Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia PDF
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Litemrure, Conversion, I 1a m and the Arabic S Cosmopolli. of South and Southeast Asia Translated Ronit Ricci Islam Translated SOUTH ASIA ACROSS TH1! DISCIPLINES A series edited by Dipesh Chakraharty, Sheldon PoUock, and Sanjay Subrtzhmanyam Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and jointly published by the University ofC alifornia Press, the University of Chicago Press, and Columbia University Press. "'he Power.fol Ephemeral· Everyday Healing South Asia Across the Disciplines is a series in an Ambiguously Islmnic Place devoted to publishing first books across a wide by Carla Bellamy (California) range of South Asian studies,including art, history, philology or textual studies, philosophy. Extre1tu POt!try: "'he South Asian MO'llemmt religion, and the interpretive social sciences. rfSimultmuous Narration Series authors all share the goal of opening by Yigal Bronner (Cohunbia) up new archives and suggesting new methods and approaches, while demonstrating that Semlarizing Islamists? Jama'at-e-Islmni South Asian scholarship can be at once deep in andjama'at-ud-Dalwa in Urban Pakistan expertise and broad in appeal by Humcira lqtidar (Chicago) "'he Social Spaa rf Language: Vernacular Culture in British Colonial PU1'ifab by Farina Mir (California) Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Idmtity in Indian InteUe.:tual History by Andrew J. Nicholson (Columbia) Islam Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Translated Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Ronit Ricci THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO AND LONDON RON IT RICCI is a lecturer in the SchoolofCulture,History, and Language at the Austial.ian National University. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESs, Chicago 60637 THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESs,Ltd.,London © 20n by The University of Chicago An rights reserved. Published 20IL Printed in the United States of America 20I9I817I615I4I3I2II 12345 ISBN -13: 9]8-0-226-71088-4 (cloth) IS BN-10: 0-226--?1088-2 (cloth) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ricci, Ronit. Islam translated: literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast kia/ Ronit Ricci. p. em.-(South Asia across the disciplines) Includes bibliographical references and ind eli:. ISBN-13: 9]8-o-226--?Io88-4(hardcover: alk. paper) ISBN-IO: o-226--71o88-2 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Book of one thousand questions--Translations-History and criticism. 2. Islamic literature-Southeast Asia Translations--History and criticism. 3· Kitab masa,l 'Abd Allah ibn Salam lil-Nabi. 4-Scrat Samud. 5· Ayira macala. 6. Hikayat seribu masal.ah. 7· Southeast Asian literature Islamic influences. 8. Muslim converts from Judaism-Early works to r8oo-Translations-History and criticism. I. Tide. II. Series: South kia across the disciplines. PJ8J:3. RS33 20II 809'·93382~ 2010041701 @This paper meets the requirements of ANSifNISO Z39-48-1992 (Permanence of Paper). For my parents Contents list oflllustrations ix Preface :xi Acknowledgments xili list ofA bbreviations xvii I Introduction: An Arabic Cosmopolis? I Part One: Translation z On "Translation" and Its Untranslatability 3I 3 The Book qfSamud: A Javanese Literary Tradition 66 4 The TamilAyira Maca/a: Qyestions and Marvels 98 5 Seribu Masalah: The Malay Book qfOne Thousand Questions IZ9 Part Two: Conversion 6 Cosmopolitan in Translation: Arabic's Distant Travels I53 7 Conversion to Islam and the Book qfOne 7housand Questions I83 8 A Jew on Java, a Model Malay Rabbi, and a Tamil Torah Scholar: Representations of Abdullah Ibnu Salam and the Prophet in the Book qfOne Thousand Questions ZI6 Part 7hree: Conclusion 9 The Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Z45 Bibliography 273 Index 299 Illustrations Maps I South and Southeast Asia xix z Known sites of the production and circulation of the Book qfOne 7housand Questions in Javanese, Malay, and Tamil between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries (with detail of South India) xx 3 Known sites of the production and circulation of the Book ifO ne 7housand Questions in Javanese, Malay, and Tamil between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries (with detail of the Indonesian-Malay Archipelago) x:xi Figures zs I SeratSamud(Javanese) z Serat Samud (Javanese, pegon script) z6 3 Kitah &rihu Masa'il (Malay,jawi script) 27 4 Ayira Maca/a (Tamil) 28
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