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Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition (2024)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2024). Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition. Indonesia and the Malay World, 52(152), 51-75. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2024.2307733

This article examines two objects of Malay royal regalia: the Perak betel-box known as the puan naga taru and the Riau emblem known as the cogan. Drawing on Hobsbawm and Ranger’s articulation of ‘invented tradition’, and on Amoroso’s of ‘traditionali... Read More about Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition.

The Poet of Hope (2024)
Thesis
Koch, S. The Poet of Hope. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis analyses contemporary poetry focusing on the theme of migration from a woman’s perspective. The poems are interpreted using close-reading methodologies, focusing on selected motifs such as hope and nostalgia. The thesis will trace innovat... Read More about The Poet of Hope.

'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell. (2024)
Thesis
Taylor, L. M. 'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

My thesis explores and analyses the lived experiences of British women in the colonies of Malaya and Burma during the interwar years (1918 to 1942). Although much has been written about British women in India both before and during the Raj, those who... Read More about 'Not a bit like "Rain" or "The Letter"'British women in Malaya and Burma between the wars and the pejorative portraits in the works of W. Somerset Maugham and George Orwell..

Marsden's Malay Manuscripts: Reassessing a Colonial Collection (2022)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2023). Marsden's Malay Manuscripts: Reassessing a Colonial Collection. Philological Encounters, 8(1), 38-72. https://doi.org/10.1163/24519197-bja10037

This article investigates European collecting of Malay manuscripts during the colonial era to address two inter-related questions: was this collecting instrumental in destroying the Malay manuscript tradition, and are colonial collections accurate re... Read More about Marsden's Malay Manuscripts: Reassessing a Colonial Collection.

The trials of Rābi‘a al-‘Adawīyya in the Malay world: the woman Sufi in Hikayat Rabi‘ah. (2018)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2018). The trials of Rābi‘a al-‘Adawīyya in the Malay world: the woman Sufi in Hikayat Rabi‘ah. BKI - Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde, 174(2-3), 216-243. https://doi.org/10.1163/22134379-17402025

Sufism is often taken to be the form of Islamic practice that was most welcoming to women. Similarly, Southeast Asia is commonly said to be characterised by unusually high levels of female autonomy, relative to the surrounding regions. This article d... Read More about The trials of Rābi‘a al-‘Adawīyya in the Malay world: the woman Sufi in Hikayat Rabi‘ah..

"Penghulu segala perempuan": Fatima in Malay didactic texts for women (2015)
Book Chapter
Hijjas, M. (2015). "Penghulu segala perempuan": Fatima in Malay didactic texts for women. In C. Formichi, & R. M. Feener (Eds.), Shi'ism in South East Asia: 'Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions (79-98). Hurst and Co. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof%3Aoso/9780190264017.003.0006

The Malay manuscript tradition includes a number of didactic texts for women setting out their duties as Muslim wives, with the Prophet's daughter Fatima the most frequently encountered paragon of correct behaviour. Often called the “leader of all wo... Read More about "Penghulu segala perempuan": Fatima in Malay didactic texts for women.

The Perak Regalia: Replicas and Originals. (2014)
Book Chapter
Hijjas, M. (2014). The Perak Regalia: Replicas and Originals. In E. Tan (Ed.), Come Cannibalise Us Why Don't You? (119-120). National University of Singapore Museum

Guides for Mrs Nawawi: two nineteenth-century Malay reformist texts on the duties of wives (2013)
Journal Article
Hijjas, M. (2013). Guides for Mrs Nawawi: two nineteenth-century Malay reformist texts on the duties of wives. Indonesia and the Malay World, 41(120), 215-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/13639811.2013.793030

This article explores how texts circulating in the Malay world on the subject of the religious obligations of women reflect currents of Islamic reform transmitted across the Indian Ocean. The focus is on Abdullah b. Abdul Rahim’s Kitab muhimmah and R... Read More about Guides for Mrs Nawawi: two nineteenth-century Malay reformist texts on the duties of wives.