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2016
Ricci, R. . (2016). Thoughts on Writing Literary History: The Case of the Sri Lankan Malays. PMLA, 131(5), 1444-1451.
ed.), R. Ricci (. (2016). Exile in Colonial Asia: Kings, Convicts, Commemoration. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.Abstract
exile_in_colonial_asia
2015
Ricci, R. . (2015). Reading a History of Writing: Heritage, Religion, and Script Change in Java. Itinerario, 39(3), 419-435.
2014
Ricci, R. . (2014). Commissioned Essay for the Forum on Translation and Universals. Translation Studies.Abstract
Pages 92-95
Ricci, R. . (2014). Story, Sentence, Single Word: Translation paradigms in Javanese and Malay Islamic literature. In A Companion to Translation Studies (pp. 543-556). Wiley-Blackwell.
Ricci, R. . (2014). Remembering Java’s Islamization: A View from Sri Lanka. In Global Islam in the Age of Steam and Print (pp. 185-203). Los Angeles: University of California Press.
Ricci, R. . (2014). Asian and Islamic Crossing: Malay Writing in Nineteenth Century Sri Lanka. South Asian History and Culture, 5(2), 179-194.Abstract
Reprinted in Culture and Power in South Asian Islam: Defying the Perpetual Exception, ed. Neilesh Bose (New York and London: Routledge, 2015).
2013
Ricci, R. . (2013). Perfect Wedding, Penniless Life: Ali and Fatima in a Sri Lankan Malay Text. South Asian History and Culture, 4(2), 266-277.Abstract
Reprinted in Gender and Masculinities, ed. Assa Doron and Alex Broom (New Delhi: Routledge, 2014) 151-168.
Ricci, R. . (2013). The Malay World, Expanded: The world’s first Malay newspaper, Colombo 1869. Indonesia and the Malay World, 41(120), 168-182. Retrieved from Publisher's Version
2012
Ricci, R. . (2012). Citing as a Site: Translation and Circulation in Muslim South and Southeast Asia. Modern Asian Studies, 46(2), 331-353. Retrieved from Publisher's VersionAbstract

Reprinted in "Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility", ed. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2014) 105-126.

Ricci, R. . (2012). Thresholds of Interpretation on the Threshold of Change: Paratexts in Late 19th-Century Javanese Manuscripts. Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, 3(3), 185-210.
Ricci, R. . (2012). The Discovery of Javanese Writing in a Sri Lankan Malay Manuscript. Bijdragen tot de-Taal, Land-en Volkenkunde, 168(4), 511-518. Retrieved from Publisher's Version
2011
Ricci, R. . (2011). World Literature and Muslim Southeast Asia. In Routledge Companion to World Literature (pp. 497-506). London: Routledge.
Ricci, R., & van der Putten, J. (Eds.). (2011). Translation in Asia: theories, practices, histories. Manchester: St. Jerome.
Ricci, R. . (2011). Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia. University of Chicago Press, Re-published in India by Permanent Black .Abstract
islam_translated book cover
2010
Ricci, R. . (2010). Jews in Indonesia: perceptions and histories. Indonesia and the Malay World, 112(3).
Ricci, R. . (2010). Islamic Literary Networks in South and Southeast Asia. Journal of Islamic Studies, 21(1), 1-28.Abstract

Reprinted in World Literature in Theory, ed. David Damrosch (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014) 437-459.

Ricci, R. . (2010). On the Untranslatability of ‘Translation’. Considerations from Java, Indonesia. Translation Studies, 3(3), 287-301.
Ricci, R. . (2010). The Ambiguous Figure of the Jew in Javanese Literature. Indonesia and the Malay World, 38(112), 403-417. Retrieved from Publisher's Version
2009
Ricci, R. . (2009). From Jewish Disciple to Muslim Guru: On Literary and Religious Transformations in Late Nineteenth Century Java. In Islamic Connections. Studies of South and Southeast Asia (pp. 68-85). Singapore: Institute for Southeast Asian Studies.