Page:Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje - The Achehnese - tr. Arthur Warren Swete O'Sullivan (1906).djvu/172

 The present panglima of the XXV Mukims is called Teuku Seutia Ulama, a name which lends weight to the conjecture that an earlier



holder of the office may have distinguished himself by his legal learning. His name among the people is Teuku Siah (one of the Achehnese forms of the Arabic Shaikh) Ulama. He has occupied himself but little with the government of the district, and for a long time past the power of some of the other ulèëbalangs appears to have put that of their nominal chief in the shade. The true potentates of this sagi are Teuku Nèʾ Peureuba Wangsa, chief of the IX Mukims, Teuku Nèʾ Raja Muda Seutia, ulèëbalang of the Mukim Meuraʾsa (and earlier