By Ronit Ricci
ISBN-10: 022638053X
ISBN-13: 9780226380537
ISBN-10: 0226710882
ISBN-13: 9780226710884
In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci makes use of the Book of 1 Thousand Questions—from its Arabic unique to its diversifications into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages among the 16th and 20th centuries—as a way to contemplate connections that associated Muslims throughout divides of distance and tradition. studying the flow of this Islamic textual content and its diversified literary varieties, Ricci explores how approaches of literary translation and spiritual conversion have been traditionally interconnected different types of globalization, at the same time based, and creatively reformulated inside societies making the transition to Islam.
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