Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 the Near and Middle East, 175)

"This groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts. It offers new perspectives on intellectual interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the development of Islam and especially Sufism in the region, the relationship between the Arabic and Malay literary traditions, and the manuscript culture of the Indian Ocean world. It brings to light a large number of hitherto unknown texts produced at or for the courts of Southeast Asia, and examines the role of royal patronage in supporting Arabic literary production in Southeast Asia"-- Provided by publisher Contents Acknowledgements Note on Transliteration and Dates Figures Abbreviations 1 Introduction 2 Islam and Arabic Textual Culture in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean World 1 The Diffusion of Arabic and Islam in the Eastern Indian Ocean 2 Political and Religious Transformations in the Sixteenth Century 3 Seventeenth Century Transformations and the Centrality of the Hijaz 3 Arabic in Aceh and the Wujūdī Debates 1 The Appearance of the Wujūdiyya in Aceh 2 Shams al-Dīn al-Sumāṭrāʾī and the First Arabic Literature from Sumatra 3 Nūr al-Dīn al-Rānīrī and the Response to Hamzah and Shams al-Dīn 4 ʿAbd al-Ra‌ʾūf al-Singkilī, the Pupil of al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī 5 The Acehnese wujūdī Debates in the Ḥijāz 4 The Banten Mission to Mecca and the Works of Ibn ʿAllān 1 Ibn ʿAllān and the Circumstances of the Commentaries’ Composition 2 Al-Mawāhib al-Rabbāniyya 2.1 First Problem (pp. 6–51) 2.2 Second Problem (pp. 52–75) 2.3 Third Problem (pp. 75–84) 2.4 Fourth Problem (pp. 84–105) 2.5 Fifth Problem (pp. 105–113) 2.6 Sixth Problem (pp. 113–119) 2.7 Seventh Problem (pp. 120–136) 2.8 Eighth Problem (pp. 136–142) 2.9 Ninth Problem (pp. 142–148) 2.10 Tenth Problem (pp. 148–157) 3 Politics and Religion in al-Mawāhib al-Rabbāniyya 5 Arabic Texts and Court Sufism between the Hijaz and Sulawesi: Yūsuf al-Maqāṣīrī and His Followers 1 The Life and Intellectual Formation of Shaykh Yūsuf al-Maqāṣīrī 2 Al-Maqāṣīrī’s Works and their Manuscripts 3 Yūsuf al-Maqāṣīrī’s Writings on Sufism and Sultanic Power 4 The Qurrat al-ʿAyn 5 The Disciples of al-Maqāṣīrī in Sulawesi 6 Arabic Literary Culture in Eighteenth-Century Sumatra and Java 1 Arabic Literary Culture in Eighteenth Century Palembang and the Works of ʿAbd al-Ṣamad al-Palimbānī 2 ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Qahhār and His Middle Eastern Teachers 3 ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Qahhār’s Life 4 The Formation of an Intellectual Network: ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Qahhār’s Teachers 5 ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Qahhār’s Personal Library 6 ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Qahhār and the Rifaʿiyya at the Court of Banten 7 ʿAbdallāh b. ʿAbd al-Qahhār’s Literary Works 7 The Library of the Sultans of Banten 1 The Survival of the Library in Colonial Times 2 Practical Texts: Language, Law, uṣūl al-dīn, Credal and Devotional Texts 3 Sufism and the Court 4 Occult Manuscripts 5 The Origins of the Texts and Manuscripts 6 Locally Produced Manuscripts 7 The Languages of the Library and its Contents in Comparative Perspective Appendix 8 Arabic Epistolography in Southeast Asia 1 Royal Arabic Epistolography from North Sumatra, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries 2 The Arabic Epistolography of the Banten Sultanate 3 Eighteenth Century Correspondence 4 Non-royal Correspondence Conclusion Appendix 1: Arabic Texts Written in Southeast Asia or Composed for Southeast Asian Audiences, Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries Appendix 2: Manuscripts Owned by the Royal Family of Banten Appendix 3: Arabic Letters from the Banten Sultanate of the Seventeenth century Bibliography Index of Works General Index A study of the Arabic literature produced in Southeast Asia and the Arabic texts that circulated there during the early modern period, this book offers new insights both into the Arabic literary heritage and into the relationships between Southeast Asia and the Middle East.