Arabic Literary Culture in Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East)
This scholarly study examines the spread of Arabic literary culture in early modern Southeast Asia through manuscripts and other little-studied texts. It brings into focus intellectual exchange with the Middle East, the development of Islam and Sufism, and the relationship between Arabic and Malay literary traditions.
Work Information
Manuscript fragments are used to rethink the reach of Arabic culture across Southeast Asia.
Published by Brill, Andrew C. S. Peacock's book traces how Arabic literary culture took shape in Southeast Asia by moving between manuscripts, court patronage, and religious thought. It offers a new perspective on the circulation of knowledge across the Indian Ocean world.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Brill
- Published
- 2024-02-07
- Pages
- 536 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.5 x 3.2 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789004548787
- ISBN-10
- 9004548785
- Price
- 36157 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/History/Asia/Southeast Asia
Winner of the 2025 Sheikh Zayed Book Award (category: Arab Culture in Other Languages) This groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts. It offers new perspectives on intellectual interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the development of Islam and especially Sufism in the region, the relationship between the Arabic and Malay literary traditions, and the manuscript culture of the Indian Ocean world. It brings to light a large number of hitherto unknown texts produced at or for the courts of Southeast Asia, and examines the role of royal patronage in supporting Arabic literary production in Southeast Asia.
A.C.S. Peacock , PhD (2003) is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Islamic History at the University of St Andrews, UK and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on both Middle Eastern and Indian Ocean history, including (with İ.H. Kadı), Ottoman-Southeast Asian Relations: Sources from the Ottoman Archives (Brill, 2020)