Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature

Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis

Majid Daneshgar author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Publishing:30th Apr '25

£125.00

This title is due to be published on 30th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature cover

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-Majlis, or Pearl of Gatherings a classical Islamic text produced by Sayf Zafar (late thirteenthmid-fourteenth centuries CE), a writer and scholar of Central Asian background, during the Delhi Sultanate.

The book illustrates how the Durr al-Majlis 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.

ISBN: 9781399537575

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664 pages