This paper discusses practices of translating the Qur'an into Javanese in the Indonesian
post-independence era. Focusing on works that emerged in pedagogical contexts, it …

The article explores the involvement of bilingual texts comprising a source and its interlinear
translation in Islamic educational practices in 19th-and 20th-century Sumatra. Such texts …

This article investigates how Arabic texts reached multilingual audiences in North India in
the eighteenth century. Drawing on a remarkable treatise on translating the Qur'an into …

This article examines the 16th-17th century Malay poet Hamzah Fansuri as a figure at the
threshold between not only two religious traditions, but also two linguistic worlds. Hamzah …

Through a case study of a bilingual manuscript found in the collection of Christiaan Snouck
Hurgronje (1857-1936) in Leiden, the article explores some aspects of the practice of …

Qur'an translation was an important element of the daʿwa activities of reformist Muslims in
West Java at the beginning of the twentieth century, as is reflected in the publication of the …

Added in Translation: Keywords for the Study of Javanese Islamic Texts in: Philological
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The article explores five Maulid Syaraf al-Anām ('The birth of the best of mankind')
manuscripts produced in the Indonesian-Malay world. The five manuscripts all include the …

It is often said that the Shafiʿi school of law was the main source of the Malay-Indonesian
Islamic legal tradition and codes during the last couple of centuries. However, one may …

In his insightful essay,“Silence Across Languages,”(1995) AL Becker suggested that every
language consists of a particular balance between speech and silence: between what can …