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

Ricci, Ronit

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ISBN 10: 022638053X ISBN 13: 9780226380537

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2016

Riassunto

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 forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 022638053X
• ISBN 13: 9780226380537
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile