Jawi Literature:

• A Concise Handlist of Jawi Authors and Their Works (version 1.9). This is a pdf file of 74 pages (approximately 362 KB). It contains a list of works by authors from Southeast Asia who wrote in Malay or in Arabic on traditional Islamic subjects. These works are often referred to as kitab jawi or kitab kuning and most of them were written in Mecca where their authors studied and later taught. An index of titles has been added to this latest version of the Handlist, and it has also been made available as a paperback book from www.lulu.com for the cost of printing and binding. Version 1.8, with no index of titles, is still available as an ArabTeX source file as well as a plain-text file.
   
  
• Hukum Akal. This is a short Jawi (old Malay) text copied from an introductory gloss in the margin of Muhammad Mukhtar ibn `Utarid al-Jawi al-Batawi al-Buquri's Kitab Usul al-Din. The file is in html format with utf-8 encoding. It is best viewed with Internet Explorer in Windows and with Konqueror in Linux. Mozilla, Foxfire, and Epiphany do not handle the Jawi characters correctly. In any case you will need an Arabic Unicode font such as Arial, Lateef, or Scheherezade. If you have an Arabic keyboard and preferably one modified to include the extra Jawi characters you should be able to search the text with the "find" command on your browser.
   
  
• A Famous Pantun. Victor Hugo popularized the pantun or pantoum when in 1829 he published Ernest Fouinet's French translation of this poem in the Notes at the end of Les Orientales. The original Malay text along with an English translation was published in 1812 by William Marsden in his A Grammar of the Malayan Language. This is a pdf file made with Klaus Lagally's ArabTeX. It includes Marsden's original Jawi text of the pantun, a transliteration into modern Malay spelling, Marsden's English translation and Fouinet's French translation. For information on the relationship between the Malay pantun and the Western pantoum see the article "Jatuh ke Laut Menjadi Pulau: Mengamati Hubungan Pantun Melayu Dan Pantoum Barat" by Md. Salleh Yaapar, located at pantun.usm.my/makalah4-1.asp.
   
  
• Two Arabic Manuscripts in the Handwriting of Syeikh Yusuf al-Taj. Two Arabic manuscripts copied by Shaykh Yusuf al-Taj during his residence in the Middle East have survived to the present day. They are Sprenger 677 in the Berlin Library and Yahuda 3872 in the Garrett Collection in the Princeton University Library.
   
  
• A List of Malay Manuscript Catalogues.
   
  
• Links to Sites on Jawi Literature:
   
  
  • Malay Concordance Project (Australian National University)
  • Malay Manuscript Pages
  • Khazanah Fathaniyah
  • Jawi Study Group (Japan)
  • The Institute of the Malay World and Civilization (www.malaycivilization.com)
  • Publications of Martin van Bruinessen
  • EJawi.net
  • Komuniti EJawi
  • Indonesian Islamic Philology (Oman Fathurahman)
  • Convention on Jawi Writing, 6-8 November 1991, Kuala Lumpur
  • Kurnia Ilham (Mohd Zaidi Abdullah)
  • Syarikat Jaffar Rawas, Snd. Brh., Kota Bharu, Malaysia (An excellent bookstore for Jawi books)
     
    

Archived Material:

• My Original Web Page. This site is now completely out of date. It may nevertheless prove useful for people who are still using old software in old computers. It contains some samples of Arabic html files which can be used for testing various Internet browsers. It also contains a sample of an ArabTeX file showing how Arabic poetry can be formatted in two columns. There is also information on using Arabic and Persian on a Linux box.
   
  
• My Old Anonymous FTP Site. The files here are also for the most part out of date, but some of the information on character sets and conversion to and from various Arabic and Persian code pages may be of interest to some. There are also some Arabic texts in various encodings.
   
  
• al-Qur'an al-Karim. This is a zipped package containing the complete text of the Qur'an in both ISO 8859-6 encoding (quran-8859-6.txt) and in UTF-8 encoding (quran-utf8.txt) as well as Pickthall's English translation of the Qur'an (pickthall.txt). These are all plain-text files. The Arabic text of the Qur'an is unvocalized and in modern Arabic orthography (rasm imla'i) rather than traditional Qur'anic orthography (rasm `uthmani). The text is therefore easy to search because there is no need to vocalize the words or phrases being searched for. It is also easy to copy verses and to paste them into other files.
   
  The original source of the Arabic text as well as Pickthall's translation is apparently the Islamic Computing Centre in London. The files seem to have been uploaded in 1993 to a number of ftp sites by Mohammad Jamil Sawar, CBLU, Leeds University, Leeds LS2 9JT, U.K. (sawar@cbl.leeds.ac.uk). See the two files sawarmessage1.txt and sawarmesasge2.txt.
   
  Unfortunately, the digitized Qur'anic text has a number of minor errors. These are listed in the corrections.txt file. Make sure, therefore, that you check the Qur'anic text against these corrections or against a printed mushaf.
   
  For other digitized versions of the Qur'an in MS Word (.doc) format go to http://qurankareem.info/. To view these files you will need Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer. You may also have to download some Arabic fonts. These texts of the Qur'an are fully vocalized, so if you want to search for words and phrases you will have to vocalize the words you search for. You can, however, easily copy verses and paste them into other files.
   
  

Debian Linux:

• Enabling Arabic-Script Languages on Debian Linux 3.1 (Sarge). A howto for those who want to use Arabic, Persian, and other Arabic-script languages on Debian Linux.
   
  

Arabic Transliteration Systems:

• My Own Ascii (7-bit) System.
• Abdelsalam Heddaya's Qalam System of Transliteration.
• Transliteration System of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
• Transliteration System of the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
• Library of Congress Transliteration Tables.
• Knut Vikør's Jaghbub fonts for Arabic transliteration.
   
  

Courses:

• Course Materials for Near East 420: Islamic Theological Literature.
   
  

Lectures:

• Lecture on Islamic Theology.
   
  
• Lecture on Islamic Philosophy.
   
  

Unpublished Papers, etc.:

• The Stations of the Heart. An extract from the translation of Bayan al-Farq, a Sufi work attributed to al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi. In PDF format. The full translation was published in Three Early Sufi Texts by Nicholas Heer and Kenneth Honerkamp, Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2003.
   
  
• Substitute page for Three Early Sufi Texts. Pages 26 and 27 of the published work have some strange typesetting mistakes. A single passage of several lines is repeated six times. This page, in PDF format, can be downloaded and substituted for those two pages.
   
  
• Al-Abhari and al-Maybudi on God's Existence. This is a translation in PDF format of the first six sections of Chapter Two of al-Maybudi's commentary on al-Abhari's Hidayat al-Hikmah. These sections all have to do with issues pertaining to the Necessary Existent's existence. The first section presents a proof for the existence of the Necessary Existent. The second and third sections deal with the question of whether the Necessary Existent's existence (wujud), necessity (wujub) and individuation (ta`ayyun) are identical with Its essence or additional to it. The fourth section takes up the question of whether there can be more than one necessary existent. The fifth section deals with the question of whether it is possible for a necessary being to change. And finally the sixth and last of the translated sections discusses the question of whether the existence of the Necessary Existent is of the same nature as the existence of contingent beings.
   
  
• Al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi's Kitab al-`Ilal
   
  
• `Abd al-Rahman al-Jami's Argument for the Existence of Existence
   
  
• Rational and Traditional Proofs in Islamic Theology
   
  
• The Proof for the Truthfulness of the Prophet
   
  
• Al-Jami on Whether an Eternal Effect Can Result from an Agent with Choice
   
  
• The Sufi Position with Respect to the Problem of Universals
   
  
• Ibn Sina's Justification of the Use of Induction in Demonstation
   
  
• A Review of Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Islamic Intellectual Tradition in Persia. Edited by Mehdi Amin Razavi. (Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996).
   
  
• Some Papers Pertaining to al-Muntada al-Adabi in the Library of the Hoover Institution

Links to Sites with Searchable Arabic Texts:

• www.muhaddith.org (Islamic texts)
• www.al-islam.com (Islamic texts)
• www.al-waraq.net (literary texts)
• www.gooh.net/alkotob/ (Islamic texts)
• arabic.islamicweb.com/Books/ al-Maktabah al-Islamiyah al-Electroniyah (Islamic Texts)
• islamicworldnews-islamicstudies.blogspot.com (Christian and Islamic texts)
   
  

Curriculum Vitae

• vita.pdf