M C Ricklefs
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 459061 |
|---|---|
| NOME | M C Ricklefs |
| PRENOMES | M C |
| SOBRENOME | Ricklefs |
| ASSINATURA | RICKLEFS M C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | 1. [email protected] |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 47 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1967 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The strange journey of Latawalujwa in Java, from two pre-Islamic goddesses to an elastic term for God
In the early history of Islam, pre-Islamic female goddesses named Al-Lat and al-‘Uzza were regarded as particular threats to the new faith. They appeared in one of the oldest surviving Modern Javanese manuscripts, a Caritanira Amir written no later than 1629, as Lata wa-l-‘Uzza, their names being joined by the Arabic conjunction wa. This appears to be the key to later Javanese misunderstanding of these two names as a single one: Latawalujwa (or c…
Soul Catcher
The Sweat of the King
Eighteenth-century Javanese sources indicate that in pre-colonial Javanese kingdoms, a distinction was drawn between the monarch's personal wealth-called monies that were 'pure in intent, from the sweat of the king'-and the revenues of the kingdom as an institution. The distinction was probably of Islamic origin. It seems probable that only such personal royal wealth was acceptable for funding acts of personal religious merit
The perils of hybridity in 19th-century Java
n 1866-1867, a controversy in the Javanese newspaper Bramartani raised questions as to whether the writer Ronggawarsita was really a great Javanese pujongga (poet). The correspondents – all from Java’s tiny literate class – stooped to extraordinary rudeness towards each other in the midst of withering criticism of Ronggawarsita, until the newspaper’s editor brought the correspondence to an end. This lively correspondence revealed not only divisio…
The Origin of Prince Mangkunagara I's Appellation as the Catcher of Souls
Prince Mangkunagara I of Surakarta (1726–1795), also known as Mas Said, was one of the most flamboyant figures of eighteenth-century Java. After his death he acquired the appellation Sambĕr Nyawa, meaning ‘catcher of souls’ or ‘snatcher of souls’, but the origin of this name has not previously been clear. A reference in his autobiographical account of the war years of 1742–1757, the Sĕrat Babad Pakunĕgaran (British Library Add. MS 12318), however…
Rediscovering Islam in Javanese History
Developments in our understanding of Javanese history have displaced a previously influential paradigm about the role of Islam in Javanese society. The view that Islam was marginal was exemplified in Van Leur’s description of Islam as ‘a thin, easily flaking glaze’ or Geertz’s observation that ‘It is very hard ... for a Javanese to be a “real Moslem”’. This paradigm implicitly posited an authentic Javanese culture which was essentially pre-Islami…
Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java
The Javanese - one of the largest ethnic groups in the Islamic world - were once mostly 'nominal Muslims' with pious believers a minority and the majority seemingly resistant to Islam's call for greater piety. Over the tumultuous period analyzed here - from the 1930s to the 2000s - that society has changed profoundly to become an extraordinary example of the rising religiosity that marks the modern age. \n \nIslamisation and Its Opponents in Java…
A New History of Southeast Asia
Preface by M. C. Ricklefs.- Illustrations.- Maps.- Orthography.- Abbreviations and Acronyms.- Introduction.- Ethnic Groups, Early Cultures and Social Structures.- Early State Formation.- 'Classical' States at their Height.- New Global Religions and Ideas, from the Thirteenth Century.- The Rise of New States from the Fourteenth Century.- Non-indigenous Actors New and Old.- Early Modern Southeast Asian States.- Colonial Communities c.1800-1900.- Re…
A History of Modern Indonesia since c .1200
Recognised as the most authoritative general account of Indonesia, this revised and expanded fourth edition has been updated in the light of new scholarship. New chapters at the end of the book bring the story up to the present day, including discussion of recent events such as the 2002 Bali terrorist bombings and the 2004 tsunami
The birth of the abangan
One of the great topics in the study of Javanese society is the distinction among santri, abangan and priyayi that was posited by Clifford Geertz in his book The religion of Java (1964). For many western observers at the time this was a momentous insight into an exotic culture. Although several Dutch and Indonesian authorities objected to some aspects of the Geertz depiction, it was immensely influential. Today, more than four decades after the p…
Polarising Javanese Society
Mystic Synthesis in Java
The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java, 1726-1749
Islamising Java
Ricklefs M.C. Islamising Java : The Long Shadow of Sultan Agung. In: Archipel, volume 56, 1998. L'horizon nousantarien. Mélanges en hommage à Denys Lombard (Volume I) pp. 469-482
Babad Sangkala and the Javanese sense of history
Merle C. Ricklefs There is a tradition of scepticism about the historical value of Javanese chronicles (babad), which has led to a privileging of European sources in the study of Javanese history. This scepticism may rest upon doubt whether the Javanese even have a sense of history. This paper argues that there is ample evidence in Javanese chronicles of a vibrant sense of the past. It analyses particularly Babad Sangkala. The original version of…
The MSS ofSěrat Cabolek
Sěrat Cabolekis a problematical but very interesting work concerning the court of Kartasura in the reign of Pakubuwana II. It tells of a religious controversy which became the subject of debate at the court, involving some of the most important figures in the realm, including the young king himself
The Yasadipura problem
I have a concise Javanese version [of Nitisastra] made by Yoso Dipuro a learned native of Suracarta which abounds in interpolations and false interpretations showing the spirit and manner in which works of this kind have been usually executed'.Crawfurd's views on all subjects were frequently acidic.On BL add MS 18577 ff.71v.-72r., he rejects Javanese historiography as 'ludicrous', for example (this passage is published in Crawfurd's History of th…
A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1300
This book is a comprehensive introductory text on the history of Indonesia since the arrival of Islam ca.1300 to the present day. An essential narrative of political history is provided together with
Unity and Disunity in Javanese Political and Religious Thought of the Eighteenth Century
A central problem in both the political and the intellectual history of Java is the disparity between the ideal of a unified state and the historical reality of fragmented power and authority, between the image and the reality of pre-colonial Javanese political history. An investigation of views held by literati of the kingdom of Mataram before the middle years of the eighteenth century can elucidate this problem. Turning from historical-politica…
An unhelpful contribution to the study of Javanese Islam
Mark R. Woodward. Islam in Java; Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. The Association for Asian Studies Monograph no. XLV. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1989. Pp. US$29.95, cloth
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia
The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720
Dr. Hermanus Johannes de Graaf (1899-1984)
Some Statistical Evidence on Javanese Social, Economic and Demographic History in the Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The pre-colonial Javanese kingdom was an unstatistical sort of state. Naturally it counted soldiers, taxes, wives, concubines and children, but it rarely kept detailed social and economic statistics. Nevertheless, some statistical records survive, largely through being preserved in Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Comparison and analysis of these, plus one or two leaps of imagination, enable one to build some historical hypotheses upon th…
Surrender Australia? Essays in the Study and Uses of History
Some Statistical Evidence on Javanese Social, Economic and Demographic History in the Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The pre-colonial Javanese kingdom was an unstatistical sort of state. Naturally it counted soldiers, taxes, wives, concubines and children, but it rarely kept detailed social and economic statistics. Nevertheless, some statistical records survive, largely through being preserved in Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Comparison and analysis of these, plus one or two leaps of imagination, enable one to build some historical hypotheses upon th…
Land and the Law in the Epigraphy of Tenth-Century Cambodia
Studies of the early Khmer empire have so far been inevitably concerned with establishing the chronological structure of its history and with its religious institutions, of which much is now known. Other areas of inquiry have tended to be postponed in order to undertake these basic tasks, and the impression may exist that the inscriptions, which are the principal documents for such research, contain no other types of information. This impression …
The birth of the abangan
One of the great topics in the study of Javanese society is the distinction among santri, abangan and priyayi that was posited by Clifford Geertz in his book The religion of Java (1964). For many western observers at the time this was a momentous insight into an exotic culture. Although several Dutch and Indonesian authorities objected to some aspects of the Geertz depiction, it was immensely influential. Today, more than four decades after the p…
Unity and Disunity in Javanese Political and Religious Thought of the Eighteenth Century
A central problem in both the political and the intellectual history of Java is the disparity between the ideal of a unified state and the historical reality of fragmented power and authority, between the image and the reality of pre-colonial Javanese political history. An investigation of views held by literati of the kingdom of Mataram before the middle years of the eighteenth century can elucidate this problem. Turning from historical-politica…
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Indonesia
Dipanagara's early inspirational experience
Pangeran Arja Dipanagara (ca.1785-1855), the leader of the rebel armies in the Java War (1825-1830), was both a prince of the Jogjakarta royal house (the eldest son of Sultan Hamëngkubuwana III) and a mystic.His mystical practices and the insights which they brought him were important in Dipanagara's view of himself, almost surely in the view which many of his supporters took towards him, and certainly in the estimations of him by later scholars.…
The crisis of 1740-1 in Java
Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain
Since the publication of the catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections (Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 1977), further MSS have of course come to light, as have some of those errors which inevitably attend such a work. It seems appropriate to publish here a list of additions and substantive corrections known to the authors by the beginning of 1981. The authors of the catalogue are grateful to those librarians and scho…
The evolution of Babad Tanah Jawi texts
Day's article in vol. 134 of this journal (Day 1978) has made a considerable contribution to the study of Javanese texts of the Babad Tanah Jawi type.At last the discussion appears to have moved away from assertions about the nature, functions, or reliability of babads in general (mostly based on the Meinsma babad, without regard to its dubious origins; cf.Ricklefs 1972: esp.286-9) to an analysis of particular texts and their interrelationships.D…
Bantěn and the Dutch in 1619
While working in the Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, in 1973, this writer had his attention drawn by Dr. G. V. Smith to an envelope in Koloniaal Archief 982 (Overgekomen Brieven en Papieren 1620) which apparently contained several early Javanese letters. Upon investigation these proved to be original correspondence between the dignitaries of Bantěn and the Dutch under Jan Pietersz. Coen after the Dutch conquest of Batavia in 1619. They are writ…
Soul Catcher
The Yasadipura problem
I have a concise Javanese version [of Nitisastra] made by Yoso Dipuro a learned native of Suracarta which abounds in interpolations and false interpretations showing the spirit and manner in which works of this kind have been usually executed'.Crawfurd's views on all subjects were frequently acidic.On BL add MS 18577 ff.71v.-72r., he rejects Javanese historiography as 'ludicrous', for example (this passage is published in Crawfurd's History of th…
An unhelpful contribution to the study of Javanese Islam
Mark R. Woodward. Islam in Java; Normative Piety and Mysticism in the Sultanate of Yogyakarta. The Association for Asian Studies Monograph no. XLV. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1989. Pp. US$29.95, cloth
An inventory of the Javanese manuscript collection in the British Museum
The Origin of Prince Mangkunagara I's Appellation as the Catcher of Souls
Prince Mangkunagara I of Surakarta (1726–1795), also known as Mas Said, was one of the most flamboyant figures of eighteenth-century Java. After his death he acquired the appellation Sambĕr Nyawa, meaning ‘catcher of souls’ or ‘snatcher of souls’, but the origin of this name has not previously been clear. A reference in his autobiographical account of the war years of 1742–1757, the Sĕrat Babad Pakunĕgaran (British Library Add. MS 12318), however…
Babad Sangkala and the Javanese sense of history
Merle C. Ricklefs There is a tradition of scepticism about the historical value of Javanese chronicles (babad), which has led to a privileging of European sources in the study of Javanese history. This scepticism may rest upon doubt whether the Javanese even have a sense of history. This paper argues that there is ample evidence in Javanese chronicles of a vibrant sense of the past. It analyses particularly Babad Sangkala. The original version of…
The MSS ofSěrat Cabolek
Sěrat Cabolekis a problematical but very interesting work concerning the court of Kartasura in the reign of Pakubuwana II. It tells of a religious controversy which became the subject of debate at the court, involving some of the most important figures in the realm, including the young king himself
A consideration of three versions of theBabad tanah Djawiwith excerpts on the fall of Madjapahit
The identification and assessment of his source materials are among the historian's most basic tasks. The purpose of the present discussion is to describe three versions of the Javanese chronicle calledBabad tanah Djawiand to provide excerpts describing the familiar story of the fall of Madjapahit in order to show how the same story differs in these three versions. The texts will be compared with regard to date and origin, and their historical va…
"The Establishment of Surakarta, a Translation from the "Babad Gianti
The eighteenth century witnessed many momentous events in Central Java: wars, the establishment of new courts, the divi sion of the kingdom, and the consolidation of the Dutch posi tion, to mention but a few.Raden Ngabehi Jasadipura, the great court poet of Surakarta, personally witnessed many of these events and recorded them for posterity.Among his numerous writings is the massive Babad Gianti , published in twenty-one volumes of Javanese scrip…
"The Establishment of Surakarta, a Translation from the "Babad Gianti
The eighteenth century witnessed many momentous events in Central Java: wars, the establishment of new courts, the divi sion of the kingdom, and the consolidation of the Dutch posi tion, to mention but a few.Raden Ngabehi Jasadipura, the great court poet of Surakarta, personally witnessed many of these events and recorded them for posterity.Among his numerous writings is the massive Babad Gianti , published in twenty-one volumes of Javanese scrip…
Land and the Law in the Epigraphy of Tenth-Century Cambodia
Studies of the early Khmer empire have so far been inevitably concerned with establishing the chronological structure of its history and with its religious institutions, of which much is now known. Other areas of inquiry have tended to be postponed in order to undertake these basic tasks, and the impression may exist that the inscriptions, which are the principal documents for such research, contain no other types of information. This impression …
An inventory of the Javanese manuscript collection in the British Museum
Mount Beauty Workshop on Islam in Indonesia
The workshop invited each candidate to present her or his topic to colleagues. There followed debate and discussion about the topics, about conceptual complexities, and about the way in which the research of others shed light on each individual topic. Most of the students were at early stages of research (mostly in the first year of candidature), but three were at final stages (Syafi'i Anwar, Fatimah Husein and Saliy White). One candidate, Mohama…
On the authorship of Leiden Cod. Or. 2191, Babad Mangkubumi
A consideration of three versions of theBabad tanah Djawiwith excerpts on the fall of Madjapahit
The identification and assessment of his source materials are among the historian's most basic tasks. The purpose of the present discussion is to describe three versions of the Javanese chronicle calledBabad tanah Djawiand to provide excerpts describing the familiar story of the fall of Madjapahit in order to show how the same story differs in these three versions. The texts will be compared with regard to date and origin, and their historical va…
A note on Professor Johns’s “Gift addressed to the spirit of the Prophet
In 1965, Professor A. H. Johns published with the assistance of Dr. P. Voorhoeve an edition and English translation of the Arabic and Java nese versions of the al-Tuhfa al-mursala il? r?h al-Nab? by Muhammad ibn Fadl All?h al-Burh?np?n. This he called The Gift Addressed to the Spirit of the Prophet (Canberra: Australian National University, 1965). The main Javanese text used in this study was British Museum Add. MS 12305, in which ff. 195 v. 209 …
A Survey of Historical Source Materials in Java and Manila
Good food guide
Good food guide." Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter, 2(4), p. 18
Dipanagara's early inspirational experience
Pangeran Arja Dipanagara (ca.1785-1855), the leader of the rebel armies in the Java War (1825-1830), was both a prince of the Jogjakarta royal house (the eldest son of Sultan Hamëngkubuwana III) and a mystic.His mystical practices and the insights which they brought him were important in Dipanagara's view of himself, almost surely in the view which many of his supporters took towards him, and certainly in the estimations of him by later scholars.…
Bantěn and the Dutch in 1619
While working in the Algemeen Rijksarchief, The Hague, in 1973, this writer had his attention drawn by Dr. G. V. Smith to an envelope in Koloniaal Archief 982 (Overgekomen Brieven en Papieren 1620) which apparently contained several early Javanese letters. Upon investigation these proved to be original correspondence between the dignitaries of Bantěn and the Dutch under Jan Pietersz. Coen after the Dutch conquest of Batavia in 1619. They are writ…
Short Notices
Journal Article SHORT NOTICES Get access M. C. RICKLEFS M. C. RICKLEFS School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCII, Issue CCCLXV, October 1977, Pages 906-a–906, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCII.CCCLXV.906-a Published: 01 October 1977
The evolution of Babad Tanah Jawi texts
Day's article in vol. 134 of this journal (Day 1978) has made a considerable contribution to the study of Javanese texts of the Babad Tanah Jawi type.At last the discussion appears to have moved away from assertions about the nature, functions, or reliability of babads in general (mostly based on the Meinsma babad, without regard to its dubious origins; cf.Ricklefs 1972: esp.286-9) to an analysis of particular texts and their interrelationships.D…
Indonesian Manuscripts in Great Britain
Perak
The Javanese in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
New research since the publication of the third edition of this book has revealed more of Javanese history, as opposed to the history of Dutch colonial activities in Java, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This new work has not only revealed more of the indigenous aspects of events which were formerly understood only from the European point of view, but has also placed European activities themselves in a different perspective. Judgement…
Indonesia
An Introduction to Javanese Law. A Translation of and Commentary on the Agama
Indonesian manuscripts in Great Britain
Since the publication of the catalogue of manuscripts in Indonesian languages in British public collections (Ricklefs and Voorhoeve, 1977), further MSS have of course come to light, as have some of those errors which inevitably attend such a work. It seems appropriate to publish here a list of additions and substantive corrections known to the authors by the beginning of 1981. The authors of the catalogue are grateful to those librarians and scho…
A History of Modern Indonesia
The crisis of 1740-1 in Java
In memoriam Dr. H.J. de Graaf
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Dr. Hermanus Johannes de Graaf (1899-1984)
Some Statistical Evidence on Javanese Social, Economic and Demographic History in the Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
The pre-colonial Javanese kingdom was an unstatistical sort of state. Naturally it counted soldiers, taxes, wives, concubines and children, but it rarely kept detailed social and economic statistics. Nevertheless, some statistical records survive, largely through being preserved in Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Comparison and analysis of these, plus one or two leaps of imagination, enable one to build some historical hypotheses upon th…
Surrender Australia? Essays in the Study and Uses of History
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