Serendipitous translations : a sourcebook on Sri Lanka in the Islamic Indian Ocean / edited by Nile Green.
| Other author | Green, Nile, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication | Austin : University of Texas Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xix, 310 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
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| Series | Connected histories of the Middle East and the Global South Connected histories of the Middle East and the Global South. ^A1474793 |
| Contents | Introduction : an island in a sea of languages / Nile Green -- Ibn Battuta's Arabic travelogue on Sarandib / Christopher Bahl -- A fragrance from Ceylon : an Arabic mystical epistle by Shaykh Yusuf al-Maqasiri / Mahmood Kooria -- From the seventh clime to the jewel mine : Ottoman Turkish visions of Lanka from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries / Michael O'Sullivan -- Muslim Lanka in Malay : a prophet's exile, a writer's recollections, and a soldier-saint's journey / Teren Sevea -- "A journey through the sea" : an Indian merchant makes sense of Ceylon in Urdu / Nile Green -- The Muslim friend and the "Muslim revival" : religious change in Tamil Muslim newspapers / Torsten Tschacher -- Daydreams at dawn : Hussain Salahuddeen's Dhivehi novel *Numaan and Maryam* / Garrett Field -- Weaponizing identity : the Sinhalese reaction to Muslim migration and Indian Ocean cosmopolitanism at the turn of the twentieth century / Shamara Wettimuny -- Adam's Peak and Muslim identity in modern Tamil texts / Alexander McKinley. |
| Abstract | "Sri Lanka is an underappreciated focal point of global history. Known to Persian and Arab traders as Serendib, the island has long been a site of intensive cultural and material exchange, as well as a holy place--Islamic tradition holds that the biblical Adam arrived there after his expulsion from Eden. Assembling centuries of texts, this volume presents an array of sources from the Indian Ocean. Serendipitous Translations gathers travelogues, literary works, commercial records, inscriptions, religious tracts, pilgrim manuals, and more--an unprecedented range of Muslim voices from Sri Lanka between the 1200s and 1990s. These works vividly document medieval pilgrimages, maritime mysticism, diplomatic encounters, colonial-era commerce, and the bustling everyday affairs of a cosmopolitan Asian nexus. Expert translations bring Arabic, Malay, Turkish, Urdu, Dhivehi, Sinhala, Arabic-Tamil, and Tamil texts to readers of English for the first time. Editor Nile Green situates these texts in their Indian Ocean contexts by introducing the broad sweep of Sri Lanka's story. An invaluable collection, Serendipitous Translations is the most comprehensive anthology of primary sources ever assembled on Sri Lanka's thousand-year links to the Muslim world"-- De Gruyter Brill. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781477332894 |
| ISBN | 1477332898 (hardcover) |
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