From Codicology to Technology: Islamic Manuscripts and Their Place in Scholarship
Edited by Stefanie Brinkmann and Beate Wiesmüller
Published by Frank & Timme GmbH, 2009
ISBN 9783865961716

This collection of articles, an edition of lectures presented at the 2007 Congress of German Oriental Studies, discusses the variety of aspects involved in dealing with Islamic manuscripts and emphasises their importance as sources of historical knowledge. The articles cover research on single manuscripts as well as collections, and address the problems of editing as well as cataloguing and digitisation.
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Sufi Saints of Sumatra - Awliya' Sumatra
Irina R. Katkova and Dr. Pramono
Academy of Culture's Research, St. Petersburg, 2009
ISBN: 978-5-903931-34-7

This monograph deals with the spiritual tradition of Islam in Indonesia, focusing on the manuscript heritage of its awliya', or Sufi saints. The majority of the text is a transliteration of a hagiographical treatise by Shaikh al-Khatib , a contemporary Sufi sheikh from Western Sumatra who copied manuscripts and wrote in Jawi until his death in 2006. This is prefaced by a survey of the peculiarities of historical and contemporary Islam in Sumatra, and notes on the text by the two authors.