Islam translated
Subtitle: literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
By: Ronit Ricci
Series: South Asia across the disciplines; South Asia across the disciplines
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780226710884
Subjects: Islamic literature; Āyira macalā; Serat Samud; Book of one thousand questions; Islamic influences; Muslim converts from Judaism; Southeast Asian literature; Kitāb masāʼil ʻAbd Allāh ibn Salām lil-Nabī; History and criticism; Translations; Early works to 1800; Hikayat seribu masalah
Description: xvi, 313 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Arabic cosmopolis?; title: Translation; title: On "translation" and its untranslatability; title: The Book of Samud: a Javanese literary tradition; title: The Ayira Macala: Tamil questions and marvels; title: Seribu Masalah: the Malay Book of One Thousand Questions; title: Conversion; title: Cosmopolitan in translation: Arabic's distant travels; title: Conversion to Islam and the Book of One Thousand Questions; title: A Jew on Java, a model Malay rabbi, and a Tamil Torah scholar; title: The Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia.