TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gallop,Annabel Teh
TI  - Malay Seals from the Islamic World of Southeast Asia: Content, Form, Context, Catalogue 
SN  - 9789813250864
U1  - 737.60959 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Singapore : 
PB  - NUS Press in association with The British Library
KW  - Seals (Numismatics)
KW  - History
KW  - Southeast Asia
KW  - Southeast Asia Inscriptions, Arabic
KW  - Inscriptions, Malay
KW  - Southeast Asia Islam
KW  - Malay Archipelago
KW  - Islam
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Bibliographical references (pages 725-736) and index
N2  - Seals make up an important element in the manuscript and literary culture of maritime Southeast Asia, a world long connected by political, economic, and cultural networks, the lingua franca of the Malay language, and the faith of Islam. They constitute a treasure trove of data that can throw light on myriad aspects of the history of the Malay world, ranging from the nature of kingship, the administrative structure of states, the biographies of major personalities and the form of Islamic thought embraced, as well as on developments in the art and material culture of the region.
This important reference work describes and analyses the Malay sealing tradition, carefully cataloguing more than 2000 seals sourced from collections worldwide, primarily seal impressions stamped in lampblack, ink or wax on manuscript letters, treaties and other documents, but including some seal matrices made of silver, brass or stone. These Malay seals originate from the present-day territories of Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore and Indonesia and the southern parts of Thailand and Cambodia, and the Philippines, and date from the second half of the 16th century to the early twentieth century. Complete transcriptions and translations of the Jawi inscriptions are provided, bringing the seals to light as objects of literary and art historical analysis, and key resources for an understanding of the Malay Islamic world of Southeast Asia in the early modern period
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