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Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism

Historicism, history, and literature are intertwined. However, some scholars believe that Malay historiographical texts are ahistorical texts. This study focuses on the historical aspects found in the Sulalatus Salatin manuscript. The objective of this study is to identify the historical aspects of...

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Main Authors: Abu Bakar, Roslina, Mamat, Siti Fatimah, Chong, Seng Tong, Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Zufrie, Abdul Hamid, Norashikin
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Published: Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2022
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spelling my.upm.eprints.1025432023-10-17T06:37:35Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102543/ Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism Abu Bakar, Roslina Mamat, Siti Fatimah Chong, Seng Tong Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Zufrie Abdul Hamid, Norashikin Historicism, history, and literature are intertwined. However, some scholars believe that Malay historiographical texts are ahistorical texts. This study focuses on the historical aspects found in the Sulalatus Salatin manuscript. The objective of this study is to identify the historical aspects of Sulalatus Salatin and prove the extent of the truth of those historical aspects. To achieve this objective, the methods used are archival analysis, textual analysis and content analysis. The results show that Sulalatus Salalatin is a manuscript that is recognized as a text in the form of history. This study uses the theory of New Historicism introduced by (Greenblatt, 2005; Gallagher & Greenblatt, 2000) in analysing the historical texts. The study concludes that the aspects of historiography found in Malay historiographical texts contain historical truths. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2022-09-16 Article PeerReviewed Abu Bakar, Roslina and Mamat, Siti Fatimah and Chong, Seng Tong and Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Zufrie and Abdul Hamid, Norashikin (2022) Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society, 12 (9). 1075 - 1086. ISSN 2222-6990 http://hrmars.com/index.php/pages/detail/IJARBSS 10.6007/IJARBSS/v12-i9/14451
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description Historicism, history, and literature are intertwined. However, some scholars believe that Malay historiographical texts are ahistorical texts. This study focuses on the historical aspects found in the Sulalatus Salatin manuscript. The objective of this study is to identify the historical aspects of Sulalatus Salatin and prove the extent of the truth of those historical aspects. To achieve this objective, the methods used are archival analysis, textual analysis and content analysis. The results show that Sulalatus Salalatin is a manuscript that is recognized as a text in the form of history. This study uses the theory of New Historicism introduced by (Greenblatt, 2005; Gallagher & Greenblatt, 2000) in analysing the historical texts. The study concludes that the aspects of historiography found in Malay historiographical texts contain historical truths.
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author Abu Bakar, Roslina
Mamat, Siti Fatimah
Chong, Seng Tong
Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Zufrie
Abdul Hamid, Norashikin
spellingShingle Abu Bakar, Roslina
Mamat, Siti Fatimah
Chong, Seng Tong
Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Zufrie
Abdul Hamid, Norashikin
Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism
author_facet Abu Bakar, Roslina
Mamat, Siti Fatimah
Chong, Seng Tong
Abd. Rahman, Ahmad Zufrie
Abdul Hamid, Norashikin
author_sort Abu Bakar, Roslina
title Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism
title_short Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism
title_full Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism
title_fullStr Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism
title_full_unstemmed Unravelling the truth and demystifying the Malay civilisation: reading Sulalatus Salatin with new historicism
title_sort unravelling the truth and demystifying the malay civilisation: reading sulalatus salatin with new historicism
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
publishDate 2022
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/102543/
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