Majid Daneshgar
Biographic Data
| ID | 642033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Majid Daneshgar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Majid |
| FAMILY NAME | Daneshgar |
| SIGNATURE | DANESHGAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kyoto University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Charles Higham. Early Southeast Asia
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Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
The book investigates lines of connection and shared literary heritage between the Persianate and Malay-Indonesian worlds over many centuries. Majid Daneshgar provides a critical and comparative study of Persianate-Malay stories, with specific focus on Durr al-Majālis , or Pearl of Gatherings – a classical Islamic text produced by Sayf Zafar (late thirteenth–mid-fourteenth centuries CE), a writer and scholar of Central Asian background, during th…
An Unknown Malay-Javanese Booklet Belonging to Thomas Erpenius
This article is about an unknown manuscript belonging to Thomas van Erpe, also known as Erpenius (d. 1624), a Dutch Arabist and orientalist. His Ms. Dd.3.82 preserved at Cambridge University Library was recorded as an Arabic booklet for centuries. But current research suggests otherwise; it is a booklet of Muslim prayers partially copied on Indonesian treebark paper (dluwang), including not only Arabic but also Malay and Javanese phrases and term…
Reading Ismāʿīlī Islam in Aceh
The current work before your eyes is a follow-up to my previous study of the manuscript Or.7056 at Leiden University Library. This manuscript is an old anthology of poems in Persian and Malay, including twenty-four fragments. In my previous articles, in 2020 and 2021, most of the fragments were identified, edited, romanized, and translated into English, and the antiquity of the manuscript was determined, respectively. Ms Or.7056 was dated by carb…
Beauty and Majesty
Anthologies of Persian Poetry Inscribed in Indonesia
This article is about seven rare manuscripts copied in Indonesia from the 15th–19th centuries. They include Persian poetic collections and musical modes, occasionally mixed with Hindi and Turkic phrases. This handlist is an introduction to the reception and circulation of Persianate texts in the Malay-Indonesian world for about five hundred years
Reinhard, A. Kevin
Persianate Fiqh in Indonesia
It is often said that the Shafiʿi school of law was the main source of the Malay-Indonesian Islamic legal tradition and codes during the last couple of centuries. However, one may wonder if further Islamic legal schools were welcomed in the archipelago and, if so, how and under what circumstances. On this subject, the author examines a rare, thick, fragile, and rare Persian manuscript. Copied in the seventeenth century, the manuscript in question…
Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis
Scholarly discourse on the Persianate tends to focus on the influence of Persian in Iran and further east, and often occludes the way in which the Persian language is inflected and present in the Arabic cosmopolis further west. Similarly, the formation of ‘Islamic classics’ and scholarly genres including exegesis tends to ignore the role of Persian works (and texts produced in a Persianate context). Through a case study of Qur’ānic exegesis in Pe…
A Very Old Malay Islamic manuscript
This work provides a carbon dating report of Or.7056 kept at Leiden University Library, a Persian anthology of poems with Malay interlinear translations found in Aceh. The common point raised in all former studies of this manuscript deals with its antiquity, which has the potential to increase our knowledge about Malay classical orthography, Malay familiarity with the Persian language and literary sources, and development of interlinear translati…
Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World
The Prophet Shaving
This article is about a well-known anonymous folk story in the Malay-Indonesian world, called Hikayat Nabi Bercukur (“The Story of Prophet Shaving”), found in various different languages across the region. The only scholarly conjecture about its origin is based on the copy of a Malay manuscript held in Leiden which has been deliberately blackened and struck through by a reader who stated in the margin that the story is written by a Rāfiḍī and sho…
Indonesian manuscripts in Iran
This report aims to introduce three previously unknown and under-examined Indonesian manuscripts that are preserved in Iranian libraries. They are written on dluwang/daluang paper and each include interlinear translations and glosses in Javanese using Pégon script. These manuscripts had been in the possession of religious families in Iran
An Egyptian Medical Officer and Qurʾān Commentator in Ottoman Syria
This article pays a particular attention to an Arab army physician and scholar from the mid-19th century who placed empirical science at the center of Islamic thought and situated it within Qurʾānic exegetical debates. He is the Egyptian Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī, a medical officer who ended up working in Ottoman Syria, and whose works were copied and printed (in)directly by the Ottomans. Apart from the limited information contained in pr…
The Images of the Shah and Khomeini in Indonesia and Malaysia
This study will shed light on the image of the Iranian leaders before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Southeast Asia in general, and in Indonesia and Malaysia in particular. Former studies have been based on outsider political and social interpretations to show the influence of post-revolutionary Iran on Malay-Indonesian social and political affairs. However, they have been more-or-less silent about the image and reception of influent…
An Old Persian-Malay Anthology of Poems from Aceh
Translation of Persian and Malay Literary Works in Malaysia and Iran
I Want to Become an Orientalist Not a Colonizer or a “De-Colonizer”
Writing Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy emerged out of my personal and academic concerns, which have not been relieved since its publication. Now, my trepidations have become more serious and I am becoming more disappointed about the future of religious and Islamic studies. Such concerns have not disappeared, and all we can do is remind the next generation that their field of study as well as their worldview was shaped in accordance wit…
New Evidence on the Origin of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah
Many scholars have studied the contribution of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah to Malay Islamic literature. Some of them, including Van Ronkel, Winstedt, Braginsky, and, especially, Brakel, have paid particular attention to the structure and content of the story. These scholars have all suggested that this hikayat was copied from an unidentified Persian manuscript and that the Malay version includes some sections not found in the Persian one. In …
Islamic Studies Today
Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, is a collection of essays on the Qur’ān, qur’anic exegesis, the early history of Islam, the relationship of the qur’anic text to writings from other religious traditions, and the use of the Qur’ān in modern discussions and debates. Its scope is medieval and modern contexts and it covers regions right across the Muslim world. The essays are based on and reflect Rippin's broad interests and m…
Farouk Yahya. Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts
beliefs, death, and so on, is much needed by arts, religious, cultural, and ethnical studies scholars
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
The divinatory role of the Qurʾan in the Malay World
Divination by the Qurʾan among Muslims dates back hundreds of years. Apart from the Middle East, it became popular among Malay Muslims as well. This article considers the divinatory role of the Qurʾan in the Malay world in general and a Malay manuscript preserved at the National Library of Malaysia, which concerns the divination of the Qurʾan in particular. Types of divination as well as the content of the manuscript along with its application an…
Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
An Approach to Science in the Qurʾān
The purpose of this analytical study is to re-examine Ṭanṭāwī Ǧawharī’s (1862-1940) so-called scientific exegesis of the Qurʾān. Some academics have praised him, while others critiqued or even called him a dreamer. However, this study takes into account Ṭanṭāwī’s view concerning science and explores his true motives for invoking science. The main purpose for analyzing his view in the course of this article is to further explore his definition of …
I Want to Become an Orientalist Not a Colonizer or a “De-Colonizer”
Writing Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy emerged out of my personal and academic concerns, which have not been relieved since its publication. Now, my trepidations have become more serious and I am becoming more disappointed about the future of religious and Islamic studies. Such concerns have not disappeared, and all we can do is remind the next generation that their field of study as well as their worldview was shaped in accordance wit…
New Evidence on the Origin of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah
Many scholars have studied the contribution of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah to Malay Islamic literature. Some of them, including Van Ronkel, Winstedt, Braginsky, and, especially, Brakel, have paid particular attention to the structure and content of the story. These scholars have all suggested that this hikayat was copied from an unidentified Persian manuscript and that the Malay version includes some sections not found in the Persian one. In …
A Chinese life of Islam
A Chinese life of Islam: the search for identity." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 24(1), pp. 129–130
Shi‘i interpretations of Islam
Shi‘i interpretations of Islam: three treatises on theology and eschatology." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 23(4), pp. 539–540
Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis
The main idea of this book concerns the distinction between what the author refers to as mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to qur'anic exegesis. Al-tafsīr bi-al-maʾthūr as a mainstream appro
Islam in Global Politics
Islam in Global Politics: Conflict and Cross-Civilizational Bridging." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 24(2), pp. 275–276
A Chinese life of Islam
A Chinese life of Islam: the search for identity." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 24(1), pp. 129–130
Qur'ānic Hermeneutics
An Approach to Science in the Qurʾān
The purpose of this analytical study is to re-examine Ṭanṭāwī Ǧawharī’s (1862-1940) so-called scientific exegesis of the Qurʾān. Some academics have praised him, while others critiqued or even called him a dreamer. However, this study takes into account Ṭanṭāwī’s view concerning science and explores his true motives for invoking science. The main purpose for analyzing his view in the course of this article is to further explore his definition of …
Farouk Yahya. Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts
beliefs, death, and so on, is much needed by arts, religious, cultural, and ethnical studies scholars
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
The divinatory role of the Qurʾan in the Malay World
Divination by the Qurʾan among Muslims dates back hundreds of years. Apart from the Middle East, it became popular among Malay Muslims as well. This article considers the divinatory role of the Qurʾan in the Malay world in general and a Malay manuscript preserved at the National Library of Malaysia, which concerns the divination of the Qurʾan in particular. Types of divination as well as the content of the manuscript along with its application an…
Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World
Islamic Studies Today
Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin, is a collection of essays on the Qur’ān, qur’anic exegesis, the early history of Islam, the relationship of the qur’anic text to writings from other religious traditions, and the use of the Qur’ān in modern discussions and debates. Its scope is medieval and modern contexts and it covers regions right across the Muslim world. The essays are based on and reflect Rippin's broad interests and m…
New Evidence on the Origin of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah
Many scholars have studied the contribution of the Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiyyah to Malay Islamic literature. Some of them, including Van Ronkel, Winstedt, Braginsky, and, especially, Brakel, have paid particular attention to the structure and content of the story. These scholars have all suggested that this hikayat was copied from an unidentified Persian manuscript and that the Malay version includes some sections not found in the Persian one. In …
The Images of the Shah and Khomeini in Indonesia and Malaysia
This study will shed light on the image of the Iranian leaders before and after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Southeast Asia in general, and in Indonesia and Malaysia in particular. Former studies have been based on outsider political and social interpretations to show the influence of post-revolutionary Iran on Malay-Indonesian social and political affairs. However, they have been more-or-less silent about the image and reception of influent…
An Old Persian-Malay Anthology of Poems from Aceh
Translation of Persian and Malay Literary Works in Malaysia and Iran
I Want to Become an Orientalist Not a Colonizer or a “De-Colonizer”
Writing Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy emerged out of my personal and academic concerns, which have not been relieved since its publication. Now, my trepidations have become more serious and I am becoming more disappointed about the future of religious and Islamic studies. Such concerns have not disappeared, and all we can do is remind the next generation that their field of study as well as their worldview was shaped in accordance wit…
Persianate Aspects of the Malay-Indonesian World
The Prophet Shaving
This article is about a well-known anonymous folk story in the Malay-Indonesian world, called Hikayat Nabi Bercukur (“The Story of Prophet Shaving”), found in various different languages across the region. The only scholarly conjecture about its origin is based on the copy of a Malay manuscript held in Leiden which has been deliberately blackened and struck through by a reader who stated in the margin that the story is written by a Rāfiḍī and sho…
Indonesian manuscripts in Iran
This report aims to introduce three previously unknown and under-examined Indonesian manuscripts that are preserved in Iranian libraries. They are written on dluwang/daluang paper and each include interlinear translations and glosses in Javanese using Pégon script. These manuscripts had been in the possession of religious families in Iran
An Egyptian Medical Officer and Qurʾān Commentator in Ottoman Syria
This article pays a particular attention to an Arab army physician and scholar from the mid-19th century who placed empirical science at the center of Islamic thought and situated it within Qurʾānic exegetical debates. He is the Egyptian Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Iskandarānī, a medical officer who ended up working in Ottoman Syria, and whose works were copied and printed (in)directly by the Ottomans. Apart from the limited information contained in pr…
Inscribing Persian in the Arabic Cosmopolis
Scholarly discourse on the Persianate tends to focus on the influence of Persian in Iran and further east, and often occludes the way in which the Persian language is inflected and present in the Arabic cosmopolis further west. Similarly, the formation of ‘Islamic classics’ and scholarly genres including exegesis tends to ignore the role of Persian works (and texts produced in a Persianate context). Through a case study of Qur’ānic exegesis in Pe…
A Very Old Malay Islamic manuscript
This work provides a carbon dating report of Or.7056 kept at Leiden University Library, a Persian anthology of poems with Malay interlinear translations found in Aceh. The common point raised in all former studies of this manuscript deals with its antiquity, which has the potential to increase our knowledge about Malay classical orthography, Malay familiarity with the Persian language and literary sources, and development of interlinear translati…
Persianate Fiqh in Indonesia
It is often said that the Shafiʿi school of law was the main source of the Malay-Indonesian Islamic legal tradition and codes during the last couple of centuries. However, one may wonder if further Islamic legal schools were welcomed in the archipelago and, if so, how and under what circumstances. On this subject, the author examines a rare, thick, fragile, and rare Persian manuscript. Copied in the seventeenth century, the manuscript in question…
Anthologies of Persian Poetry Inscribed in Indonesia
This article is about seven rare manuscripts copied in Indonesia from the 15th–19th centuries. They include Persian poetic collections and musical modes, occasionally mixed with Hindi and Turkic phrases. This handlist is an introduction to the reception and circulation of Persianate texts in the Malay-Indonesian world for about five hundred years
Reinhard, A. Kevin
Philosophy (24 works) · History (19 works) · Asian Studies and History (15 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (15 works) · Islam (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Malay (14 works) · Art (13 works) · Literature (12 works) · Islamic Studies and History (10 works)