semi-legendary set of tales that chronicle the history of the Patani Kingdom, now a southern province of Thailand.

These stories date to as early as the late 15th century but were most likely first recorded at various times between 1690 and 1730 by as many as six different authors (the sections outlined below were first established by linguist Andries Teeuw and historian David K. Wyatt) and written in the Jawi alphabet.

The stories survive in a number of original manuscripts, the earliest transcribed by Munshi Abdullah in 1839 and held in the Library of Congress.

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