Acknowledgements List of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction: Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies  Majid Daneshgar and Ervan Nurtawab Part 1 Manuscripts and Inscriptions 1 Qurʾān Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British Collections  Annabel T. Gallop 2 Arabic Texts in Buton in the Light of the La Ode Zaenu Manuscript Collection  Andrew Peacock 3 A 15th-century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fansuri in Southeast Asia  Majid Daneshgar, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Masykur Syafruddin and R. Michael Feener Part 2 Qurʾānic Commentaries, Translation and Theological Concepts 4 Eight Shades of Ibn Kathīr: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qurʾānic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian Translations  Johanna Pink 5 An Unfaithful Translation for the Faithful: Indonesian Islamic Gatekeepers on the Free Poetic Acehnese Translation of the Qurʾān by Teungku Haji Mahjiddin Jusuf (1918–1994)  Edwin P. Wieringa 6 An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara  Majid Daneshgar 7 Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjumān al-Mustafīd’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of God  Han Hsien Liew 8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia  Farouk Yahya Part 3 Critical Reading of Identity and Culture 9 Is Jawi Islamic?  Mulaika Hijjas 10 Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic Interventions  Khairudin Aljunied 11 Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African Son  Michael Laffan 12 An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly Narratives  Julian Millie Peter G. Riddell: Scholarly Publications Index