… the Arabic cosmopolis, its literary networks, and the processes of translation and conversion
to Islam within it, through the example of a textual tradition, the Book of One Thousand Ques…

… ’s notion of the Sanskrit icosmopolisw and the Southeast Asianist and linguist AL Becker’s …
to Islam in South and Southeast Asia, and in the formation of an Arabic/Islamic cosmopolis in …

… book with the potential to transform contemporary debates framing our perceptions of Islamic
conversion from south … The Book of One Thousand Questions, a tale of conversion from …

… in Translation," explores how Arabic traveled to and, more important, impacted the literary
cultures of Muslim South and Southeast Asia and … It explains why certain Arabic terms such as …

… slippage between the Arabic cosmopolis and descriptions of it as Islamic or “Islamic-Arabic”
(p. 97). … the specifically Islamic import of an Arabic term. Now, a major and viable point of the …

… of the study into the larger context of an Arabic cosmopolis in the eastern Indian Ocean. … of
Islam and the impact of the Arabic cosmopolis that in turn transformed literary production in the …

… of what she terms the “Arabic Cosmopolis” in South and Southeast Asia, thus tracing a …
language and literature that has hitherto not been examined through the lens of translation. …

… Asian literary and cultural studies, the comparative study of South and Southeast Asia
connections, and our understanding of the processes through which Islam entered the spheres of …

… for considering how translation and conversion have been historically … Islamic, Arabicized
texts helped shape and maintain an Arabic cosmopolitan sphere in South and Southeast Asia…

… book with the potential to transform contemporary debates framing our perceptions of Islamic
conversion from south … The Book of One Thousand Questions, a tale of conversion from …