Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Appendices A Note on Malay Names Introduction: World-making Through Malay-Indonesian Manuscripts Part I: Origins and Connections 1. Conversions and Connections: Re-Tellings from Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai, Qissat Shakarwatt Farmad, and Tuhfat al-Mujahidin. (Sher Banu A.L. Khan) 2. Origins and Founders in Northwest Borneo: The Oral Intertextuality of Syair Awang Semaun and Related Stories. (Stephen Druce) 3. Raja Cempa in the Sejarah Melayu and the Dalukal of the Cham: Re-thinking Malay-Cham Historical Interactions.
(Mohamed Effendy) 4. The World of Early 17th-century Aceh through the Lens of an old Malay Cosmogony. (Peter G. Riddell) Part II: Sexuality, Gender, and Power 5. Mystical Syair and Worldly Pantun: Emotion, Passion, and Submission in Malay Love Verses. (Maznah Mohamad) 6. Queen Sheba and Narratives of Female Power in Malay Islamic Hagiography: Intertextual Study of Hikayat Puti Balqis Collection of Surau Simaung, West Sumatra. (Abdullah Maulani) Part III: Legal Culture, Contracts, and Negotiation 7.
Documents from the Royal Chancery of Aceh: Istimi in the 17th Century. (Annabel Teh Gallop) 8. Representing Social Actors in Hukum Kanun Brunei: A Critical Discourse Studies Perspective. (Siti Badriyah Haji Mohamad Yusof) 9. Surat Sungai: Plantations, Legal Documents, and Malay Writing Culture in Johor (c.1860-c.1920). (Elsa Clavé) Part IV: Spirituality, Emotions, and Aesthetics 10.
Crystal-Clear Knowledge, Flawless Deeds: The Exiled Cleric and Spiritual Genealogy of The Akmaliyyah Sufi Order (Tarekat) in 19th-Century Colonial Java. (Wahyu Widodo) 11. Plain Paper and Resplendent Cloth: A Malay Manuscript's Imagining of Javanese Material Culture. (Mulaika Hijjas) Part V: The Reinvention of Contemporary Life 12. Lontar Yusup as Living Manuscript: The Role of a Performative Text in Active Interpretation among the Osing Community. (Lilis Shofiyanti) 13. Epistemic Disobedience and Cultural Memories: Polemics of the Wangsakerta Manuscripts of Cirebon. (Siti Sarah Muwahidah) Bibliography Contributors.