5 No doubt there are further copies in public and private collections worldwide that have yet to be identified. Outside of Southeast Asia, a copy of the Dalāʾil with a Malay colophon has been found in South Africa (it may have been produced by an Indonesian prisoner on Robben Island). 4 Many of the manuscripts do not have colophons, but identified places of production include Sumatra, the Malay peninsula, Java, Western Borneo, and South Sulawesi (see Map 1). To date, the author is aware of at least 67 Dalāʾil manuscripts from Southeast Asia, at least 51 per cent of which are illustrated and/or illuminated (see Appendix). As copies of the Dalāʾil were often illustrated, they assist our understanding of the connections between art and religious practices, and how iconographies that were transmitted into the region were “localized”. Secondly, they are particularly important for the study of Southeast Asian art. Firstly, they attest to links and contacts between the region and the broader Islamic world, and the numerous copies that have been produced demonstrate the popularity of the text among local communities. There are a number of reasons why these manuscripts are important. This article focusses on a selection of illuminated and illustrated manuscripts of the Dalāʾil from Southeast Asia dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As such, these manuscripts and printed books are an invaluable resource for the study of devotional art in Islam and the transmission of images within the Islamic world. The images they featured include the tombs of the Prophet Muḥammad and his two successors ( rawḍa), the Prophet’s pulpit ( minbar), or scenes of Mecca and Medina. Manuscript copies and printed editions of this text were often illustrated. 870/1465), 2 it became immensely successful and was circulated widely across the Sunni Islamic world. Composed during the fifteenth century by the Moroccan Sufi Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad ibn Sulaymān al-Jazūlī al-Simlālī (d. c. The Dalāʾil al-khayrāt (“Guidelines to the blessings”) is a prayer book containing a collection of blessings upon the Prophet Muḥammad.
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