Editing Aurangzeb (section)

====Relations with Aceh====
For decades, the Malabari [[Mappila Muslims]] which representing the Mughal empire are already patronized [[Aceh Sultanate]].<ref name="Andaya-2008">{{cite book |author1=Leonard Y. Andaya |author-link= Leonard Y. Andaya |title=Leaves of the Same Tree Trade and Ethnicity in the Straits of Melaka |date=22 January 2008 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-3189-9 |pages=121–122 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w7AqZR1ZUZgC |access-date=2 December 2023 |language=En |format=Hardcover |quote=... Aurangzeb and Dara Shukoh participated in Aceh's trade, and Aurangzeb even exchanged presents with Aceh's sultan in 1641. For two decades after the Dutch conquest of Portuguese Melaka in 1641, the VOC tried to attract trade to Melaka by the VOC tried to attract trade to Melaka by restricting Muslim trade to Aceh. Angered by}}</ref> Aurangzeb, and his brother, Dara Shikoh, participated with Aceh trade and Aurangzeb himself also exchanging presents with the Sultan of Aceh in 1641.<ref name="Andaya-2008" /> In that year, it is recorded the daughter of  [[Iskandar Muda]], Sultanah Safiatuddin, has presented Aurangzeb with eight elephants.<ref>{{cite book |author1=Pius Malekandathil |title=The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India |date=2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-99745-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-WEPDQAAQBAJ |access-date=11 March 2024 |language=En |format=ebook |quote=... 1641 , his daughter , Sultanah Safiatuddin presented Aurangzeb with eight ...}}</ref>

When the VOC, or [[Dutch East India Company]] trying to disrupt the trade in Aceh to make their own Malaka trade lucrative, Aurangzeb threatened the Dutch with retaliation against any losses in Gujarat due to Dutch intervention.<ref name="Andaya-2008" /> This effort were caused due to VOC realization that Muslim tradings were damaging to the VOC.<ref name="Malekandathil-2016">{{cite book |editor1-last=Malekandathil |editor1-first=Pius |title=The Indian Ocean in the Making of Early Modern India |date=13 September 2016 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-351-99746-1 |page=154 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=viUlDwAAQBAJ |access-date=2 December 2023 |quote=... backed out and allowed Indian traders to sail to Aceh and other southern ports without restriction.74 According to S ...}}</ref> The [[Firman]] issued by Aurangzeb caused the VOC to back down and allowed Indian sailors to pass into Aceh, [[Perak]], and [[Kedah]], without any restrictions.<ref name="Andaya-2008" /><ref name="Malekandathil-2016"/><ref>{{cite book |author1=Frans Huskin |author2=Dick van der Meij |title=Reading Asia New Research in Asian Studies |date=11 October 2013 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |page=87 |isbn=978-1-136-84377-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVhUAQAAQBAJ |access-date=2 December 2023 |language=En |format=ebook |quote=... 1660s the VOC backed down and allowed Indian traders to sail to Aceh, Perak, and Kedah without restriction.ll Another important trading community in Aceh consisted of Indians from the Coromandel Coast who had been prominent in Malay ...}}</ref>