Decoding Sejarah Melayu The Hidden History Of Ancient Singapore

Author : Jason Heng
Publisher : Jason Heng
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Decoding Sejarah Melayu: The Hidden History of Ancient Singapore written by Jason Heng and published by Jason Heng. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows Singapore as the Lion City and the story behind of a Palembang prince, Sang Nila Utama, sighting a lion on this island that was first published 200 years ago in John Leyden's translation of the Malay classic Sejarah Melayu. But few people have actually read the Sejarah Melayu to realise the fairytale-like claims of Singapore's supposed medieval founder as a descendant of Alexander the Great, and the son of an Indian king who tried to conquer China and a princess from underwater; or that the creature he purportedly saw was not described as a lion, but a chimera with a red body, black head, white breast, and was a little larger than a he-goat. And barely anyone remembers the days when respectable residents of Singapore scoffed at suggestions that Singapore's name has anything to do with the Felis Leo. Decoding Sejarah Melayu daringly challenges the assumption that the Sejarah Melayu records Singapore's pre-modern past, which has been held since Sir Stamford Raffles arrived in 1819 and declared himself at the "ancient Capital of the Malay kings". It seeks to grasp what is the Sejarah Melayu and how its accounts of Singapore as Temasek and Singapura were written, critically re-examines key historical text such as the Malay epic Hikayat Hang Tuah, Tomé Pires' Suma Oriental and 14th century Chinese travelogue Daoyi Zhilue, and makes an expansive study into other sources in Malay, Javanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Siamese, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, French, and the English language to discover clues to ancient Singapore's long hidden past. This is a book that will profoundly change understandings of Singapore's history and identity.

Author : Chong Guan Kwa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Singapore, a 700-year History written by Chong Guan Kwa and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kwa Chong Guan
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
ISBN 13 : 9814951420
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book 1819 & Before written by Kwa Chong Guan and published by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. This book was released on 2021-04-02 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays published here began as a series of lectures commemorating the bicentennial of Thomas Stamford Raffles’s establishment of a British Station in 1819. The essays draw on thirty-five years of archaeological investigations on and around Fort Canning, new readings of the Malay Annals, early Chinese records reporting Singapore, and the Portuguese and Dutch records to probe and challenge our understanding of Singapore’s history before Raffles. Altogether, these essays suggest that Singapore had a pre-1819 past that was deeply connected to the millennium-long maritime history of the Straits of Melaka and its links to the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The History of Singapore written by and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John N. Miksic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Early Singapore, 1300s-1819 written by John N. Miksic and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hussein Alatas (Syed)
Publisher : Centre for Research
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Malays/Muslims and the History of Singapore written by Hussein Alatas (Syed) and published by Centre for Research. This book was released on 1998 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : N. J. Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A History of Malaysia and Singapore written by N. J. Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Joseph RYAN
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780196380803
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Making of Modern Malaysia and Singapore. A History from Earliest Times to 1966. (Fourth Edition, Revised.). written by Neil Joseph RYAN and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Constance Mary Turnbull
Publisher : Allen & Unwin Australia
ISBN 13 : 9780043640258
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book A History of Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei written by Constance Mary Turnbull and published by Allen & Unwin Australia. This book was released on 1989 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tommy Christomy
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1921313706
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Signs of the Wali written by Tommy Christomy and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis is a study of traditional narratives which are recited and received both by villagers and pilgrims in regard to the local pilgrimage (ziarah) tradition in Pamijahan, particularly at Shaykh Abdul Muhyi's sacred site. The narratives will be examined as part of the popular beliefs of Priangan Timur or the eastern part of West Java. Locating them in the wider context of Sundanese oral and written traditions, my investigation will illuminate the nature and function of such traditions in the particular case of Pamijahan. The research will elucidate the role of the kuncen, the custodians of sacred sites, as guides and spiritual brokers who maintain the narratives. It will also be important to investigate the villagers' as well as visitors' view of the kuncen in regard to local pilgrimage. The study will also enhance comparative studies concerned with networks of holy men or saints (wali) on the island of Java (Pemberton 1994; Fox 1991: 20). I want to argue that people respond to, and participate in, saint veneration on pragmatic grounds. However, these grounds are subject to interpretation and contestation in time and space. In redefining their narratives, various individuals, such as custodians, Sufis, and even to some extent government functionaries, are considered to be authoritative persons by virtue of their capacity to conduct and manipulate narratives. As this argument develops, it will be important to understand the modes of signification in the village."--Provided by publisher.