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Which 17th-century Bugis-Malay historical work by Raja Ali Haji, chronicling the Johor-Riau Sultanate and the rise of the Bugis aristocracy, is the most important Malay historiographical text after the Sejarah Melayu?

'Tuhfat al-Nafis' (The Precious Gift) covers Malay history from the fall of Malacca in 1511 through the establishment of the Bugis-ruled Johor-Riau Sultanate, and was written between 1865 and 1885.

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