Alasan penulis memilih naskah ini ialah karena beberapa hal. Pertama, dibanding teks yang lain dalam naskah ML 420, hikayat tentang Samud ini lebih lengkap dan jelas. Kedua, ternyata kajian tentang Samud Ibnu Salam sudah banyak dilakukan, namun rata-rata naskah berbahasa Jawa, berkasara Jawa Kuno/ Hanacaraka dan Pegon, sedangkan bahasa Melayu dengan aksara Jawi belum ditemukan. Ketiga, teks ini…
This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life. Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons. First, the book is co-authored by scholars from two different cultures (Middle East and West). As a result, the interpretations of dignity cove…
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…