The Malay Ṣūfī Glossary: A Study of al-Manhal al-Ṣāfī of Shaykh Dāwūd al-FaṭānīShaykh Dawud al Fatani stands out as one of the most prolific scholars in the history of the Malay Archipelago. His profound works, spanning fields such as jurisprudence, ethics, theology, and metaphysics, demonstrate his mastery gained through extensive studies with renowned scholars. This timely publication brings to light the first English translation of Shaykh Dawud al Fatanis monumental work, complete with Jawi transcriptions and an in depth

offers the first global account of the origins of this new trans-local socialist politics

Coates sees with devastating clarity the tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground

not only as a "science of health

For much of human history

This book calls into question received views on kingship in the Malay world and shows how an indigenous polity responded to European companies in the age of early East-West encounters during Southeast Asia's age of commerce

The Myth of the Lazy Native is an early example of a systematic critique of colonial knowledge

were merely dormant and did not in any way contribute to the growth of knowledge

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He examines poetry’s greatest haters (beginning with Plato’s famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets

but a hopeful leap into the void

while Volume II includes the commentary from Chapter nineteen