TY - BOOK AU - Ricci, Ronit AU - Ricci, Ronit TI - Islam Translated: :literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia T2 - South Asia across the disciplines SN - 9780226380537 U1 - 809.933 RIC PY - 2011/// CY - Chicago ; London PB - : University of Chicago Press KW - Literature KW - History, description, critical appraisal of more than two literatures KW - Serat Samud KW - Āyira macalā KW - Kitāb masāʼil ʻAbd Allāh ibn Salām lil-Nabī KW - Muslim converts from Judaism -- Early works to 1800 -- Translations -- History and criticism KW - Littérature islamique -- Traductions -- Histoire et critique N1 - Arabic cosmopolis? -- Translation -- On "translation" and its untranslatability -- The Book of Samud: a Javanese literary tradition -- The Ayira Macala: Tamil questions and marvels -- Seribu Masalah: the Malay Book of One Thousand Questions -- Conversion -- Cosmopolitan in translation: Arabic's distant travels -- Conversion to Islam and the Book of One Thousand Questions -- A Jew on Java, a model Malay rabbi, and a Tamil Torah scholar -- The Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia N2 - The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines. In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions -- from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries -- as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam. Islam Translated will contribute to our knowledge of this region of the Muslim world that remains crucially important to world affairs. -- Book jacket ER -