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 stretched from India to the Philippines. InIslam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses theBook of One Thousand Questions from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries as a means to consider connections...
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...
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 stretched from India to the Philippines. In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions--from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries--as a means to consider...
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...
Storied Island presents the rich and diverse world of texts composed on the island of Java, Indonesia. It analyses Javanese texts not studied to date, reassess texts studied by earlier generations of scholars, and broadly rethinks and remaps major dimensions of Javanese literature, inviting comparison with literary cultures from across the globe.
Storied Island presents the rich and diverse world of texts composed on the island of Java, Indonesia. It analyses Javanese texts not studied to date,...
