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• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Illustrations and charts A note on transliteration Introduction
• Chapter 1: The first acquaintance in absentia: Turkic warriors, lovers and the barber of Istanbul
• Chapter 2: The first face-to-face encounter: stories of the embassies sent to the Ottomans
• Chapter 3: Kings of Rum, their heirs and vassals (1): Turkey in the dynastic space of the Malay world and beyond
• Chapter 4: Kings of Rum, their heirs and vassals (2): if Iskandar of Istanbul is unavailable, a Turkish prince or nobleman will do nicely
• Chapter 5: Two hundred years after the first embassy: Turkey, its useless Western allies and Russian enemies - the worst of kafirs Conclusion Postscript Bibliography Appendices Index.
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The Turkic-Turkish Theme in Traditional Malay Literature is the first detailed study of the representation of the Turkic peoples and Ottoman Turks in Malay literature between the 14th-19th centuries. Drawing on a wide range of texts, Vladimir Braginsky uncovers manifold metamorphoses and diverse forms of localisation of this Turkic-Turkish theme. This theme has strongly influenced the religious and political ideals and political mythology of Malay society. By creating fictional rather than realistic portrayals of the Turks and Turkey, imagining the king of Rum as the origin point of Malay dynasties, and dreaming of Ottoman assistance in the jihad against the colonial powers, Malay literati ultimately sought to empower the Malay `self' by bringing it closer to the Turkish `other'.
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• Cover; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Literature within the Malay World; 1 The Sight of Multicoloured Radiance: Lighting Effects in Malay Love-and-Adventure Narratives and the Sufi Concept of Visuality; 2 Narrating Tragedy in an Epic Tradition: The Fallen Hero inHikayat Potjut Muhamat; 3 Unity in Diversity among Muslims in the Malay World: Literary Works as Seen from the Perspective of Communication; 4 The End of Jawi Islamic Scholarship? Kitab Jawi, Qur'aanic Exegesis, and Politics in Indonesia.

• 5 An American Missionary Journey into the Malay Printing World6 The Image of Radio Technology in Modern Indonesian Literature; 7 Islamic Developments in Literature: The Case of the Malay Novel Imam by Abdullah Hussain; 8 Imagined Nation States in Modern Malay Plays; 9 Humour among Indonesian Muslims: A Neglected Genre in Malayo-Indonesian Studies; Poems:; The Prima Donna-I for Kak Jah; A Love Song for Ainal Adnin; Poems Dedicated to the Traveller-II: Songket; Part II: Beyond Malay Literature; 10 Threads that Bind: Cross-Influences in the Literatures of Southeast Asia.

• 11 Against Western Paradigms: Postcolonialism and the Filipino Critic12 Language and Control: A Study of Point of View in Conrad'; s Selected Malayan Texts; 13 Usman Awang and Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Between Romanticism and Vitalism; 14 In Contemplation of the Beyond: Selected Poems of Ayn and Gitanjali in a Comparative Perspective; 15 The Post-Berlin Expressionism of Latiff Mohidin; 16 On -an; 17 The Discourse on Science and Modernity in the History and Philosophy of Science: Modernist and Postmodernist Perspectives; Poems:; The Myth of Rha-Hu and the Moon Princess; The Flute and the Old Man.

• Poems Dedicated to the Traveller-II: DervishPoems Dedicated to the Traveller-III: Jerba La Douce; Biodata of Contributors; Index.

This Festschrift engages in the richness and variety of literatures and cultures of the Malay world, and goes beyond its shores to encounters between different cultures and traditions, and to the relationship between literary and other disciplines. Rainbows of Malay Literature and Beyond communicates the absorbing richness of inter-disciplinary study and knowledge.