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Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr Al-Majalis

Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr Al-Majalis

Daneshgar, Majid

Hardcover

Series: Gibb Memorial Trust

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Asian HistoryIran History

ISBN10: 1399537571
ISBN13: 9781399537575
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 31 2025
Pages: 720
Weight: 2.95
Height: 1.50 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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-Majālis, 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-Majālis 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.

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