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Islam translated literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

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 connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and cultu...

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Main Author: Ricci, Ronit (Author)
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
Kitāb masāʼil ʻAbd Allāh ibn Salām lil-Nabī
Serat Samud
Āyira macalā
Hikayat seribu masalah
Islamic literature > Southeast Asia > Translations > History and criticism
Southeast Asian literature > Islamic influences
Muslim converts from Judaism > Early works to 1800 > Translations > History and criticism
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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.

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