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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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• 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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• Part 1 Introduction: comparative study of literature in the context of religion and traditional culture-- macro-dimensional analysis.
• Part 2 Literary aggregations - Sino-Far Eastern, Indo-South East Asian, Arab-Muslim: essay 1 Literary zones of Asia - structure and transformations-- illustration I south east Asia as a literary region and literary "Asia in miniature".
• Part 3 Self awareness of Chinese, Sanskrit and Arabic literatures: essay 2 Creative process as an ascent - inspiration-- essay 3 Creative process as an ascent - literary work-- essay 4 Impact on the reader - a synthesis of pragmatic and aesthetic effects.
• Part 4 Literary system: essay 5 Man-universe-letters -general preconditions and configuration of literary systems in Chinese, Sanskrit and Arabic literatures-- illustration II literary system of reflective traditionalism as exemplified by classical Malay literature-- literary syntheses in Malay and Javanese literatures.
• Part 5 Neo-traditionalism: essay 6 Neo-traditionalism and eastern-western literary synthesis in modern Asian literatures-- illustration III neo-traditionalism and eastern-western literary synthesis in modern Asian literature-- illustration IV neo-traditionalism in Malaysian and Indonesian literatures (two case-studies.
• Part 6 Conclusion: literary aesthetics in Asian cultures.
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This book represents the first ever published introduction to the comparative study of traditional Asian literatures, embracing three vast literary zones: Arab-Islamic, Indo-South East Asian and Sino-Far Eastern. The aim of the book is to outline the main properties of Asian literatures in the period of 'reflective traditionalism' (the early centuries CE to the first half of the 19th century), when the creation of a vast body of aesthetically significant works was coupled with the emergence of literary self-awareness: when the nature of the creative process, the poetics and functions of the literary works, and the ways of their influence on the reader were thoroughly comprehended and committed to writing for the first time. The introduction defines the methodology of the macro-dimensional approach to the comparative study of traditional literatures which are understood as multi-level, hierarchial systems of genres. Then the book goes on to discuss such broader theoretical problems as the structure and evolution of literary zones and the types of ties between them, the relationship between poetics, literary aesthetics and the theological model of the world, the inspirati of the poet, the gift of the critic/reader, and the 'anthropomorphism' of literary systems, which turns them into an effective tool of personality formation. To clarify and explain these problems both the comparisons of traditional Arabic, Sanskrit, and classical Chinese literary doctrines with each other and the analysis of concrete literary works are used. The concluding chapter investigates the fortunes of traditionalism in modern Asian literatures as well as the attempt to revive the values of traditional literature in the perspective of the emergence of a neo-traditionalist trend in literature, which is analysed at different stages of its development. The book is intended for specialists in Asian literatures, comparative literature, and literary theory, and for students of these topics.
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South East Asia represents an extremely important field of comparative literary studies. This inaugural lecture attempts to outline the modern diversity of South East Asian literature and also to trace back its history and unity with the rest of Asian literature, and its early influences from both India and China. The lecture also focuses on the importance of early literature in South East Asian teaching, culture and religion, from early oral folk literatures and mythologies, to the preservation of traditional cultures in the present day.
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This volume, comprising eight closely related articles which were originally presented at the EUROSEAS 2004 conference in Paris, examines the depiction of foreigners in a range of Indonesian and Malay literary works spanning four centuries, from traditional texts in Malay and Javanese to modern Malaysian fiction and a Singaporean novel written in English. Sharing ideas of Said's conception of Orientalism and its 'twin-brother' Occidentalism, and Todorov's theory of monological and dialogical inter-cultural and inter-ethnic relations, the authors of the papers concentrate on the problem of the 'other'. The crux of this problem is how literary discourse of the examined writers, both traditional and modern, reveals the images and perceptions of their Malay and Indonesian neighbors and the world beyond, the Western world in particular.
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• Introduction Part I: Religion
• 1. Bauddha Brahmins in Bali C. Hooykaas
• 2. A New Look at Sasanavamsa V.B. Lieberman
• 3. The Dewartu Sotapan: a Mon prototype of the 37 nats Part II: History, Historical Sources
• 4. Tambralinga O.W. Walters
• 5. The Malay Founder of Medieval Malacca R.O. Winstedt
• 6. Malay History from Chinese Source R.O. Winstedt
• 7. Banten and the Dutch in
• 1619: six early 'pasar Malay' letters
• 8. North-western Cambodia in the seventh century O.W. Wolters
• 9. Some Sanskrit Inscriptions of Arakan E.H. Johnson
• 10. The Kyaikmaraw inscriptions H.L. Shorto
• 11. The 32 myos in the medieval Mon kingdom H.L. Shorto
• 12. Collaborateur versus Abstentioniste (Tuong versus Tri): political polemic in poetic dialogu during the French acquisition of southern Vietnam J.H.C.S. Davidson Part III: Literature and Arts
• 13. The story of Sudhana and Monohara: an analysis of the texts and the Borobudur reliefs Padmanabh S. Jaini
• 14. Further light on Sir Richard Winstedt's 'undescribed Malay version of the Ramayana' E.C.G. Barrett
• 15. Three old Achehnese Manuscripts P. Vorrhoeve
• 16. The date of the SOAS manuscript of the Sjair perang Mengkasar R. Jones
• 17. The Song of the Three Mons J.A. Stewart
• 18. Three 'immortal' Burmese songs Hla Pe, A.A. Allot and J. Okell
• 19. Country life in Burmese Literature C.W. Dunn, Hla Pe, J.A. Stewart
• 20. Mahorasop in a Thai Manora manuscript E.H.S. Simmonds
• 21. New evidence on Thai shadow-play invocations E.H.S. Simmonds Part IV: Historical Linguistics
• 22. A Chinese Vocabulary of Malacca Malay Words and Phrases E.D.Edwards, C.O. Blagden
• 23. A Chinese Vocabulary of Cham Words and Phrases E.D. Edwards, C.O. Blagden
• 24. Tangut or Proto-Burman G.H. Luce
• 25. Three Mon-Khmer word families H.L.Shorto
• 26. Achinese and mainland Austronesian H.L.Shorto
• 27. The structure of the word in Old Khmer J.M. Jacob.
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With particular emphasis on history, religion, literature and arts, this collection provides a multifaceted and representative picture of the classical civilizations of South-East Asia which will be of interest for comparative and cross-disciplinary studies in this field, as well as providing a number of historical and literary documents and translations of great scholarly value.
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