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" Chronogram, Muslim Southeast Asia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Ricklefs, M. C.
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AL
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English
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1061267
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ALei1664
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Ricklefs, M. C.
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Chronogram, Muslim Southeast Asia - 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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(675 words)
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The use of chronogram s in Muslim Southeast Asia is most prominent in Javanese culture. In Modern Javanese, chronograms are called sangkala/sengkala (or candra sengkala ), the word sangkala meaning “chronology” or “chronogram.” Pre-Islamic, Old Javanese works use the Sanskrit word śakakāla , referring to the Śaka era and meaning also “chronogram” (Zoetmulder and Robson, 2:1603). In Javanese, chronograms consist of four words, each word—rather than each letter of a word, as in the ḥisāb al-jummal and taʾrīkh systems—having its own numerical value. They are read
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Islam.
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ALei1664.pdf
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