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" Centhini, Serat - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ricklefs, M. C.
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AL
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English
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1061230
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ALei1627
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Ricklefs, M. C.
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Centhini, Serat - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Ricklefs, M. C.
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,291 words)
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Serat Centhini (“The book of Centhini”) is an encyclopaedic Javanese work describing romantic adventures, social life, and religious ideas in Islamic Java, known in a text written in 1815 on behalf of the crown prince of Surakarta, who was to become Susuhunan Pakubuwana V (r. 1820–3). The work consists of 722 cantos, comprising something over 200,000 lines of Javanese verse. Portions of the larger text are found in manuscripts with varying titles (such as Suluk Tambangraras ) but the conventional title, Centhini , derives from the name of one of
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Islam.
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ALei1627.pdf
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