Sultan of Johor
Monarchy
Provincial/State
Incumbent: Sultan Iskandar
Style:	His Royal Highness
First monarch:	Alauddin Riayat Shah II
Formation:	1528

This article concerns the sultan of Johor. For the sultanate, see Sultanate of Johor.

Sultan of Johor is a hereditary seat and the nominal ruler of the Malaysian state of Johor. In the past, the sultan held absolute power over the state and was advised by a bendahara. Nowadays, the role of bendahara has been taken over by a more powerful chief minister with the sultan's office being reduced to a figurehead function.

The first sultan of Johor was Alauddin Riayat Shah II. He was the son of the last sultan of Malacca, Sultan Mahmud Shah. The scion of the Sultanate of Malacca in Johor ended with the death of Sultan Mahmud Shah II in 1699 and throne was taken over by Sultan Abdul Jalil IV. Abdul Jalil IV was a bendahara before the death of the sultan.

Though Johor has been ruled over by at least 20 sultans, the first sultan of modern Johor (Temenggong dynasty)^[1] was Sultan Abu Bakar who reigned from 1862 to 1895. He was the first person from the temenggung family to become the sultan in Johor's history. His father, Temenggung Ibrahim managed to consolidate enough power to disfranchise Sultan Ali who died in 1877.

The office of sultan is currently being held by Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Ismail Al-Khalidi, a great-grandson of Sultan Abu Bakar.

Contents 1 List of office bearers 2 See also 3 Notes 4 References

[edit] List of office bearers

Sultans of Johor	Reign
Malacca-Johor Dynasty
Alauddin Riayat Shah II	1528 - 1564
Muzaffar Shah II	1564 - 1570
Abdul Jalil Shah I	1570 - 1571
Ali Jalla Abdul Jalil Shah II	1571 - 1597
Alauddin Riayat Shah III	1597 - 1615
Abdullah Ma'ayat Shah	1615 - 1623
Abdul Jalil Shah III	1623 - 1677
Ibrahim Shah	1677 - 1685
Mahmud Shah II	1685 - 1699
Bendahara Dynasty
Abdul Jalil IV (Bendahara Abdul Jalil)	1699 - 1720
Malacca-Johor Dynasty (descent)
Abdul Jalil Rahmat Shah (Raja Kecil)	1718 - 1722
Bendahara Dynasty
Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah	1722 - 1760
Abdul Jalil Muazzam Shah	1760 - 1761
Ahmad Riayat Shah	1761 - 1761
Mahmud Shah III	1761 - 1812
Abdul Rahman Muazzam Shah	1812 - 1819
Hussein Shah (Tengku Long)	1819 - 1835
Ali	1835 - 1877
Temenggong Dynasty
Raja Temenggung Tun Ibrahim	1855 - 1862
Abu Bakar	1862 - 1895
Ibrahim	1895 - 1959
Ismail	1959 - 1981
Mahmud Iskandar Al-Haj	1981 - current

[edit] See also

• Johor Sultanate

[edit] Notes

[edit] References

• Nesalamar Nadarajah, Johore and the Origins of British Control, 1895-1914, Arenabuku, 2000, ISBN 9679703185

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