Historical Milestones of the Development of Islam in Buton, Indonesia

In the Islamic world of Indonesian archipelago even in the Southeast Asia region, Buton was a sultanate whose development cannot be separated from the network of Islamic transmission in the region. As an Islamic kingdom, the historical milestones of the development of Islam in Buton took place in three phases, namely the phase of the formation of the Buton Sultanate since the mid-16th century, the phase of adapting Islamic values, especially the teachings of Sufism in Buton's constitutional system since the first quarter of the 17th century, and the phase of disseminating Islamic thought to society through Islamic literature. The last phase took place since the 17th century and reached its peak in the 19th century. The Buton Sultanate ended in the mid-20th century.