Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
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Durr al-Maj?lis
Durr al-Majalis
Durr al-Majlis
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Malay Muslims
Malay-Indonesian world
Persianate-Malay
Persianism
Southeast Asia
Sufism
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- ISBN 9781399537575
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2025
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book investigates lines of connection and shared literary heritage between the Persianate and Malay-Indonesian worlds over many centuries. Majid Daneshgar provides a critical and comparative study of Persianate-Malay stories, with specific focus on Durr al-Maj?lis, or Pearl of Gatherings a classical Islamic text produced by Sayf Zafar (late thirteenth mid-fourteenth centuries CE), a writer and scholar of Central Asian background, during the Delhi Sultanate.
The book illustrates how the Durr al-Maj?lis contains various legal, theological-philosophical, metaphysical, chivalrous and mystical accounts. In addition, it traces how the book travelled beyond the so-called 'Balkans-to-Bengal' borders and was copied, translated and annotated across Eastern Africa, Eastern Turkistan, Mongol-dominated China, Arabic-speaking Egypt and South East Asia. It demonstrates how this Persian collection of stories shaped the idea of Islam, Islamic teachings and stories across the Muslim World, and in the Malay-Indonesian World in particular.
Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He is the former Munby Fellow in global bibliography at Cambridge University Library in association with St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and George Grey Scholar at Auckland Libraries, New Zealand. He has frequently published on Islamic studies, orientalism, Persianate-Malay literature and manuscript studies. His main monographs are Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy (Oxford University Press, 2020), Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur’an (Routledge, 2018; Arabic translation 2023), and several co-edited volumes such as Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies (Brill, 2023), Islam and Science in the Future (Zygon, 2020), Deconstructing Islamic Studies (Ilex-Harvard University Press, 2020), Islamic Studies Today (Brill, 2017) and The Qur’an in the Malay-Indonesian World (Routledge, 2016). He was also awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Union, the Best Publication Prize 2022 (FRIAS), and nominated for the Most Inclusive Teacher Award at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2015.
