{
  "id": 16685872,
  "title": "Kedah: The ancient Malay kingdom challenges the conventional narrative of Malayan history",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/27/kedah-the-ancient-malay-kingdom-challenges-the-conventional-narrative",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-27T00:03:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Vibes",
    "slug": "the-vibes",
    "url": "https://www.thevibes.com/articles/news/128818/kedah-the-ancient-malay-kingdom-challenges-the-conventional-narrative-of-malayan-history"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Murray Hunter MALAY history has long been taught as beginning with the Melaka Sultanate around 1400 CE, with a strong emphasis on Malay and Islamic development on the peninsula. This framework has aligned conveniently with political narratives since ...",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}