Tarsilah Brunei : The Early History of Brunei Up To 1432 AD / by Pehin Jawatan Dalam Seri Maharaja Dato Seri Utama Dr. Haji Awang Mohd. Jamil Al-Sufri ; Edited and Translated by Awang Haji Mohamad Amin bin Hassan

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

History is very important to a race or nation, more especially to a developing nation like Brunei. For a country to develop, it needs a proper historical setting, it needs the causes and effects, the advantages and disadvantages, and disadvantages, and the reasons for such development and its successful progress or its abrupt stoppage and disappearance. All these could only be explained from the nation's history as experienced and felt by its own people, whether from the action of its own people or as consequence of the action of others, written as it had actually happened by its own people. As more and more of the nation's history is known, a more complete and broader perspective could be obtained thus giving rise to a more lucid picture of a particular event.