Areas of Research and Activities of PPMAM
Areas of research
- The research into manuscripts of the Malay world includes but is not limited to these fields:
- Science and technology of the Malay world
- Medicine (Kitab Tibb)
- Language, Linguistic and Culture of the Malay world
- Historical literature of the Malay world
- Malay Hikayat genre of writings
- Religious based genre of writings which includes philosophy, creed, law, commentaries on the Qur’an, Prophetic traditions and reports, ethics, spirituality (tasawwuf), Arabic morphology and syntax, etc.
- Art which includes architecture, martial arts, aesthetics, wood carving etc.
- Letters of the Malay Kings
- Illuminated manuscripts
- Poetry of traditional Malay
Activities
- A series of Talks (Wacana)
- Workshops on research
- Transliteration training
- Publication of research findings
- Field work
- Digitization and documentation of Malay Manuscripts
- Development of resource centre
- Paperwork and Souvenirs