TY - JOUR
T1 - Prophets, pegon, and piety The Javanese Layang Ambiya
AU - Ricci, Ronit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The tales of the prophets are among the most popular textual traditions across the Islamic world and Java proves no exception. Beginning with the first human and first prophet Nabi Adam, these often vast collections recount the biographies of all those viewed as prophets in Islam, ultimately leading up to the “seal of the prophets”, Muhammad. Many manuscripts of this genre were composed and copied in Javanese, in different periods, locales, and milieus, opening a window to how these core Islamic stories and the messages they carry were understood and transmitted in Java. The essay explores one example, a Layang Ambiya composed in the pĕsantren milieu in the mid-nineteenth century and written in pegon (MSB L12), currently housed in the Museum Sonobudoyo, Yogyakarta.
AB - The tales of the prophets are among the most popular textual traditions across the Islamic world and Java proves no exception. Beginning with the first human and first prophet Nabi Adam, these often vast collections recount the biographies of all those viewed as prophets in Islam, ultimately leading up to the “seal of the prophets”, Muhammad. Many manuscripts of this genre were composed and copied in Javanese, in different periods, locales, and milieus, opening a window to how these core Islamic stories and the messages they carry were understood and transmitted in Java. The essay explores one example, a Layang Ambiya composed in the pĕsantren milieu in the mid-nineteenth century and written in pegon (MSB L12), currently housed in the Museum Sonobudoyo, Yogyakarta.
KW - Islam
KW - Pegon
KW - Prophets
KW - Pĕsantren
KW - Script
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85127473344&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.17510/WACANA.V22I3.1081
DO - 10.17510/WACANA.V22I3.1081
M3 - Article
SN - 1411-2272
VL - 22
SP - 617
EP - 630
JO - Wacana
JF - Wacana
IS - 3
ER -