Manuscript of Pedagogy by Mirat Afkar Rijal: Anthropology-history correlation in the text of the Nusantara Arab’s poetry

Abstract

In cultivating the contents of the manuscript text, philology cannot be separated from the context of society and culture that made or gave birth to it. For this reason, in the study of the community's response to the existence of manuscripts at present, it can utilize anthropological studies. Cross-linking between cultural studies between philology and history is also very close, as evidenced by the many classical literary texts that have been used as historical data. This research is looking for evidence of correlation between educational studies in the form of Arabic poetry in the manuscript of Mirat Afkar Rijal with anthropological-historical studies that gave birth to the text. The manuscript was first studied through philological stages including using the text criticism method. The results of this study found that the Mirat Afkar Rijal text is one of the works of a scholar in the archipelago in the Pedagogic field in the form of Arabic poetry which was born based on the need for education as well as the introduction of one of the Arabic metrums in Solo the place where this text was born the popular studied by Arab scholars. Historical anthropology will clarify the meaning of the Arabic text used in this work is a result of the acculturation of two Arab-Malay cultures that occurred in Solo-Java. Keywords—pedagogy manuscript; Mir’āt Afkār Rijāl; correlation of anthropology-history