Al-'Arābīyah and Basa Sunda: Ideologies of Translation and Interpretation among the Muslim of West Java
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2000), Articles
Vol. 7 No. 3 (2000)

Al-'Arābīyah and Basa Sunda: Ideologies of Translation and Interpretation among the Muslim of West Java

Articles
https://doi.org/10.15408/sdi.v7i3.702
  • Benjamin G. Zimmer
Benjamin G. Zimmer
PDF

How to Cite

Zimmer, B. G. (2014). Al-’Arābīyah and Basa Sunda: Ideologies of Translation and Interpretation among the Muslim of West Java. Studia Islamika, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.15408/sdi.v7i3.702
ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver

Download Citation

Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX

Abstract

This article reflects on these questions as they relate to the Sundanese-speaking population of western Java, Indonesia's second largest ethnic group. "Sundaneseness" is to a great extent defined by vernacular usage of the local language, basa Sunda, which is related to but distinct from Javanese, Indonesian, and the other Austronesian languages of the region. Speakers of Sundanese currently number more than 30 million, rivaling the populations of such countries as Canada, Morocco, and Kenya (and twice the population of their erstwhile colonizers, the Netherlands), yet Western scholarly literature on "Java" has paid them scant attention. Ethnographic studies of the island's Muslim communities, from Geertz's Religion of Java to Woodward's Islam in Java, have been similarly skewed towards the dominant Javanese ethno linguistic group inhabiting central and eastern Java.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v7i3.702
https://doi.org/10.15408/sdi.v7i3.702
PDF

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.