February 25, 2022

The Manuscripts of La Ode Zaenu and Buton’s connections to the wider Islamic world

Andrew Peacock, University of St Andrews[1] The library of La Ode Zaenu gives a unique window into the intellectual culture of this part of Indonesia, and provides an interesting complement the better known collection in Bau-Bau of Abdul Mulku Zahari. The latter was catalogued some time ago (Achadiati Ikram et al, Katalog Naskah Buton: Koleksi Abdul Mulku Zahari (Jakarta, 2010) and has been partially digitised by a project in the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme. In contrast, the La Ode Zaenu collection remained almost totally unknown to the outside world until the work of DREAMSEA in digitising it. Even a […]
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