Old Muslim calendars of Southeast Asia by Ian Proudfoot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Proudfoot, I. (Ian), 1946-

Series:

Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia 17.

Handbook of Oriental studies. Section three, South-East Asia, Handbuch der Orientalistik 0169-9571 ; v. 17 =

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic calendar--Southeast Asia.

Islamic calendar.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 135 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.

Summary:

It has been said that \'a modern arrogance has blocked our access to the history of the Muslim calendar in Southeast Asia\'. Without at least the outlines of that history, we simply do not understand the basis of dates found in Malay sources. Also, without a history of Malay calendars we are denied an understanding of the context from which the Javanese Muslim calendar arose. This volume, the result of combining empirical evidence with a sound understanding of the structural requirements of calendar-making, and of the mechanisms through which these needs could be met, for the first time explains how these old octaval calendars actually worked. It traces the history of Muslim calendars in Southeast Asia, and attempts to put them into their historical and cultural context. Understanding the old calendars will at last throw light on a number of essential aspects of older Malay science and culture. An accompanying interactive CD-ROM presents the reader with a tool for converting Malay and Javanese dates, with access to the range of variant calendars.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

The Muslim calendar

Octaval calendars in operation

Case studies of divergence

Mapping calendar styles

The Javanese branch

Dates that do not conform

Currency of the octaval calendar

Epilogue

Abjad values

Proleptic modulations and calibrations

Malay accounts of the octaval calendar

Octaval calendars outside Southeast Asia

Converting dates

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-130) and index.

ISBN:

90-474-1111-0

OCLC:

71146634

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047411116 DOI