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Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World

Name: Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World – Kawah Buku
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Edited by JAN VAN DER PUTTEN and MARY KILCLINE CODY

NUS Press (First printing, 2009)
428 pages including Bibliography and Index

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ISBN: 9789971694548 Product ID: 3027 Subjects: Malay Studies, Literary Criticism, Social and Cultural, Sociology and Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies Sub-subjects: intellectual life, Islamic learning and scholarship, Malay Peninsula, Malays, Southeast Asia

Honouring the spirit of Ian Proudfoot’s scholarship, Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World comprises original and provocative essays that reveal how analyses of offbeat texts can produce fascinating insights into the past. In one absorbing volume, a multi-disciplinary cohort of international academics presents intriguing, amusing and thought-provoking perspectives on calendars, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, rituals, theatre, art, advertising, Islamic manuscripts, gardens and erotic literature. Linked by themes of transformations in time, texts and technologies, the essays apply the approaches of history, anthropology, art history, archaeology, linguistics, philology, literary criticism, and textual analysis to a marvellous array of cultural expressions from the Malay World, a huge geographical area spanning Peninsular and Insular Southeast Asia, with excursions into West, South, and East Asia as well as the “West”. In this volume, mousedeers and beached whales, giant lizards, gaseous windbags and marginal Islamic scholars, Christian priests and Japanese aristocrats all roam around freely—a forceful demonstration of the futility of essentialising the cultural, literary and historical riches of the Malay World.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. Significant Time, Myths and Power in the Javanese Calendar
– Ann Kumar

2. How Surakarta was Founded on the Wrong Day
– M. C. Ricklefs

3. Shining Stones: The King and the Ascetic in Indonesia
– John N. Miksic

4. An Excursion to Java’s Get-Rich-Quick Tree
– George Quinn

5. Chasing the Dragon: An Early Expedition to Komodo Island
– Timothy P. Barnard

6. Lord Hunting Tiger and Malay Learning in Japan Before the War
– Mikihiro Moriyama

7. Martyr to Science or Gaseous Windbag of Colossal Ignorance?
– Amin Sweeney

8. A Paler Shade of White
– Mary Kilcline Cody

9. The Perils of Propaganda
– Paul H. Kratoska

10. Wanted
– Jan van der Putten

11. In Search of Fatimah
– Wendy Mukherjee

12. When is a Jawi Jawi? A Short Note on Pieter Soury’s “Maldin” and his Minang Student “Sayf al-Riyjal”
– Michael Laffan

13. Reflections on the Mysticism of Shams al-Din al-Samatra’i (1550?-1630)
– A. H. Johns

14. A Life Unrecognised: Muhammad Yusuf Ahmad and Majalah Guru
– Mark Emmanuel

15. Fr Pécot and the Earliest Catholic Imprints in Malay
– Anthony Reid

16. Some Light on Ahmad al-Fatani’s Nur al-mubin (“The Clear Light’)
– Edwin Wieringa

17. Ritual Recitation of Abdul Qadir’s Karamatamat: A Social History
– Julian Millie

18. Singing the Text: On-Air Textual Interpretation in Bali
– Helen Creese

19. Faust does Nusantara
– Holger Warnk

20. Finding Love in Hikayat Raja Kulawandu
– Muhammad Haji Salleh

21. The Thread of Eroticism in Faridah Hanom, An Early Malay Novel by Syed Sheikh Al-Hadi
– Christine Campbell

22. Pedal Power in Southeast Asia
– Kees van Dijk

23. The Lament of an Old Man: Sayyid ‘Uthman (1822-1914) of Batavia on Cars
– Nico J. G. Kaptein

24. Some Thoughts on Islamic Manuscripts from the Southern Philippines and the Jawi Tradition
– E. Ulrich Kratz

25. To Rescue a Beached Whale: The Translation of Matthes’ Bugis Dictionary
– Campbell Macknight

26. Was the Mousedeer Peranakan? In Search of Chinese Islamic Influences on Malay Manuscript Art
– Annabel Teh Gallop

27. Gardens of Knowledge: From Bustan to Taman
– Virginia Hooker

Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Weight	0.615 kg
Dimensions	22.9 × 15.3 × 1 cm
Author(s)	Amin Sweeney, Ann Kumar, Annabel Teh Gallop, Anthony Hearle Johns, Anthony Reid, Campbell Macknight, Christine Campbell, E Ulrich Kratz, Edwin Paul Wieringa, George Quinn, Helen Creese, Holger Warnk, Jan van der Putten, John Norman Miksic, Julian Millie, Kees van Dijk, Mark Emmanuel, Mary Kilcline Cody, Merle Calvin Ricklefs, Michael Francis Laffan, Michael Laffan, Mikihiro Moriyama, Muhammad Haji Salleh, Nico J. G. Kaptein, Paul H. Kratoska, Timothy P. Barnard, Virginia Matheson Hooker, Wendy Mukherjee
Format	Paperback
Language	English
Publisher	National University of Singapore Press
Year Published	2009