Dotting the dal and penetrating the letters; The Javanese origin of the Syair seribu masalah and its Bantenese spelling

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7263124
AutoresE P Wieringa (0000-0001-8080-4604, 1. [email protected], autor de correspondencia)
Año2003
Volumen159
Número4
Páginas499-518
Fecha de publicación2003-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134379-90003740
OpenAlexW2074197905
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas3

A number of years ago, Drewes (1986:324-5) drew attention in this journal to a versified Malay version of the so-called 'Book of the Thousand Questions', that is, the well-known story of the Jewish scholar cAbd Allah bin Sal?m of Khaybar who questioned the Prophet Muhammad about a wide spectrum of theological matters, ultimately embracing Islam after the Prophet had been able to answer all his questions in a satisfactory way.1 Drewes 'discovered' this text in Leiden University Library Cod. Or. 3343, belonging to the Van der Tuuk bequest. As Drewes duly noted, the Syair seribu masalah* in this manuscript is incomplete, consisting of two fragments, namely sheaf M, pp. 13-24 and sheaf N, pp. 1-10. The opening stanza of the first fragment reads (see Figure 1

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