Mulaika Hijjas
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 641935 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mulaika Hijjas |
| PRENOMES | Mulaika |
| SOBRENOME | Hijjas |
| ASSINATURA | HIJJAS M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8490-0724 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 13 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
From Cik Candra to Tengku Zamzam
This article identifies and analyses two distinct ‘snapshots’ of manuscripts traceable to Kedah and the surrounding areas: the manuscripts collected by Raffles, Leyden, and others in the early 19th century, and those collected by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Bureau for Language and Literature) in the mid 20th century. These two collections show continuities in the kinds of people who owned and copied texts, in the practices of copying and borrowing,…
Manuscript Libraries and Colonialism in Island Southeast Asia
Vladimir Braginsky (1945-2024)
The transmission and (re)invention of tradition in Island Southeast Asia
Old names for new things
This article examines two objects of Malay royal regalia: the Perak betel-box known as the puan naga taru and the Riau emblem known as the cogan. Drawing on Hobsbawm and Ranger’s articulation of ‘invented tradition’, and on Amoroso’s of ‘traditionalism’ with reference to Malay kingship, detailed comparison of the textual and material records is adduced to argue that the physical objects themselves are likely to be much younger than the traditions…
The Trials of Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawīyya in the Malay World
Sufism is often taken to be the form of Islamic practice that was most welcoming to women. Similarly, Southeast Asia is commonly said to be characterized by unusually high levels of female autonomy, relative to the surrounding regions. This article discusses for the first time a Malay text, the Hikayat Rabiʿah, about the most famous female Sufi in Islamic history, Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawīyya, and suggests that these assumptions regarding Sufi women in So…
Marks of many hands
Annotation is a paratextual element of Malay manuscripts that has been little studied. This preliminary investigation draws on recently digitised material to survey the varieties of annotation in both literary and kitab manuscripts, highlighting the significant differences between the two manuscript corpora. The main categories of annotation in literary manuscripts include ownership marks, doodling and probatio pennae, warnings about the contents…
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…
Guides for MRS Nawawi
This article explores how texts circulating in the Malay world on the subject of the religious obligations of women reflect currents of Islamic reform transmitted across the Indian Ocean. The focus is on Abdullah b. Abdul Rahim's Kitab muhimmah and Raja Ali Haji's Syair Siti Sianah, both apparently 19th-century reformist responses to the substantial corpus of Malay works setting out the duties of wives, paramount among which is devoted service, b…
The Legend You Thought You Knew’
This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films. In all her instantiations, the figure of Puteri Gunung Ledang can be interpreted in relation to the legitimation of the state, with the folklore preserving her most archaic incarnation as a chthonic deity essential to the maintenance of the ruling dynasty. By the t…
Not just fryers of bananas and sweet potatoes
I argue that women's literacy was more common than is usually supposed and that women engaged extensively with written literature, both as readers and writers. I also discuss the role of traditional Islamic education in transmitting literacy among girls. The article is based on the examination of a group of narrative poems written by women at the court of Penyengat
The nursemaid's tale
Despite sustained scholarly interest in slavery and bondage in the Malay world, what is known about female domestic slavery and, specifically, the institution of the inang may be summarised by Maxw
Family Ghosts
Old names for new things
This article examines two objects of Malay royal regalia: the Perak betel-box known as the puan naga taru and the Riau emblem known as the cogan. Drawing on Hobsbawm and Ranger’s articulation of ‘invented tradition’, and on Amoroso’s of ‘traditionalism’ with reference to Malay kingship, detailed comparison of the textual and material records is adduced to argue that the physical objects themselves are likely to be much younger than the traditions…
Not just fryers of bananas and sweet potatoes
I argue that women's literacy was more common than is usually supposed and that women engaged extensively with written literature, both as readers and writers. I also discuss the role of traditional Islamic education in transmitting literacy among girls. The article is based on the examination of a group of narrative poems written by women at the court of Penyengat
The Legend You Thought You Knew’
This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films. In all her instantiations, the figure of Puteri Gunung Ledang can be interpreted in relation to the legitimation of the state, with the folklore preserving her most archaic incarnation as a chthonic deity essential to the maintenance of the ruling dynasty. By the t…
Vladimir Braginsky (1945-2024)
The transmission and (re)invention of tradition in Island Southeast Asia
Family Ghosts
The nursemaid's tale
Despite sustained scholarly interest in slavery and bondage in the Malay world, what is known about female domestic slavery and, specifically, the institution of the inang may be summarised by Maxw
The Legend You Thought You Knew’
This article traces the evolution of narratives about the supernatural woman said to live on Gunung Ledang, from oral folklore to sixteenth-century courtly texts to contemporary films. In all her instantiations, the figure of Puteri Gunung Ledang can be interpreted in relation to the legitimation of the state, with the folklore preserving her most archaic incarnation as a chthonic deity essential to the maintenance of the ruling dynasty. By the t…
Not just fryers of bananas and sweet potatoes
I argue that women's literacy was more common than is usually supposed and that women engaged extensively with written literature, both as readers and writers. I also discuss the role of traditional Islamic education in transmitting literacy among girls. The article is based on the examination of a group of narrative poems written by women at the court of Penyengat
Guides for MRS Nawawi
This article explores how texts circulating in the Malay world on the subject of the religious obligations of women reflect currents of Islamic reform transmitted across the Indian Ocean. The focus is on Abdullah b. Abdul Rahim's Kitab muhimmah and Raja Ali Haji's Syair Siti Sianah, both apparently 19th-century reformist responses to the substantial corpus of Malay works setting out the duties of wives, paramount among which is devoted service, b…
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…
Marks of many hands
Annotation is a paratextual element of Malay manuscripts that has been little studied. This preliminary investigation draws on recently digitised material to survey the varieties of annotation in both literary and kitab manuscripts, highlighting the significant differences between the two manuscript corpora. The main categories of annotation in literary manuscripts include ownership marks, doodling and probatio pennae, warnings about the contents…
The Trials of Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawīyya in the Malay World
Sufism is often taken to be the form of Islamic practice that was most welcoming to women. Similarly, Southeast Asia is commonly said to be characterized by unusually high levels of female autonomy, relative to the surrounding regions. This article discusses for the first time a Malay text, the Hikayat Rabiʿah, about the most famous female Sufi in Islamic history, Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawīyya, and suggests that these assumptions regarding Sufi women in So…
Vladimir Braginsky (1945-2024)
The transmission and (re)invention of tradition in Island Southeast Asia
Old names for new things
This article examines two objects of Malay royal regalia: the Perak betel-box known as the puan naga taru and the Riau emblem known as the cogan. Drawing on Hobsbawm and Ranger’s articulation of ‘invented tradition’, and on Amoroso’s of ‘traditionalism’ with reference to Malay kingship, detailed comparison of the textual and material records is adduced to argue that the physical objects themselves are likely to be much younger than the traditions…
From Cik Candra to Tengku Zamzam
This article identifies and analyses two distinct ‘snapshots’ of manuscripts traceable to Kedah and the surrounding areas: the manuscripts collected by Raffles, Leyden, and others in the early 19th century, and those collected by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (Bureau for Language and Literature) in the mid 20th century. These two collections show continuities in the kinds of people who owned and copied texts, in the practices of copying and borrowing,…
Manuscript Libraries and Colonialism in Island Southeast Asia
Asian Studies and History (10 obras) · History (10 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Ancient history (6 obras) · Education and Islamic Studies (6 obras) · Linguistics (6 obras) · Malay (6 obras) · Art (5 obras) · History (5 obras) · Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies (5 obras)