The Turkic-Turkish Theme in Traditional Malay Literature : Imagining the Other to Empower the Self (Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde)

By studying the portrayal of the Turkic peoples and the Ottoman Turks in a wide range of Malay literary texts of the 14th-19th centuries, this book reveals how this theme informed the religious and political ideals and political mythology of Malay society.