Islam translated : literature, conversion, and the Arabic cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia - Ricci, Ronit (Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-298) and index.
Keywords: Book of one thousand questions -- Translations -- History and criticism; Kitab masail Abd Allah ibn Salam lil-Nabi.; Serat Samud; Ayira macala; Hikayat seribu masalah; Islamic literature -- Southeast Asia -- Translations -- History and criticism; Southeast Asian literature -- Islamic influences; Muslim converts from Judaism -- Early works to 1800 -- Translations -- History and criticism