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Islam translated : literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
- Title
- Islam translated : literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia / Ronit Ricci.
- Author
- Ricci, Ronit.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 313 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Uniform Title
- South Asia across the disciplines.
- Subject
- 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
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- An Arabic cosmopolis? -- Translation -- On "translation" and its untranslatability -- The Book of Samud: a Javanese literary tradition -- The Tamil Ayira Macala: 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 : representations of Abdullah Ibnu Salam and the prophet in the Book of One Thousand Questions -- Conclusion -- The Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-835
- ISBN
- 9780226710884 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0226710882 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2010041701
- OCLC
- YBP 2010041701
- Author
- Ricci, Ronit.
- Title
- Islam translated : literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia / Ronit Ricci.
- Imprint
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Series
- South Asia across the disciplinesSouth Asia across the disciplines.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-835