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Islam translated : literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of south and southeast Asia /

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stret...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ricci, Ronit
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Series:South Asia across the disciplines.
Subjects:
Book of one thousand questions > Translations > History and criticism.
Islamic literature > Southeast Asia > Translations > History and criticism.
Kitāb masāʼil ʻAbd Allāh ibn Salām lil-Nabī.
Serat Samud.
Āyira macalā.
Hikayat seribu masalah.
Southeast Asian literature > Islamic influences.
Muslim converts from Judaism > Early works to 1800 > Translations > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • Arabic cosmopolis?
  • Translation
  • On "translation" and its untranslatability
  • The Book of Samud: a Javanese literary tradition
  • The Ayira Macala: Tamil questions and marvels
  • Seribu Masalah: the Malay Book of One Thousand Questions
  • Conversion
  • Cosmopolitan in translation: Arabic's distant travels
  • Conversion to Islam and the Book of One Thousand Questions
  • A Jew on Java, a model Malay rabbi, and a Tamil Torah scholar
  • The Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia.