Thibaut D’hubert
Biographic Data
| ID | 4798760 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thibaut D’hubert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thibaut |
| FAMILY NAME | D’hubert |
| SIGNATURE | D’HUBERT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies
Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is…
India beyond the Ganges
In the late eighteenth century a Scotsman returned from Bengal with one of the largest private libraries of Persian texts collected in the Subcontinent. Among those manuscripts were several volumes of translations of Arakanese and Pali texts into Persian, as well as quasi ethnographic accounts on Buddhism as it was practiced in what is seen today as the frontier region between South and Southeast Asia. In this article I look at this archive and t…
Ālāol’s Poetry and Mrauk U’s Political Turmoil
The political crisis of 1661 that was triggered by the arrival in Arakan of Mughal Prince Shāh Shujāʿ (d. 1661), who was fleeing from his brother Awrangzeb’s ( r . 1658–1707) army, marks the beginning of major shifts in Ālāol’s literary activities. In this chapter, I follow the thread of Ālāol’s poems’ stylistic evolutions during the decade spanning from 1661 to 1671—the date of the composition of Sikāndarnāmā , Ālāol’s last work. This period is …
Living in Marvelous Lands
A Persian Account of the Religious Customs of the Magh (Arakanese) from Early Colonial Bengal
The document presented in this article is a quasi-ethnographic account of the religious customs of the Magh (i.e. Arakanese), which was most probably collected on the basis of firsthand observations made in the region of Chittagong, in southeastern Bengal, sometime in the 1780s, or early 1790s. The commissioner of the document is John Murray-MacGregor (1745–1822), a Scottish officer of the British East India Company, who remained in Bengal for ab…
Pirates, Poets, and Merchants
Représentations du monde dans le golfe du Bengale au XVIIe siècle
This article explores the contrasting visions of world geography prevailing around the Bay of Bengal in the 17th century, namely in Aceh and Arakan. After a preliminary study of the geographical horizons of Bengali and Malay literature, the authors proceed to an analysis and comparison of the world descriptions of the religious scholar Nur al-Din al-Rānīrī and of the Bengali poet Ālāol, having worked respectively in Aceh and Mrauk-U. This inquiry…
Représentations du monde dans le golfe du Bengale au XVIIe siècle
This article explores the contrasting visions of world geography prevailing around the Bay of Bengal in the 17th century, namely in Aceh and Arakan. After a preliminary study of the geographical horizons of Bengali and Malay literature, the authors proceed to an analysis and comparison of the world descriptions of the religious scholar Nur al-Din al-Rānīrī and of the Bengali poet Ālāol, having worked respectively in Aceh and Mrauk-U. This inquiry…
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies
Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is…
Représentations du monde dans le golfe du Bengale au XVIIe siècle
This article explores the contrasting visions of world geography prevailing around the Bay of Bengal in the 17th century, namely in Aceh and Arakan. After a preliminary study of the geographical horizons of Bengali and Malay literature, the authors proceed to an analysis and comparison of the world descriptions of the religious scholar Nur al-Din al-Rānīrī and of the Bengali poet Ālāol, having worked respectively in Aceh and Mrauk-U. This inquiry…
Pirates, Poets, and Merchants
Ālāol’s Poetry and Mrauk U’s Political Turmoil
The political crisis of 1661 that was triggered by the arrival in Arakan of Mughal Prince Shāh Shujāʿ (d. 1661), who was fleeing from his brother Awrangzeb’s ( r . 1658–1707) army, marks the beginning of major shifts in Ālāol’s literary activities. In this chapter, I follow the thread of Ālāol’s poems’ stylistic evolutions during the decade spanning from 1661 to 1671—the date of the composition of Sikāndarnāmā , Ālāol’s last work. This period is …
Living in Marvelous Lands
A Persian Account of the Religious Customs of the Magh (Arakanese) from Early Colonial Bengal
The document presented in this article is a quasi-ethnographic account of the religious customs of the Magh (i.e. Arakanese), which was most probably collected on the basis of firsthand observations made in the region of Chittagong, in southeastern Bengal, sometime in the 1780s, or early 1790s. The commissioner of the document is John Murray-MacGregor (1745–1822), a Scottish officer of the British East India Company, who remained in Bengal for ab…
India beyond the Ganges
In the late eighteenth century a Scotsman returned from Bengal with one of the largest private libraries of Persian texts collected in the Subcontinent. Among those manuscripts were several volumes of translations of Arakanese and Pali texts into Persian, as well as quasi ethnographic accounts on Buddhism as it was practiced in what is seen today as the frontier region between South and Southeast Asia. In this article I look at this archive and t…
Towards a Burma-inclusive South Asian Studies
Burma, or Myanmar as it was renamed in 1989, is largely ignored within the discipline of South Asian Studies, despite its cultural, religious, economic, and strategic significance for the wider worlds of Asia. Burma is often studied either in isolation or alongside Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, and Malaysia, despite its equally important historical and cultural connections to communities, states, and networks across what is…
Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Literature (6 works) · BENGAL (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (3 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · Bay (3 works) · Geography (3 works)