Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies : A Festschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell

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, Qurʾān 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. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgments ‎Figures and Maps ‎Figures ‎Maps ‎Notes on Contributors ‎Introduction. Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies (Daneshgar and Nurtawab) ‎Part 1. Manuscripts and Inscriptions ‎Chapter 1. Qurʾān Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British Collections (Gallop) ‎Chapter 2. The Arabic Manuscripts of the La Ode Zaenu Collection, Buton (Peacock) ‎Chapter 3. A 15th-Century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fanṣūrī in Southeast Asia (Daneshgar, Kuswanta, Syafruddin and Feener) ‎Part 2. Qurʾānic Commentaries, Translations and Theological Concepts ‎Chapter 4. Eight Shades of Ibn Kathīr: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qurʾānic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian Translations (Pink) ‎Chapter 5. An Unfaithful Translation for the Faithful: Indonesian Islamic Gatekeepers on the Free Poetic Acehnese Translation of the Qurʾān by Teungku Haji Mahjiddin Jusuf (1918–1994) (Wieringa) ‎Chapter 6. An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara (Daneshgar) ‎Chapter 7. Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjumān al-Mustafīd’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of God (Liew) ‎Chapter 8. Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia (Yahya) ‎Part 3. Critical Reading of Identity and Culture ‎Chapter 9. Is Jawi Islamic? (Hijjas) ‎Chapter 10. Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic Interventions (Aljunied) ‎Chapter 11. Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African Son (Laffan) ‎Chapter 12. An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly Narratives (Millie) ‎Peter G. Riddell: Scholarly Publications ‎Index "This volume pays particular attention to rare manuscripts, unique inscriptions, Quran commentaries and translations, textbooks and personal and public archives in the Malay-Indonesian World. This book invites readers to reconstruct the ways in which Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic studies has structured"-- Provided by publisher