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id	eprints-3941
recordtype	eprints
institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	It is common knowledge that from the early centuries AD to the nineteenth century India remained an important source of inspiration for creators of traditional Malay culture and Malay men of letters. However, if literary ties between Hindu India and the Malay world, both direct and mediated by Javanese literature, have frequently drawn the attention of researchers, creative stimuli that came to the Malays from Muslim India remain inadequately studied. Yet the role of these stimuli, radiating from major centres of the Muslim, Persianate, India such as Bengal, Gujarat, Deccan, and the Coromandel coast, in the development of Malay literary culture was by no means inferior to the inspiration originating from Hindu India. In this context, cultural and literary contacts of the Sultanate of Aceh with the Mughal Empire in the seventeenth century are a particularly interesting and challenging subject
format	Journal Article
author	Braginsky, Vladimir
author_facet	Braginsky, Vladimir
authorStr	Braginsky, Vladimir
author_letter	Braginsky, Vladimir
title	Structure, Date and Sources of Hikayat Aceh Revisited. The Problem of Mughal-Malay Literary Ties
publisher	Brill
publishDate	2006
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/3941/