Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies

Majid Daneshgar, Ph.D. (2013), University of Malaya, is Munby Fellow of the Cambridge University Library in association with St John’s College, University of Cambridge. His most recent monograph is Studying the Qur’an in the Muslim Academy (OUP, 2020).Ervan Nurtawab, Ph.D. (2018), Monash University, is Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg, Germany. His most recent publication is ‘Verse Numbering System and Arabic References in Bagus Ngarpah’s Early 20th-Century Javanese Qurʾan’ (2022, with R. Adi Deswijaya).

• AcknowledgementsList of Figures and MapsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic StudiesMajid Daneshgar and Ervan NurtawabPart 1 Manuscripts and Inscriptions1 Qurʾān Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British CollectionsAnnabel T. Gallop2 Arabic Texts in Buton in the Light of the La Ode Zaenu Manuscript CollectionAndrew Peacock3 A 15th-century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fansuri in Southeast AsiaMajid Daneshgar, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Masykur Syafruddin and R. Michael FeenerPart 2 Qurʾānic Commentaries, Translation and Theological Concepts4 Eight Shades of Ibn Kathīr: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qurʾānic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian TranslationsJohanna Pink5 An Unfaithful Translation for the Faithful: Indonesian Islamic Gatekeepers on the Free Poetic Acehnese Translation of the Qurʾān by Teungku Haji Mahjiddin Jusuf (1918–1994)Edwin P. Wieringa6 An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in NusantaraMajid Daneshgar7 Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjumān al-Mustafīd’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of GodHan Hsien Liew8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast AsiaFarouk YahyaPart 3 Critical Reading of Identity and Culture9 Is Jawi Islamic?Mulaika Hijjas10 Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic InterventionsKhairudin Aljunied11 Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African SonMichael Laffan12 An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly NarrativesJulian MilliePeter G. Riddell: Scholarly PublicationsIndex