Bima is a region that has been attracting researchers? attention, which should notbe surprising because it has always been a multicultural region. Its history reveals that Bimawas one of the sailing routes, especially of the Malay Muslim traders, sailing from the directionof East Java. Bima then became a center of the Islamic rule in the eastern Nusantara. Thispaper discusses a brief history of how Bima became a center of Islamic rule that was stronglyinfluenced by the Malays.