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- Title
ONOMASTICS, AND TAXONOMIES OF BELONGING IN THE MALAY MUSLIM WORLD.
- Authors
ROFF, WILLIAM R.
- Abstract
The article discusses the important cultural links that can be drawn from the study of Muslim names and naming systems to social, political, economic, and religious institutions in Islamic Southeast Asia. The significance that may be attached to Muslim naming practices posited by Richard W. Bulliet, who suggested the diagnostic importance of name-giving in understanding the rate and extent of conversion to Islam and the creation of Muslim societies, is examined. The creation of the Onomasticon Arabicum to promote onomastic study of bibliographical dictionaries is discussed. The elementary structure of Islamic names is described.
- Subjects
MALAY Archipelago; SOUTHEAST Asia; ISLAMIC personal names; ONOMASTICS; MUSLIM converts; ISLAMIC customs &; practices; MUSLIM history; TAXONOMY; BULLIET, Richard W.
- Publication
Journal of Islamic Studies, 2007, Vol 18, Issue 3, p386
- ISSN
0955-2340
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jis/etm031