Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies: A Festschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell

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by  Majid Daneshgar, Ervan Nurtawab

Malay-IndonesianIslamicStudies
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Texts and Studies
on the Qurʾān
EditorialBoard
GerhardBöwering(YaleUniversity)
BilalOrfali(AmericanUniversityofBeirut)
DevinStewart(EmoryUniversity)
volume 20
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PeterG.Riddell(Melbourne2017;FamilyCollection)
لدیرݢرتیڤ
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Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies
A Festschrift in Honor of Peter G. Riddell
Editedby
MajidDaneshgar
ErvanNurtawab
leiden | boston
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
ListofFiguresandMaps x
NotesonContributors xv
Introduction:PeterG.Riddell’sContributiontoMalay-Indonesian
IslamicStudies 1
MajidDaneshgarandErvanNurtawab
part 1
ManuscriptsandInscriptions
1 QurʾānManuscriptsfromSoutheastAsiainBritishCollections 9
AnnabelTehGallop
2 TheArabicManuscriptsoftheLaOdeZaenuCollection,Buton 51
A.C.S.Peacock
3 A15th-CenturyPersianInscriptionfromBireuen,Aceh:AnEarly‘Flash’
ofSufismbeforeFanṣūrīinSoutheastAsia 86
MajidDaneshgar,GregoriusDwiKuswanta,MasykurSyafruddin
andR.MichaelFeener
part 2
QurʾānicCommentaries,TranslationsandTheologicalConcepts
4 EightShadesofIbnKathīr:TheAfterlivesofaPremodernQurʾānic
CommentaryinContemporaryIndonesianTranslations 109
JohannaPink
5 AnUnfaithfulTranslationfortheFaithful:IndonesianIslamic
GatekeepersontheFreePoeticAcehneseTranslationoftheQurʾānby
TeungkuHajiMahjiddinJusuf(1918–1994) 134
EdwinP.Wieringa
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viii contents
6 AnOldMalayManuscriptofTafsīrandTajwīd:FormativeIslamic
SciencesinNusantara 163
MajidDaneshgar
7 NavigatingAnthropomorphisminMalayIslam:Tarjumānal-Mustafīd’s
TreatmentoftheBodilyAttributesofGod 182
HanHsienLiew
8 TalismanswiththeNamesoftheSevenSleepersofEphesus/Aṣḥāb
al-Kahf inMuslimSoutheastAsia 209
FaroukYahya
part 3
CriticalReadingof IdentityandCulture
9 IsJawiIslamic? 269
MulaikaHijjas
10 ReasonandRationalityinTwentieth-CenturySoutheastAsia:Harun
Nasution’sDynamicInterventions 294
KhairudinAljunied
11 PlaythingsofDestiny:RadenMasKareta,HisJavaneseFatherand
AfricanSon 327
MichaelLaffan
12 AnIslamicParatheater:RitualEmbodimentofSaintlyNarratives 349
JulianMillie
PeterG.Riddell:ScholarlyPublications 367
Index 378
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Acknowledgments
Wehaveenjoyedworkingwithalargenumberof peoplewhohelpedusturn
vision into reality, thanking a prominent scholar of Islamic Studies whose
workssignificantlychangedthediscourseandwidelyaffectedalargenumber
ofyoungerscholars.
First,ourthanksgotothemanyfriendsandcolleagueswhohavecontributed
tothevision-formingprocessthroughcommentsandsuggestionsoverthepast
year.Wethank,too,JaneClarkforherdetailedeye,undertakingimprovements
totheEnglish-languagestructureandstyleof someof thecontributions.We
alsothanktheanonymousreviewersfortheirhelpfulcomments.Peterwasnot
awareofthisFestschrift...Oursurpriseplanwentverywellandthiswouldnot
havebeenpossiblewithoutthekindsupportofhisfamily,especiallyhiswife,
Anna, and our Melbourne-based friend, Zoheir Mirkarimi, who sent out the
surprisepackage!
WorkingwiththeBrillteamhasbeenapleasurefromthebeginning.They
strucktheperfectbalancebetweenleavingustogetonwiththejobandpro-
vidingdiversemeansofsupport.WeareespeciallygratefultoNienkeBrienen-
Moolenaar,AssociateEditorofMiddleEastandIslam,NicolettevanderHoek,
AcquisitionsEditorforMiddleEastandIslamicStudies,andBartNijsten,our
ProductionEditor.WearenolessgratefultoProfessorsGerhardBöwering,Bilal
Orfali,andDevinStewart,EditorsoftheBrillTextsandStudiesontheQurʾān
towhichthisvolumebelongs.
Lastandbynomeansleast,wearegreatlyindebtedtoourwives,children
andfamilies,whoboreourabsenceforpurposesofeditingwithpatienceand
goodhumour.
Theeditors
June2022
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Figures and Maps
Figures
1.1 BeginningofSūratal-Nisāʾin Juzʾ4oftheQurʾān;notetheshadowingof
bowlsofletterswithredink.JohnRylandsLibrary,Arabicms54(821) 14
1.2 Titlepageofthemanuscript,identifying Juzʾ4inthepanelatthetop,witha
benedictionfortheprophetbelow.JohnRylandsLibrary,Arabicms54
(821) 15
1.3 Finalpageofthemanuscript,endingwiththeṢadaqAllāhprayerinsetin
redruledframes.JohnRylandsLibrary,Arabicms54(821) 16
1.4 SulawesistyleQurʾān,dated1677,endpageswiththeṢadaqAllāhprayerat
toprightinthesameinsetframesasintheJohnRylandsmanuscript.
NationalLibraryofMalaysia,mss4333 17
1.5 FinalpageoftheSulawesistyleQurʾāndated1740,copiedbyIbrahīmfrom
Zabīd,withtheṢadaqAllāhprayerinsetinruledframes.SangNilaUtama
Museum,Pekanbaru,Riau,07.001.2007 18
1.6 Finalpagesinamanuscriptof Juzʾ25,probablyaroyalmanuscriptfrom
Banten,18thcentury,withtheṢadaqAllāhprayerontheleft-handpage.
LeidenUniversityLibrary,Cod.Or.5678 19
1.7 Qurʾānpart,containing Juzʾ19–20.soasms12096,ff.1v–2r 21
1.8 Labelinscribed‘ExtractsfromtheKoranemployedinadministeringoaths’,
onthefrontcoverstainedwithbetel-juice.soasms12096,frontcover 22
1.9 Qurʾān,Sūratal-Baqarah,lackingfirstpagewithSūratal-Fātiḥa.soas
ms12176,f.1r 23
1.10 Qurʾān,withredroundelsforversemarkers,andredinkshadowingbetween
thehorizontallinesoftheletterkāf.soasms12176,ff.75v–76r 24
1.11 FinalpagesoftheQurʾān,withcolophon.soasms12176,ff.274v–275r 25
1.12 ColophonoftheQurʾān,datedmid-Jumādilākhir993(mid-June1585).soas
ms12176,f.275r(detail) 26
1.13 Sūratal-Fātiḥa,thedamagedfirstpageoftheQurʾān.RoyalAsiaticSociety,
Arabic4 29
1.14 Sūratal-Baqarah,withtheinscriptionnamingAdm.Poleasthedonoron
thetopofthelefthandpage.RoyalAsiaticSociety,Arabic4 30
1.15 Beginningof Juzʾ16,Sūratal-Kahf,v.75.RoyalAsiaticSociety,Arabic4 31
1.16 FinalpageoftheQurʾān,withSūratal-Nās,andwithapanelatthebottom
containingthebenediction:ṢadaqAllāhtaʿālābalaghrasūlAllāhal-ʿAẓīm.
RoyalAsiaticSociety,Arabic4 32
1.17 Sūratal-Kahf,v.16,withinterlinearMalayexegeticaltranslation.Royal
AsiaticSociety,Arabic4 36
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