By Ronit Ricci
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 method to contemplate connections that associated Muslims throughout divides of distance and tradition. reading the stream of this Islamic textual content and its diversified literary varieties, Ricci explores how procedures of literary translation and non secular conversion have been traditionally interconnected types of globalization, jointly based, and creatively reformulated inside of societies making the transition to Islam.
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