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This book offers an integrated study of the texts and images of illustrated Malay manuscripts on magic and divination from private and public collections in Malaysia, the UK and Indonesia. Containing some of the rare examples of Malay painting, these manuscripts provide direct evidence for the intercultural connections between the Malay region, other parts of Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. In this richly illustrated volume many images and texts are gathered for the first time, making this book essential reading for all those interested in the practice of magic and divination, and the history of Malay, Southeast Asian and Islamic manuscript art.
Price: $87.00
Pages: 352
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Arts and Archaeology of the Islamic World
Publication Date:
06 September 2023
ISBN: 9789004547193
Format: Paperback
"Magic and Divination in Malay Illustrated Manuscripts is a pioneering study in the field of Malay manuscripts and deserves to be appreciated as an invaluable contribution to scholarship in Islamic art history. It will function as a fundamental resource for future research and teaching on the singular visual and material culture of the Malay lands." - Yuka Kadoi, in: Orientations, January/February (2018)
"This is an important book. It makes a significant and original contribution to a little-known aspect of Malay manuscripture – illustrated Malay manuscripts on magic and divination – previously either ignored, or sampled very selectively, or approached tangentially through ethnographic studies… With its exceptionally wide-ranging references and thorough investigation, this book delivers much more than the sum of its parts, and constitutes a landmark in Malay manuscript studies." - Annabel Teh Gallop, in: Aseasuk News no. 61, Autumn (2017)
"This comprehensive book resembles a well written encyclopaedia in targeting every aspect of Southeast Asian notes on divination and magic .." - Majid Daneshgar, in: Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2016)
"This is an important book. It makes a significant and original contribution to a little-known aspect of Malay manuscripture – illustrated Malay manuscripts on magic and divination – previously either ignored, or sampled very selectively, or approached tangentially through ethnographic studies… With its exceptionally wide-ranging references and thorough investigation, this book delivers much more than the sum of its parts, and constitutes a landmark in Malay manuscript studies." - Annabel Teh Gallop, in: Aseasuk News no. 61, Autumn (2017)
"This comprehensive book resembles a well written encyclopaedia in targeting every aspect of Southeast Asian notes on divination and magic .." - Majid Daneshgar, in: Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3 (2016)
Farouk Yahya, Ph.D. (2013), SOAS, University of London, is Senior Teaching Fellow at this university. He was assistant curator of the exhibition The Arts of Southeast Asia from the SOAS Collections (2014-16) in the Brunei Gallery, SOAS.