Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies

A Festschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-52937-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 20, 386 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 740 g

Reihe: Texts and Studies on the Qur'an

This volume is a collection of essays on transregional aspects of Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic Studies, based on Peter G. Riddell’s broad interest and expertise. Particular attention is paid to rare manuscripts, unique inscriptions, Qur'an commentaries and translations, textbooks, and personal and public archives. This book invites readers to reconstruct the ways in which Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic studies have been structured.

Contributors are Khairudin Aljunied, Majid Daneshgar, R. Michael Feener, Annabel Teh Gallop, Mulaika Hijjas, Andrew Peacock, Johanna Pink, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Michael Laffan, Han Hsien Liew, Julian Millie, Ervan Nurtawab, Masykur Syafruddin, Edwin P. Wieringa and Farouk Yahya.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daneshgar, Majid

Nurtawab, Ervan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Koran, Heilige Texte & Traditionsliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Maps

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies

Majid Daneshgar and Ervan Nurtawab

Part 1 Manuscripts and Inscriptions

1 Qur?an Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British Collections

Annabel T. Gallop

2 Arabic Texts in Buton in the Light of the La Ode Zaenu Manuscript Collection

Andrew Peacock

3 A 15th-century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fansuri in Southeast Asia

Majid Daneshgar, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Masykur Syafruddin and R. Michael Feener

Part 2 Qur?anic Commentaries, Translation and Theological Concepts

4 Eight Shades of Ibn Kathir: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qur?anic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian Translations

Johanna Pink

5 An Unfaithful Translation for the Faithful: Indonesian Islamic Gatekeepers on the Free Poetic Acehnese Translation of the Qur?an by Teungku Haji Mahjiddin Jusuf (1918–1994)

Edwin P. Wieringa

6 An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsir and Tajwid: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara

Majid Daneshgar

7 Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjuman al-Mustafid’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of God

Han Hsien Liew

8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/A??ab al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia

Farouk Yahya

Part 3 Critical Reading of Identity and Culture

9 Is Jawi Islamic?

Mulaika Hijjas

10 Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic Interventions

Khairudin Aljunied

11 Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African Son

Michael Laffan

12 An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly Narratives

Julian Millie

Peter G. Riddell: Scholarly Publications

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Majid Daneshgar, Ph.D. (2013), University of Malaya, is Munby Fellow of the Cambridge University Library in association with St John’s College, University of Cambridge. His most recent monograph is Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy (OUP, 2020).

Ervan Nurtawab, Ph.D. (2018), Monash University, is Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. His most recent publication is ‘Verse Numbering System and Arabic References in Bagus Ngarpah’s Early 20th-Century Javanese Qur'an’ (2022, with R. Adi Deswijaya).