Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies

Majid Daneshgar, Ph.D. (2013), University of Malaya, is Munby Fellow of the Cambridge University Library in association with St John’s College, University of Cambridge. His most recent monograph is Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy (OUP, 2020). Ervan Nurtawab, Ph.D. (2018), Monash University, is Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. His most recent publication is ‘Verse Numbering System and Arabic References in Bagus Ngarpah’s Early 20th-Century Javanese Qurʾan’ (2022, with R. Adi Deswijaya).

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Introduction: Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies

 Majid Daneshgar and Ervan Nurtawab



Part 1 Manuscripts and Inscriptions



1 Qurʾān Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British Collections

 Annabel T. Gallop



2 Arabic Texts in Buton in the Light of the La Ode Zaenu Manuscript Collection

 Andrew Peacock



3 A 15th-century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fansuri in Southeast Asia

 Majid Daneshgar, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Masykur Syafruddin and R. Michael Feener



Part 2 Qurʾānic Commentaries, Translation and Theological Concepts



4 Eight Shades of Ibn Kathīr: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qurʾānic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian Translations

 Johanna Pink



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)

 Edwin P. Wieringa



6 An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara

 Majid Daneshgar



7 Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjumān al-Mustafīd’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of God

 Han Hsien Liew



8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia

 Farouk Yahya



Part 3 Critical Reading of Identity and Culture



9 Is Jawi Islamic?

 Mulaika Hijjas



10 Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic Interventions

 Khairudin Aljunied



11 Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African Son

 Michael Laffan



12 An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly Narratives

 Julian Millie



Peter G. Riddell: Scholarly Publications

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