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TheSyair Tabutof Encik Ali

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: This is an annotated transcription and translation of the Syair Tabut (Poem of the Tomb Effigies) of Encik Ali, a Malay-language, Jawi-script syair account of the Muharram commemorations of 1864 at Singapore. The only known part lithograph and part manuscript of this text, on which this edition is based, is held in the library of Leiden University, shelfmark Kl. 191. For a full discussion of this Syair, see the accompanying article by Lunn and Byl (2017).

Source: Indonesia and the Malay World

DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2017.1374012

Authors: Julia Byl, Raja Iskandar bin Raja Halid, David Lunn, Jenny McCallum

Institutions: University of Alberta, Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, SOAS University of London, The University of Melbourne

Language: English

Topic: Linguistic, Cultural, and Literary Studies

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: King's College London, Universiteit Leiden, European Research Council

Awards: G7220192448, G921248638