A Jew On Java, A Model Malay Rabbi And A Tamil torah Scholar: Representations Of Abdullah Ibnu Salam in The Book Of One Thousand Questions

摘要

Though Jewish communities were traditionally absent from the social landscape of the Indonesian-Malay world and the Tamil land of southeast India, and Jews were rarely encountered across these regions, they consistently appeared in religious and literary sources and played important roles in depictions of early Islam in Javanese, Tamil and Malay. Despite a physical absence their image - at times negative but often complex and ambiguous - was certainly present. The Book of One Thousand Questions provides us with insight into the multifaceted perceptions of the Jews across these Muslim societies.