Which 15th-century sultan, considered the founder of the Malacca Sultanate and a key figure in the Islamisation of the Malay Peninsula, was born in Palembang and named Parameswara before his conversion?

• A Sultan Mansur Shah
• B Iskandar Shah ✓
• C Sultan Alauddin Riayat Shah
• D Sultan Muzaffar Shah

Parameswara, a Srivijayan prince, founded Malacca around 1400 and married a Muslim princess from Pasai, converting to Islam and adopting the name Iskandar Shah, laying the foundations of the first great Malay-Muslim empire.