Full name
Tengku Ismail Nasirudddin Shah ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin III (at birth) Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III (as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong) Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Zainal Abdin III (as the Sultan of Terengganu)

House

Bendahara

Father

Sultan Zainal Abidin III

Mother

Cik Maimuna binti Abdullah

Religion

Sunni Islam

Full name
Tengku Ismail Nasirudddin Shah ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin III (at birth) Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III (as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong) Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah Ibni Al-Marhum Sultan Zainal Abdin III (as the Sultan of Terengganu)

Tengku Ismail Nasirudddin Shah ibni Sultan Zainal Abidin III (at birth)

Tuanku Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III (as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong)

Almarhum Sultan Sir Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III KCMG (24 January 1907 – 20 September 1979) was the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (roughly equivalent to King) of Malaysia, and the fifteenth Sultan of Terengganu.

The date of his birth has been given as either 16 March 1906 or as 24 January 1907, the latter being the one more often used. Born in Kuala Terengganu, he was the fifth, but third surviving, son of Sultan Zainal Abidin III ibni Almarhum Sultan Ahmad II (reigned 1881–1918). His mother was a Thai Muslim convert, Cik Maimuna binti Abdullah, who died in 1918.

Educated at the Kuala Terengganu Malay School, he then went to the Malay College. In 1929, he entered the Terengganu administrative service. In 1934, he was appointed Assistant Collector of Land Revenue in Kuala Terengganu.

In 1935, he became aide-de-camp to his elder half brother Sultan Sulaiman, accompanying him to the coronation of King George VI on 12 May 1937. In 1939, he became Registrar of the High Court and the Court of Appeal. He also served as the Land Court Registrar. In 1940, he was appointed a minister of the Terengganu state cabinet, having been made Tengku Paduka Raja. In 1941, he became First Class Magistrate and was promoted Terengganu State Secretary on 15 November 1941.

Sultan Sulaiman Badrul Alam Shah of Terengganu died on 25 September 1942 of blood poisoning. The Japanese Military Administration, which occupied Malaya at that time, proclaimed his son as the fourteenth Sultan of Terengganu bearing the title Sultan Ali Shah. On 18 October 1943, the Thai government under prime minister Field Marshal Plaek Pibulsonggram took over the administration of Terengganu from the Japanese and continued to recognise Sultan Ali Shah.

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