Peter Riddell
Biographic Data
| ID | 602237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Riddell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Riddell |
| SIGNATURE | RIDDELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York Times |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8814-4364 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tafsir in the Non-Arab Muslim World – II
This is the second special issue of the Australian Journal of Islamic Studies that focuses on the topic of Qur’ānic exegesis or tafsīr al-Qur’ān in the non-Arab world. While the first special issue (Volume 6, Issue 4, 2021) mainly analysed Qur’ānic exegesis in Southeast Asia and Africa, this second issue extends its focus from Western Islamic lands to the Eastern parts (Ottoman to the Indian subcontinent), particularly Qur’ānic exegesis in Persia…
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…
Divine Testing and the Covid Pandemic
The Qur’an carries many references to the created world being subjected to divine testing. It, therefore, seems obvious to ask whether the COVID pandemic that has caused so much suffering across the world and continues to ravage communities represents a test by God for faithful believers. Tests can be daunting experiences, causing apprehension and fear. To what extent should faithful believers regard the COVID pandemic as a fearful, traumatic exp…
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
Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
A Jawi Sourcebook for the Study of Malay Palaeography and Orthography
This special issue of Indonesia and the Malay World was compiled by friends and colleagues as a tribute to Professor E. Ulrich Kratz's three decades of teaching Jawi and traditional Malay literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and to mark his 70th birthday on 14 October 2014. Reflecting Ulrich's deep interest in Malay manuscript texts and letters over many years (see the list of publications compiled by He…
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…
In Defense of Politicians
In Defense of Politicians: The Expectations Trap and its Threat to Democracy." The Journal of Legislative Studies, 19(3), pp. 423–424
The Makings of Indonesian Islam
Journal Article The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi PastBy Michael Laffan. Get access The Makings of Indonesian Islam: Orientalism and the Narration of a Sufi Past By Michael Laffan (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2011), xx + 301 pp., notes, index. Price HB £27.95. EAN 978–0691145303. Peter G. Riddell Peter G. Riddell Melbourne School of Theology Search for other works by this author on: Oxf…
Debating Flinders
This article comprises a set of six responses to ‘The demonisation of politicians: moral panics, folk devils and MPs' expenses’ by Matthew V. Flinders, also published in this issue of the journal. The authors are Domonic A. Bearfield, Alastair Campbell, Martin Gainsborough, Peter Riddell, Klaus Segbers and Gerry Stoker
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
The Official History of the British Civil Service
In Defence of Politicians
POLITICIANS HAVE never been popular. Their motives and behaviour have always been questioned. They have been seen as devious, factional and self-interested, pursuing sectional rather than national interests. We all know Henry Carey's words from 300 years ago in the National Anthem: ‘Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks’. Or from the other side of the Atlantic: ‘Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the inte…
A Film Window Into Political Struggle in Malaysia
Tony Wright on Doing Politics Differently
Tony Blair's ‘Media’ Speech
Tony Blair's speech challenged the media over its standards in his valedictory lecture. Many of his charges about the absence of balance, attacks on motive and a pack mentality stand up, even if some are exaggerated and also applied well before his arrival in 10 Downing Street. Mr Blair's solutions did ot match his critique. What is required is a more self‐questioning media, being held to account on the internet and on specialist blogging sites. …
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
In Defence of Politicians
POLITICIANS HAVE never been popular. Their motives and behaviour have always been questioned. They have been seen as devious, factional and self-interested, pursuing sectional rather than national interests. We all know Henry Carey's words from 300 years ago in the National Anthem: ‘Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks’. Or from the other side of the Atlantic: ‘Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the inte…
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 impact of the rise of the career politician
1995). The impact of the rise of the career politician. The Journal of Legislative Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 186-191
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…
Members and Millbank
Earliest Quranic Exegetic Activity in the Malay Speaking States
Riddell Peter. Earliest Quranic Exegetic Activity in the Malay Speaking States. In: Archipel, volume 38, 1989. pp. 107-124
Prime Ministers and Parliament
Journal Article Prime Ministers and Parliament Get access Peter Riddell Peter Riddell chief political commentator for The Times and a member of the Hansard Society Council Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 814–829, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsh063 Published: 01 October 2004
The end of clause IV, 1994–95
Less than three months after being elected Labour leader, Tony Blair startled the political world by proposing the rewriting of the ideological bedrock of the party, Clause IV, the statement of aims and objects enshrined in its constitution. Hugh Gaitskell's failed attempt to do so in 1960 had deterred Blairs’ predecessors as leader from putting forward a similar plan. But after the party's fourth defeat in a row in 1992, discussion about repeal …
The Conservatives After 1992
The inquiring eye
Journal Article The inquiring eye: a selection of the writings of David Watt Get access The inquiring eye: a selection of the writings of David Watt. Edited by Ferdinand Mount. London: Penguin. 1988. 345pp. £9.95. ISBN 0 14 011390 8. Peter Riddell Peter Riddell 1Financial Times, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 521–522, https://doi.org…
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…
Earliest Quranic Exegetic Activity in the Malay Speaking States
Riddell Peter. Earliest Quranic Exegetic Activity in the Malay Speaking States. In: Archipel, volume 38, 1989. pp. 107-124
The inquiring eye
Journal Article The inquiring eye: a selection of the writings of David Watt Get access The inquiring eye: a selection of the writings of David Watt. Edited by Ferdinand Mount. London: Penguin. 1988. 345pp. £9.95. ISBN 0 14 011390 8. Peter Riddell Peter Riddell 1Financial Times, Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 65, Issue 3, Summer 1989, Pages 521–522, https://doi.org…
The use of Arabic commentaries on the Qur'an in the early Islamic period in south‐east asla
(1990). The use of Arabic commentaries on the Qur'an in the early Islamic period in south‐east asla: Report on work in progress. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 18, No. 51, pp. 3-19
The Thatcher Decade
West Asia looks east
The place of personal values in scholarship on the Middle East
The Conservatives After 1992
The impact of the rise of the career politician
1995). The impact of the rise of the career politician. The Journal of Legislative Studies: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 186-191
Religious Links Between Hadhramaut and the Malay-Indonesian World, c. 1850 to c. 1950
The end of clause IV, 1994–95
Less than three months after being elected Labour leader, Tony Blair startled the political world by proposing the rewriting of the ideological bedrock of the party, Clause IV, the statement of aims and objects enshrined in its constitution. Hugh Gaitskell's failed attempt to do so in 1960 had deterred Blairs’ predecessors as leader from putting forward a similar plan. But after the party's fourth defeat in a row in 1992, discussion about repeal …
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
Members and Millbank
The Second Chamber
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…
Tony Blair Needs a Hug
Breaking the Hamzah Fansuri barrier
Prime Ministers and Parliament
Journal Article Prime Ministers and Parliament Get access Peter Riddell Peter Riddell chief political commentator for The Times and a member of the Hansard Society Council Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 57, Issue 4, October 2004, Pages 814–829, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsh063 Published: 01 October 2004
The Rise of the Ranters
Impressions of the Election
Books on parliament
Tony Blair's ‘Media’ Speech
Tony Blair's speech challenged the media over its standards in his valedictory lecture. Many of his charges about the absence of balance, attacks on motive and a pack mentality stand up, even if some are exaggerated and also applied well before his arrival in 10 Downing Street. Mr Blair's solutions did ot match his critique. What is required is a more self‐questioning media, being held to account on the internet and on specialist blogging sites. …
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