Hikayat Amir Hamzah
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Hikayat Amir Hamzah is a Malay
literary work that chronicles the hero by the name Amir Hamzah. This book is one of the two Hikayat mentioned in Sejarah Melayu as one of the Hikayat used to encourage Malay warriors in their fight against invading Portuguese in Malacca in 1511.
The manuscripts were originally written in the classical Malay language
on traditional paper in old Jawi script.
Hikayat Amir Hamzah was originally written by a Persian writer with title Qissa’i Emir Hamza. It was then translated into Arabic as Sirat Hamzah.
Later it was taken from India to Malacca during Malacca Sultanate and translated into Malays in Jawi script. The manuscript is also written in others language i.e., Javanese
, Balinese
, Acehnese
, Turkish
and Hindi.
Malay language
Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
literary work that chronicles the hero by the name Amir Hamzah. This book is one of the two Hikayat mentioned in Sejarah Melayu as one of the Hikayat used to encourage Malay warriors in their fight against invading Portuguese in Malacca in 1511.
The manuscripts were originally written in the classical Malay language
Malay language
Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
on traditional paper in old Jawi script.
Hikayat Amir Hamzah was originally written by a Persian writer with title Qissa’i Emir Hamza. It was then translated into Arabic as Sirat Hamzah.
Later it was taken from India to Malacca during Malacca Sultanate and translated into Malays in Jawi script. The manuscript is also written in others language i.e., Javanese
Javanese language
Javanese language is the language of the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. In addition, there are also some pockets of Javanese speakers in the northern coast of western Java...
, Balinese
Balinese language
Balinese or simply Bali is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by 3.3 million people on the Indonesian island of Bali, as well as northern Nusa Penida, western Lombok and eastern Java...
, Acehnese
Acehnese language
Acehnese or Aceh is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by Acehnese people natively in Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia...
, Turkish
Turkish language
Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
and Hindi.
External links
- malay concordance project
- PDF - Aksara: The Passage of Malay Scripts.
- http://www.dawama.com/index.php?ch=20&pg=138&ac=7110&tpt_id=11