Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia - Couverture rigide

Ricci, Ronit

 
9780226710884: Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Synopsis

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines. In "Islam Translated", Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions - from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries - as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam. "Islam Translated" will contribute to our knowledge of this region of the Muslim world that remains crucially important to world affairs.

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À propos de l?auteur

Ronit Ricci is a lecturer in the School of Culture, History, and Language at the Australian National University.

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9780226380537: Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  022638053X ISBN 13 :  9780226380537
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2016
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