10 Facts About Chams

Chams'storians are now no longer disputing in associating the Sa Huynh culture with the ancestors of the Cham people and other Chamic-speaking groups.

Chams's eventually returned to Champa "did many good deeds in helping the sick and the poor" and "a temple was erected in her honor".

Champa and Sulu engaged in commerce with each other which resulted in merchant Chams settling in Sulu where they were known as Orang Dampuan from the 10th-13th centuries.

The Chams encountered Sunni Islam there as the Malacca Sultanate was officially Muslim since 1414.

Chams had trade and close cultural ties with the maritime kingdom of Srivijaya, and Majapahit then in the Malay Archipelago.

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Chams's father is Maulana Malik Ibrahim known as Ibrahim as-Samarkandy, and his mother is Dewi Candrawulan, a princess of Champa who's the sister of Queen Dwarawati.

Chams came to Java in 1443 CE, in order to visit his aunt Queen Dwarawati, a princess of Champa who married to Kertawijaya, the King of Majapahit Empire.

Religiously and culturally, the Chams were grouped into two major religio-cultural groups; the Balamon Chams that adhere to an indigenized form of Hinduism, and Cham Bani that adhere to an indigenized form of Shi'a Islam.

Balamon Chams adhere to the old religion of their ancestor, an indigenized form of Hinduism that thrived since the ancient era of Kingdom of Champa in 5th century AD, whereas Cham Bani are adherents of a localized version of Shi'a Islam, including a minor element of Sufism, endured with Hindu-Chamic customs as early as around the 11th–13th century.

However, a small band of Chams, who called themselves Kaum Jumaat, follow a localized adaptation of Islamic theology, according to which they pray only on Fridays and celebrate Ramadan for only three days.