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Presents the most complete Persian edition and the first known English translation of the
Durr al-Majālis
About the author
Majid Daneshgar is Associate Professor of Area Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University, Japan. He is the former Munby Fellow in global bibliography at Cambridge University Library in association with St John's College, University of Cambridge, and George Grey Scholar at Auckland Libraries, New Zealand. He has frequently published on Islamic studies, orientalism, Persianate-Malay literature and manuscript studies. His main monographs are
Studying the Qur'an in the Muslim Academy (Oxford University Press, 2020),
Tantawi Jawhari and the Qur'an (Routledge, 2018; Arabic translation 2023), and several co-edited volumes such as
Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies (Brill, 2023),
Islam and Science in the Future (Zygon, 2020),
Deconstructing Islamic Studies (Ilex-Harvard University Press, 2020),
Islamic Studies Today (Brill, 2017) and
The Qur'an in the Malay-Indonesian World (Routledge, 2016). He was also awarded the Marie Curie Fellowship of the European Union, the Best Publication Prize 2022 (FRIAS), and nominated for the Most Inclusive Teacher Award at the University of Otago, New Zealand in 2015.
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Presents the most complete Persian edition and the first known English translation of the Durr al-Maj?lis
