The Stichting De Goeje — in English, the De Goeje Foundation; in French, La Fondation De Goeje — is a Dutch scholarly foundation that publishes the series Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje (“Publications of the De Goeje Foundation”), of which the 1955 facsimile edition of the two Malay treatises of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī by P. Voorhoeve is No. 16. The foundation is named for the Dutch Arabist Michael Jan de Goeje (1836–1909), professor of Arabic at Leiden, and is based at Leiden. The Secretary of the foundation is to be addressed, as Voorhoeve’s edition records, at Rijnsburgerweg 101, Leiden, the Netherlands.
The Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje
The series Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje — published at Leiden by E. J. Brill — is one of the principal series of editions of Arabic and Islamic texts in European scholarship. The series includes editions of Arabic texts (such as the Hamāsah of Abū Tammām, the Fākhir of al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Salama, and the Taʾrīkh al-Mustaṣṭāfī of Ibn al-Mujāwir), translations and studies (such as the Streitschrift des Ghazālī gegen die Bāṭiniyya-Sekte by Ignaz Goldziher), and editions of Malay texts (such as Voorhoeve’s edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises, No. 16 of the series, 1955). The series began in 1909 with the publication of the Hamāsah and continues to the present.
The 1955 publication
The 1955 publication of Voorhoeve’s edition of the two Malay treatises of Raniri — No. 16 of the series — gave scholars, for the first time, a complete facsimile of the *Tibjān fī maʿrifat al-adyān* (from Leiden Cod. Or. 3291, the legacy of Van der Tuuk) and of the *Ḥujjat aṣ-ṣiddīq li-dafʿ az-zindīq* (from the Maxwell collection of the Royal Asiatic Society). Voorhoeve’s introduction identifies, for the first time, the principal sources of the Tibjān: the *Tamhīd* of Abū Shakūr as-Sālimī, the *al-Insān al-kāmil* of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, and the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib*.
Distribution
The publications of the Foundation are sold for the benefit of the Foundation by the publisher E. J. Brill at Leiden, at the prices indicated. As each publication appears, the Council of the Foundation offers a free copy to qualified public libraries; for the first publication (the Hamāsah), this could be done only for a smaller number of libraries. The Council has subsequently adopted the rule of not subsequently increasing the number of free copies distributed at the time of publication (with the exception of No. 14); libraries or scholars who have not received a copy may obtain one from the publisher at the indicated price.
Significance
The Stichting De Goeje is the publisher of the standard edition of the two Malay treatises of Raniri, and one of the principal scholarly foundations for the publication of Arabic and Islamic texts in European scholarship. The inclusion of Voorhoeve’s edition of Raniri’s Malay treatises in the series — alongside editions of Arabic texts of the classical Islamic tradition — is itself a document of the place of Malay religious literature within the wider field of Arabic and Islamic studies, and of the recognition of Malay as a language of Islamic scholastic prose alongside Arabic and Persian.
See Also
- Abd al-Karim al-Jili
- Abu Syakur as-Salimi
- al-Insan al-Kamil
- Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk
- Hudjdjat as-siddiq li-daf az-zindiq
- Ma’rifat al-madhahib
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Royal Asiatic Society
- Tamhid fi bayan at-tawhid
- Tibjan fi ma’rifat al-adyan
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Front matter (pp. 3–5), where the publications of the Foundation are listed and the rules of distribution are set out.
The Stichting De Goeje — in English, the De Goeje Foundation; in French, La Fondation De Goeje — is a Dutch scholarly foundation that publishes the series Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje (“Publications of the De Goeje Foundation”), of which the 1955 facsimile edition of the two Malay treatises of Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī by P. Voorhoeve is No. 16. The foundation is named for the Dutch Arabist Michael Jan de Goeje (1836–1909), professor of Arabic at Leiden, and is based at Leiden. The Secretary of the foundation is to be addressed, as Voorhoeve’s edition records, at Rijnsburgerweg 101, Leiden, the Netherlands.
The Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje
The series Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje — published at Leiden by E. J. Brill — is one of the principal series of editions of Arabic and Islamic texts in European scholarship. The series includes editions of Arabic texts (such as the Hamāsah of Abū Tammām, the Fākhir of al-Mufaḍḍal ibn Salama, and the Taʾrīkh al-Mustaṣṭāfī of Ibn al-Mujāwir), translations and studies (such as the Streitschrift des Ghazālī gegen die Bāṭiniyya-Sekte by Ignaz Goldziher), and editions of Malay texts (such as Voorhoeve’s edition of Raniri’s two Malay treatises, No. 16 of the series, 1955). The series began in 1909 with the publication of the Hamāsah and continues to the present.
The 1955 publication
The 1955 publication of Voorhoeve’s edition of the two Malay treatises of Raniri — No. 16 of the series — gave scholars, for the first time, a complete facsimile of the *Tibjān fī maʿrifat al-adyān* (from Leiden Cod. Or. 3291, the legacy of Van der Tuuk) and of the *Ḥujjat aṣ-ṣiddīq li-dafʿ az-zindīq* (from the Maxwell collection of the Royal Asiatic Society). Voorhoeve’s introduction identifies, for the first time, the principal sources of the Tibjān: the *Tamhīd* of Abū Shakūr as-Sālimī, the *al-Insān al-kāmil* of ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Jīlī, and the *Maʿrifat al-madhāhib*.
Distribution
The publications of the Foundation are sold for the benefit of the Foundation by the publisher E. J. Brill at Leiden, at the prices indicated. As each publication appears, the Council of the Foundation offers a free copy to qualified public libraries; for the first publication (the Hamāsah), this could be done only for a smaller number of libraries. The Council has subsequently adopted the rule of not subsequently increasing the number of free copies distributed at the time of publication (with the exception of No. 14); libraries or scholars who have not received a copy may obtain one from the publisher at the indicated price.
Significance
The Stichting De Goeje is the publisher of the standard edition of the two Malay treatises of Raniri, and one of the principal scholarly foundations for the publication of Arabic and Islamic texts in European scholarship. The inclusion of Voorhoeve’s edition of Raniri’s Malay treatises in the series — alongside editions of Arabic texts of the classical Islamic tradition — is itself a document of the place of Malay religious literature within the wider field of Arabic and Islamic studies, and of the recognition of Malay as a language of Islamic scholastic prose alongside Arabic and Persian.
See Also
- Abd al-Karim al-Jili
- Abu Syakur as-Salimi
- al-Insan al-Kamil
- Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk
- Hudjdjat as-siddiq li-daf az-zindiq
- Ma’rifat al-madhahib
- P. Voorhoeve
- Raniri
- Royal Asiatic Society
- Tamhid fi bayan at-tawhid
- Tibjan fi ma’rifat al-adyan
Source
Twee Maleise geschriften van Nūruddīn ar-Rānīrī: in facsimile uitgegeven met aantekeningen door P. Voorhoeve. Uitgaven van de Stichting De Goeje, No. 16. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1955. Front matter (pp. 3–5), where the publications of the Foundation are listed and the rules of distribution are set out.