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| Keywords: AbdullahbinAbdulKadir-HikayatAbdullah-1843.jpg A copy of the Hikayat Abdullah 1843 by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Munshi Abdullah 1796 “1854 written in Malay in the Jawi script from the Jawi Manuscript Collection Asian Division Library of Congress When the United States Exploring Expedition led by Charles Wilkes was in Singapore in 1842 Wilkes asked a missionary named Alfred North to send him a copy of Abdullah's autobiography to him in the United States The work was completed in 1843 and eventually found its way into the Smithsonian Institution In 1865 the Smithsonian transferred the manuscript to the Library of Congress where it became one of the first Asian books to enter its collections See cite web White whales and Bugis books http //www loc gov/rr/asian/guide/guide-whitewhales html Asian Collections Library of Congress An Illustrated Guide Library of Congress 1 November 2005 2008-11-18 http //www loc gov/rr/asian/guide/images/0051 jpg 1843 Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir PD-SG-lifetimepub PD-1923 PD-SG-lifetimepub PD-1923 1843 books Biographies Books by Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir Books from Singapore Scanned Jawi texts United States Exploring Expedition Asian Malay Jawi Arabic alphabet Arabic script in non-Arabic languages Manuscripts in Malay language | ||||
