Peter G Riddell
Biographic Data
| ID | 566790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter G Riddell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter G |
| FAMILY NAME | Riddell |
| SIGNATURE | RIDDELL P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian College of Theology, and SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Qur’anic Footprints from Southeast Asia in the Turkic World
This article links Southeast Asian tafsir and the Ottoman State by focusing on the first printed edition of the Tarjumān al-Mustafīd in Istanbul in 1884. The island of Sumatra and the Sultanate of Aceh played a crucial role in the spread of Islam and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir) throughout the Malay world. A foundational name is that of ‘Abd al-Rā’ūf al-Fansūrī (ca. 1615–1693), one of the earliest Qur’anic commentators in the Malay world. His work,…
Tafsir in the Non-Arab Muslim World – I
The six articles in this issue of AJIS demonstrate the richness of resources in tafsīr al- Qur’ān produced outside the Arabic-speaking world. These articles provide a snapshot of the rapidly developing interest in this field of studies in Southeast Asia and Africa. Further exciting glimpses into non-Arab world research into Qur’ānic exegesis will be on display in the next issue of AJIS, focusing on scholarship from India, Iran, Turkey and central…
Exegeting Sūra al Fātiḥa for the Masses
Purpose: This article considers exegetical perspectives on the best known Sūra of the Qur’ān from two exegetes who lived in diverse contexts in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Caliphate. Bediüzzaman Said Nursi is arguably the most influential theologian to emerge from in Ottoman Turkey in its long history. Haji Muḥammad Saʿīd bin ʿUmar, by contrast, enjoys a local reputation as a scholar in the Malay-Indonesian region but is unkn…
Apocalypse of Empire
The Apocalypse of Empire: Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. By Stephen J. Shoemaker. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 260. $59.95, £52
Islam in Malaysia
In his latest book, Dr Khairudin Aljunied has taken on the sizeable task of a history of Islamization in a vast and diverse region covering a period of 1000 years and more. This task brings with it opposite kinds of challenges. The earliest period typically has a dearth of available resources and the researcher is left to piece together a giant jigsaw puzzle, holding a limited number of pieces, resulting in an incomplete image. By contrast, the s…
Islam and Colonialism
Edward Said’s most famous work, Orientalism (first published in 1978), attained blockbuster status and provided the impetus for increasing recrimination leveled by formerly colonized communities against the perceived rapacious policies of European colonial powers. In this present book, Muhamad Ali reminds us at different points of some of Said’s charges against the colonial powers. First, Said claimed that the goal of colonial education was to pr…
Becoming Arab
Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by econ…
Malay Court Religion, Culture and Language
In Malay Court Religion, Culture and Language: Interpreting the Qurʾān in 17th Century Aceh Peter G. Riddell undertakes a detailed study of the two earliest works of Qur'anic exegesis from the Malay-Indonesian world. Riddell explores the 17th century context in the Sultanate of Aceh that produced the two works, and the history of both texts. He argues that political, social and religious factors provide important windows into the content and appr…
Christians and Muslims in Southeast Asia
Christians and Muslims have been interacting to varying degrees in Southeast Asia since the fifteenth century. The formative phase of the relationship between the two drew to some extent on attitudes inherited from other regions and other eras. Because of this, narratives of suspicion and hostility have been evident from the earliest interactions up to the present. However, towards the end of the European colonial era, more open and tolerant atti…
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
Camb. MS Or. Ii.6.45
Islam began to establish itself as the religion of both rulers and communities in the Malay-Indonesian world from around 700/1300, with the next three hundred years representing the establishment phase of Islam in the region, prior to the arrival of European colonial powers. The vast majority of extant theological texts dating from this three-hundred-year period originate from the Sultanate of Aceh on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. If…
From Kitab Malay to Literary Indonesian
This paper discusses semantic movement as evidenced in Malay/Indonesian Islamic texts. The primary text in focus provides an example of ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf al-Singkīlī’s Malay commentary on the Quran, Tarjumān al-Mustafīd, produced around 1675. The study of the lexical data from this text is informed by comparative reference to three modern Indonesian texts of Sūrah Yūsuf: Mahmoed Joenoes’ rendering (1954), the official Indonesian government rendering …
Variations on an Exegetical Theme
The field of tafsīr al-Qur’ān in Malay has attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent decades. The volume of commentaries has grown exponentially in the 20th century. Prior to that, Qur’anic exegesis in Malay was sporadic and varied. This paper will consider pioneering efforts by Malay commentators on the Qur’an, focusing on three key sets of materials. First, we will consider the earliest surviving fragments of tafsīr in Malay. Second, w…
Visualising Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism
Visualising Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism INGVILD FLASKERUD, 2010 London & New York: Continuum xiii + 299 pp., £65.00, US$55.00 (hb) ISBN 978–1–4411–4907–7 This fascinating study is based on e
A Film Window Into Political Struggle in Malaysia
Breaking the Hamzah Fansuri barrier
Rotterdam MS 96 D 16
The Diverse Voices of Political Islam in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Since the resignation of Suharto as president of Indonesia in May 1998, the country has suffered from chronic instability on various fronts. Economic disruption resulting from the Asian economic crisis of 1997 continues. Food shortages have been widespread throughout the archipelago. Social instability has been rife, especially in densely populated areas where communities have had to compete for scarce resources. Inter-religious conflict has expl…
Arab migrants and Islamization in the Malay world during the colonial period
(2001). Arab migrants and Islamization in the Malay world during the colonial period. Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 29, No. 84, pp. 113-128
Arab Migrants and Islamization in the Malay World During the Colonial Period
Religious Links Between Hadhramaut and the Malay-Indonesian World, c. 1850 to c. 1950
Literal Translation, Sacred Scripture and Kitab Malay
The study of Malay dialects was a specialist concern during the period of Dutch colonization of Indonesia and British colonization of the Malay peninsular. In recent times, the Malaysian National Language Council, the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, and its Indonesian counterpart, the Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa (PPPB), have devoted considerable resources to the study of Malay dialectology. Such dialect studies have necessarily had a geogra…
Becoming Arab
Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by econ…
The Diverse Voices of Political Islam in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Since the resignation of Suharto as president of Indonesia in May 1998, the country has suffered from chronic instability on various fronts. Economic disruption resulting from the Asian economic crisis of 1997 continues. Food shortages have been widespread throughout the archipelago. Social instability has been rife, especially in densely populated areas where communities have had to compete for scarce resources. Inter-religious conflict has expl…
Literal Translation, Sacred Scripture and Kitab Malay
The study of Malay dialects was a specialist concern during the period of Dutch colonization of Indonesia and British colonization of the Malay peninsular. In recent times, the Malaysian National Language Council, the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, and its Indonesian counterpart, the Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa (PPPB), have devoted considerable resources to the study of Malay dialectology. Such dialect studies have necessarily had a geogra…
Religious Links Between Hadhramaut and the Malay-Indonesian World, c. 1850 to c. 1950
Arab migrants and Islamization in the Malay world during the colonial period
(2001). Arab migrants and Islamization in the Malay world during the colonial period. Indonesia and the Malay World: Vol. 29, No. 84, pp. 113-128
Arab Migrants and Islamization in the Malay World During the Colonial Period
Rotterdam MS 96 D 16
The Diverse Voices of Political Islam in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Since the resignation of Suharto as president of Indonesia in May 1998, the country has suffered from chronic instability on various fronts. Economic disruption resulting from the Asian economic crisis of 1997 continues. Food shortages have been widespread throughout the archipelago. Social instability has been rife, especially in densely populated areas where communities have had to compete for scarce resources. Inter-religious conflict has expl…
Breaking the Hamzah Fansuri barrier
A Film Window Into Political Struggle in Malaysia
Visualising Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism
Visualising Belief and Piety in Iranian Shiism INGVILD FLASKERUD, 2010 London & New York: Continuum xiii + 299 pp., £65.00, US$55.00 (hb) ISBN 978–1–4411–4907–7 This fascinating study is based on e
Camb. MS Or. Ii.6.45
Islam began to establish itself as the religion of both rulers and communities in the Malay-Indonesian world from around 700/1300, with the next three hundred years representing the establishment phase of Islam in the region, prior to the arrival of European colonial powers. The vast majority of extant theological texts dating from this three-hundred-year period originate from the Sultanate of Aceh on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra. If…
From Kitab Malay to Literary Indonesian
This paper discusses semantic movement as evidenced in Malay/Indonesian Islamic texts. The primary text in focus provides an example of ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf al-Singkīlī’s Malay commentary on the Quran, Tarjumān al-Mustafīd, produced around 1675. The study of the lexical data from this text is informed by comparative reference to three modern Indonesian texts of Sūrah Yūsuf: Mahmoed Joenoes’ rendering (1954), the official Indonesian government rendering …
Variations on an Exegetical Theme
The field of tafsīr al-Qur’ān in Malay has attracted increasing scholarly attention in recent decades. The volume of commentaries has grown exponentially in the 20th century. Prior to that, Qur’anic exegesis in Malay was sporadic and varied. This paper will consider pioneering efforts by Malay commentators on the Qur’an, focusing on three key sets of materials. First, we will consider the earliest surviving fragments of tafsīr in Malay. Second, w…
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
Malay Court Religion, Culture and Language
In Malay Court Religion, Culture and Language: Interpreting the Qurʾān in 17th Century Aceh Peter G. Riddell undertakes a detailed study of the two earliest works of Qur'anic exegesis from the Malay-Indonesian world. Riddell explores the 17th century context in the Sultanate of Aceh that produced the two works, and the history of both texts. He argues that political, social and religious factors provide important windows into the content and appr…
Christians and Muslims in Southeast Asia
Christians and Muslims have been interacting to varying degrees in Southeast Asia since the fifteenth century. The formative phase of the relationship between the two drew to some extent on attitudes inherited from other regions and other eras. Because of this, narratives of suspicion and hostility have been evident from the earliest interactions up to the present. However, towards the end of the European colonial era, more open and tolerant atti…
Islam and Colonialism
Edward Said’s most famous work, Orientalism (first published in 1978), attained blockbuster status and provided the impetus for increasing recrimination leveled by formerly colonized communities against the perceived rapacious policies of European colonial powers. In this present book, Muhamad Ali reminds us at different points of some of Said’s charges against the colonial powers. First, Said claimed that the goal of colonial education was to pr…
Becoming Arab
Sumit K. Mandal uncovers the hybridity and transregional connections underlying modern Asian identities. By considering Arabs in the Malay world under European rule, Becoming Arab explores how a long history of inter-Asian interaction was altered by nineteenth-century racial categorisation and control. Mandal traces the transformation of Arabs from familiar and multi-faceted creole personages of Malay courts into alienated figures defined by econ…
Islam in Malaysia
In his latest book, Dr Khairudin Aljunied has taken on the sizeable task of a history of Islamization in a vast and diverse region covering a period of 1000 years and more. This task brings with it opposite kinds of challenges. The earliest period typically has a dearth of available resources and the researcher is left to piece together a giant jigsaw puzzle, holding a limited number of pieces, resulting in an incomplete image. By contrast, the s…
Tafsir in the Non-Arab Muslim World – I
The six articles in this issue of AJIS demonstrate the richness of resources in tafsīr al- Qur’ān produced outside the Arabic-speaking world. These articles provide a snapshot of the rapidly developing interest in this field of studies in Southeast Asia and Africa. Further exciting glimpses into non-Arab world research into Qur’ānic exegesis will be on display in the next issue of AJIS, focusing on scholarship from India, Iran, Turkey and central…
Exegeting Sūra al Fātiḥa for the Masses
Purpose: This article considers exegetical perspectives on the best known Sūra of the Qur’ān from two exegetes who lived in diverse contexts in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Caliphate. Bediüzzaman Said Nursi is arguably the most influential theologian to emerge from in Ottoman Turkey in its long history. Haji Muḥammad Saʿīd bin ʿUmar, by contrast, enjoys a local reputation as a scholar in the Malay-Indonesian region but is unkn…
Apocalypse of Empire
The Apocalypse of Empire: Imperial Eschatology in Late Antiquity and Early Islam. By Stephen J. Shoemaker. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. ix + 260. $59.95, £52
Qur’anic Footprints from Southeast Asia in the Turkic World
This article links Southeast Asian tafsir and the Ottoman State by focusing on the first printed edition of the Tarjumān al-Mustafīd in Istanbul in 1884. The island of Sumatra and the Sultanate of Aceh played a crucial role in the spread of Islam and Qur’anic exegesis (tafsir) throughout the Malay world. A foundational name is that of ‘Abd al-Rā’ūf al-Fansūrī (ca. 1615–1693), one of the earliest Qur’anic commentators in the Malay world. His work,…
Education and Islamic Studies (17 works) · History (16 works) · Asian Studies and History (15 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Malay (13 works) · Islam (12 works) · Ancient history (10 works) · Art (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (9 works)