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Authored Books

Hijjas, Mulaika (2010) Victorious wives: the disguised heroine in nineteenth-century Malay syair. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Hijjas, Mulaika, ed. (2024) Syair Jaran Tamasa. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Buku Fixi. (Fixi Retro)

Book Chapters

Hijjas, Mulaika (2022) 'Is Jawi Islamic?' In: Nurtawab, Ervan and Daneshgar, Majid, (eds.), Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies. Netherlands: Brill, pp. 269-293. (Texts and Studies on the Qurʾān, Volume: 20)

Hijjas, Mulaika (2015) '"Penghulu segala perempuan": Fatima in Malay didactic texts for women.' In: Formichi, Chiara and Feener, R. Michael, (eds.), Shi'ism in South East Asia: 'Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions. London: Hurst and Co., pp. 79-98.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2014) 'The Perak Regalia: Replicas and Originals.' In: Tan, Erika, (ed.), Come Cannibalise Us Why Don't You? Singapore: National University of Singapore Museum, pp. 119-120.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2013) 'The fruit of good intentions: Hikayat Darma Ta'sia in the National Library of Indonesia's Ml. 42.' In: Murtagh, Ben and Harun, Jelani, (eds.), Mengharungi laut sastera Melayu: esei penghargaan kepada Profesor Emeritus V.I. Braginsky. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, pp. 250-274.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2006) 'Reading the Romantic Syair: Women's Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century Riau.' In: Watkins, Justin and Arai, Masami, (eds.), Proceedings of the SOAS/TUFS Postgraduate Symposium. Tokyo: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, pp. 117-129.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2006) 'The Travels of Syair Sultan Abdul Muluk.' In: Guttman, Anna, Hockx, Michel and Paizis, George, (eds.), The Global Literary Field. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 152-164.

Journal Article

Hijjas, Mulaika (2024) 'Old names for new things: two items of Malay royal regalia as invented tradition.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 52 (152). pp. 51-75.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2023) 'Marsden's Malay Manuscripts: Reassessing a Colonial Collection.' Philological Encounters, 8 (1). pp. 38-72.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2018) 'The trials of Rābi‘a al-‘Adawīyya in the Malay world: the woman Sufi in Hikayat Rabi‘ah.' Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 174 (2-3). pp. 216-243.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2017) 'Marks of many hands: annotation in the Malay manuscript tradition and a Sufi compendium from west Sumatra.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 45 (132). pp. 226-249.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2015) 'Entries 25 and 42 in A Jawi Sourcebook for the Study of Malay Palaeography and Orthography.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 43 (125). pp. 88-89.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2013) 'Guides for Mrs Nawawi: two nineteenth-century Malay reformist texts on the duties of wives.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 41 (120). pp. 215-236.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2010) 'Not Just Fryers of Bananas and Sweet Potatoes: Literate and Literary Women in the Nineteenth-Century Malay World.' Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 41 (1). pp. 153-172.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2010) 'The Legend You Thought You Knew: Text and Screen Representations of Puteri Gunung Ledang.' South East Asia Research, 18 (2). pp. 245-270.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2005) 'The Nursemaid’s Tale: Representations of the Inang in Syair Siti Zuhrah and Syair Sultan Mahmud.' Indonesia and the Malay World, 33 (97). pp. 265-279.

Hijjas, Mulaika (2004) 'Women Rajas in Two Classical Malay Texts.' Tenggara, 47/48. pp. 39-48.

Book Reviews

Hijjas, Mulaika (2018) 'Review of: Sher Banu A.L. Khan. Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom: the Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2017.' South East Asia Research, 26 (2). pp. 213-215.

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Hijjas, Mulaika and Rahardjo, Jessica (2022) Teaching Jawi in the Pandemic. Teaching the Codex: Pedagogical Approaches to Palaeography and Codicology [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Hijjas, Mulaika (2021) Jawi: identity and controversy. New Mandala [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Hijjas, Mulaika (2020) Where are all the Malay royal libraries? Malay Heritage Centre [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Hijjas, Mulaika (2020) Politics of the archive: Colonial collections of Malay manuscripts in comparative perspective. FutureLearn MOOC "Learning from the Past" [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]