A History of Classical Malay Literature

SKU: R12 | Year: 1996 | Pages: 266

Contents

• Author’s Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction

1. The Malay Language and Literature
2. Malay Folk Liteature: - (a) Mythology, Riddles, Proverbs and Clock-Stories; (b) Beast Fables and the Hikayat Pelandok Jenaka (c) Farcical Tales and the Hikayat Mahashodhak (d) Folk Romances
3. The Hindu Period: - (a) Indian eprics (b) Shadow-play plots founded on the Indian epics (c) Romances of the Hindu period
4. A Javanese Element: - Tales from the Majapahit Shadow-plays, and the Hikayat Hang Tuah
5. From Hinuism to Islam: - Malay romances of the transition
6. The Coming of Islam and Islamic literature
7. Muslim Legends: - (a) Pre-Islamic Heroes, Iskandar Dhu’l-Karnaian, Amir Hamza, Raja Jumjumah, Saif Dhu’l-Yazan, Ibrahim ibn Adham (b) Tales of the Prophet (c) Adventures of People about Prophet, Muhammad Hanafiah, Tamim ad-Dari, Sama’un, Abu-Samah (d) the Malayo-Muslim story of raja Handak
8. Cycles of Tales from Muslim Sources: -Hikayat Bayan Budiman, Hikayat Kalila dan Damina, The Bakhtiar cycle (Hikayat Bakhtiar and Hikayat Golam)
9. Muslim Theology, Jurisprudence and History
10. Malay Histories
11. Digests of Law
12. Munshi ‘Abdu’llah
13. Malay Poetry-Rhythmical verse; the Sha’ir; the Pantun

• Appendix – Outlines of the following Malay works
  • Hikayat Pandawa Jaya
  • Hikayat Sang Boma (or Sang Samba)
  • Hikayat Chekel-Waneng-Pati
  • Hikayat Ahmad Muhammad
  • Hikayat Shah-i Mardan
  • Hikayat Amir Hamza (part)
  • Hikayat Muhammad Hanafiah
  • Hikayat Saif Dhu’l Yazan
  • Hikayat Sama’un
  • Hikayat Raja Handak
  • Hikayat Bakhtiar
  • Hikayat Kalila dan Damina
  • Taj a’s-salatin
• Bibliography
• Index

Summary

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