{"product_id":"persianate-prose-and-the-making-majid-daneshgar-9781399537575","title":"Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature: Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr Al-Majalis","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003ci\u003e Durr al-Majālis\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003ePearl of Gatherings\u003c\/i\u003e - a classical Islamic text produced by Sayf Zafar (late thirteenth-mid-fourteenth centuries CE), a writer and scholar of Central Asian background, during the Delhi Sultanate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe book illustrates how the \u003ci\u003eDurr al-Majālis \u003c\/i\u003econtains various legal, theological-philosophical, metaphysical, chivalrous and mystical accounts. In addition, it traces how the book travelled beyond the so-called 'Balkans-to-Bengal' borders and was copied, translated and annotated across Eastern Africa, Eastern Turkistan, Mongol-dominated China, Arabic-speaking Egypt and South East Asia. It demonstrates how this Persian collection of stories shaped the idea of Islam, Islamic teachings and stories across the Muslim World, and in the Malay-Indonesian World in particular.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Majid Daneshgar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399537571\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399537575\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/31\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.50d","brand":"Majid Daneshgar","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47072101204223,"sku":"9781399537575","price":165.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d7f7f4d-7449-4073-ba4d-bd25be6d0966.jpg?v=1753415791","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/persianate-prose-and-the-making-majid-daneshgar-9781399537575","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}