scholarly journals Sufism Scholars Network in the Middle East, India, and Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-92
Author(s):  
Dwi Afrianti
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Local Level ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
International Network ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Entry Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
Muslim Communities

The history of Islam in Indonesia cannot be separated from the affected of local culture, religion, belief earlier, and culture of the spreader of Islam which are also influenced by religion and beliefs held previously, as well as the entry period into certain areas of different life times, willingness to form the teachings of the scholars/king. All of this shows the complexity of the uniqueness of Islam in Indonesian as the majority religion among diverse religions in Indonesia. Sufism are directly involved in the spread of Islam in Indonesia with a unique teaching that facilitate the engaging of non-Muslim communities into Islam, compromise or blends Islam with religious and beliefs practices rather than local beliefs change from an international network to the local level. The terms and the elements of the pre-Islamic culture are used to explain Islam itself. Islamic history of Sundanese, there is a link in teachings of Wihdat al-Wujud of Ibn al-‘Arabi who Sufism Scholar that connected between the international Islamic networks scholars and Sundanese in Indonesia. It is more popular, especially in the congregation of Thariqat Syattariyah originated from India, and it is widespread in Indonesia such as Aceh, Minangkabau and also Pamijahan-Tasikmalaya that brought by Abdul Muhyi since 17th century ago.

The Making of the Medieval Middle East

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack Tannous
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Conversion To Islam ◽  
History Of ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
The Middle Ages

In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. This book argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called “the simple” in late antique and medieval sources. Largely agrarian and illiterate, these Christians outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history. What did it mean for Christian communities to break apart over theological disagreements that most people could not understand? How does our view of the rise of Islam change if we take seriously the fact that Muslims remained a demographic minority for much of the Middle Ages? In addressing these and other questions, the book provides a sweeping reinterpretation of the religious history of the medieval Middle East. The book draws on a wealth of Greek, Syriac, and Arabic sources to recast these conquered lands as largely Christian ones whose growing Muslim populations are properly understood as converting away from and in competition with the non-Muslim communities around them.

scholarly journals The Story of Polish “Orientalness” – Researching Islam in Poland

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolina Rak
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
Entire World ◽  
Muslim Communities ◽  
Oriental Studies

Polish academia has a long tradition of studies on the Middle East, Islam and its heritage. Oriental studies have been part of university curricula in Kraków, Lvov (today in Ukraine) and Vilno (today Vilnius is the capital of Lithuania), later expanding also in such cities as today’s capital Warsaw [1]. The Oriental studies concentrated on the MiddleEastduetocontactsPolandhashadwiththeregion.Oneofthemostinteresting ideas brought up by researchers is based on the observations of cultural encounters throughout the turbulent history of the country leading some to coin terms such as Polish “Orientalness”. This term denotes a set of identity and cultural characteristics and can beopposed to the widely debated “Orientalism”, as defined by the renowned Palestinian intellectual and academic Edward Said in his seminal book from 1979, due to different experiences of relations with Muslim communities. Today’s Poland due to several, mainly historical factors, is one of the most homogenous nations of the entire world so it seems crucial to look upon patterns of multicultural existence which were once experienced on a daily basis.

Goodbye to the Despot: Feldman on Islamic Law in the Ottoman Empire

2010 ◽  
Vol 35 (01) ◽  
pp. 219-242
Author(s):  
Molly Greene
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of

Noah Feldman's 2008 book, The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State, provides a sweeping review of the constitutional history of the Islamic polity that connects the past to developments in the Middle East today. The Ottoman Empire is vital to his argument. This essay critically evaluates Feldman's treatment of the Ottoman period, within the larger context of Islamic history, and in so doing considers the understudied constitutional history of the empire. Without denying the importance of the ulema and the shari'a, it argues that the empire was a hybrid of many different traditions and the centrality of Islamic law should not be overstated.

scholarly journals Problematika Pembelajaran SKI Di MTs Salafiyah Syafiiyah Bandung Diwek Jombang

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Mar'atul Azizah ◽  
Rina Bayu Winanda
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Learning Objectives ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Evaluation Scores ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Collection Methods

The subject of Islamic history is underestimated or is only considered a complementary subject by students. So that here the researcher is interested in researching about how the problems of learning Islamic Cultural History at MTs Salafiyah Syafiiyah Bandung Diwek Jombang and how the teacher's efforts in overcoming the problems of learning the History of Islamic Culture at MTs Salafiyah Syafiiyah Bandung Diwek Jombang. This research uses a qualitative approach. Data collection methods: observation, interviews and documentation. The data analysis technique used Miles and Huberman's interactive model which included data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. To check the validity of the data, it was used research extension, observation persistence and triangulation. The results of this study found that: Mathematics of learning resource problems are incomplete, lack of understanding of the method, the lack of media so that it meets the learning objectives, student problems before and during learning, some evaluation scores are below standard. The teacher's efforts: learning resources are handled with the internet as a complementary source, methods are handled with other methods prepared by the teacher, media are overcome with other media that are easy to find, students are overcome with several common things, evaluation is overcome with remedial programs.

scholarly journals Digging The Traces of Islam in Baritan Tradition

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Hanida Eris Griyanti ◽  
Sunardi Sunardi ◽  
Warto Warto
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The People ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This article aims to explore the traces of Islam in the tradition of "Baritan". The data were collected from observation, interview, documentation and literature study. The researchers here used data analysis techniques which developed by Miles & Huberman. This research was descriptive qualitative. Since religion and Islamic culture appeared in Indonesia, there was a process of Islamization of the people in Indonesia. Along with the process of Islamization, the socio-cultural changes occured towards the formation of a new culture which was based on Islam. Some traditions that are still used by some Islamic communities such as the grave, pilgrimage,charity, or traditional ceremony of Java which called as sekaten was also a proof of Islamic history in Indonesia that could not be forgotten. These traditions were born because of the influence of Islam which was acculturated with the local culture of the community at the time. One tradition that still exists today is the Baritan Tradition, which means the sea offering. This "Baritan" tradition, It was held every first suro of Javanese calendar or new year of Islam.

Islamic Art and Architecture in The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed.

1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-162
Author(s):  
Sheila S. Blair ◽  
Jonathan M. Bloom
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Late Summer ◽  
Islamic Art ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Islamic Civilization ◽  
Art And Architecture ◽  
Reference Tool

The second edition of The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI/2), published since 1954 by E.J. Brill in Leiden, is well known as an unparalleled scholarly reference for the history and culture of the Islamic lands. By late summer 1994, the Encyclopaedia had reached the entry Riḍā Shāh in the middle of the eighth volume. The volumes, each approximately 1000 pages long, are lodes of information about the people, places, events and ideas of Islamic history and thought; but simply by handling the volumes, a reader would never realize that the visual arts were an important component of Islamic culture. There are very few illustrations, none of them in color. Even to the most unsophisticated eye, EI/2 is a dense, ponderous, and user-antagonistic reference tool. Nevertheless, it is a useful resource for the history of art and architecture in the Islamic lands, particularly to those who already know something about Islamic civilization, although the reader must be an experienced miner to discover the ore-bearing strata.

AL-AHBASH AND WAHHABIYYA: INTERPRETATIONS OF ISLAM

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-538 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mustafa Kabha ◽  
Haggai Erlich
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Islam ◽  
Active Participation ◽  
Significant Issue ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Countries ◽  
History Of

Islam is a universal religion and culture. Scholars who tend to focus on Islam in specific societies may overlook connections that, over the centuries, were important in shaping various Islamic intercultural dialogs. One case in point is the role of Ethiopia in the history of Islam. Although situated next door to the cradle of Islam, Ethiopia conveniently has been perceived by many Western historians of the Arab Middle East as an African “Christian island,” and as largely irrelevant. In practice, however, the Christian-dominated empire has remained meaningful to all Muslims from Islam's inception. It has also been the home of Islamic communities that maintained constant contact with the Middle East. Indeed, one of the side aspects of the resurgence of political Islam since the 1970s is the emergence in Lebanon of the “The Association of Islamic Philanthropic Projects” (Jamעiyyat al-Mashariע al-Khayriyya al-Islamiyya), better known as “The Ethiopians,” al-Ahbash. Its leader came to Beirut from Ethiopia with a rather flexible interpretation of Islam, which revolved around political coexistence with Christians. Al-Ahbash of Lebanon expanded to become arguably the leading factor in the local Sunni community. They opened branches on all continents and spread their interpretation of Islam to many Islamic as well as non-Islamic countries. This article is an attempt to relate some of the Middle Eastern–Ethiopian Islamic history as the background to an analysis of a significant issue on today's all-Islamic agenda. It aims to present the Ahbash history, beliefs, and rivalry with the Wahhabiyya beginning in the mid-1980s. It does so by addressing conceptual, political, and theological aspects, which had been developed against the background of Ethiopia as a land of Islamic–Christian dialogue, and their collision with respective aspects developed in the Wahhabi kingdom of the Saudis. The contemporary inner-Islamic, Ahbash-Wahhabiyya conceptual rivalry turned in the 1990s into a verbal war conducted in traditional ways, as well as by means of modern channels of Internet exchanges and polemics. Their debate goes to the heart of Islam's major dilemmas as it attracts attention and draws active participation from all over the world.

scholarly journals MASUKNYA ISLAM DI SPANYOL (Studi Naskah Sejarah Islam)

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-119
Author(s):  
Rusniati Rusniati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Research Report ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Processing Data ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Income

AbstractThe history of Islam in the hemisphere has long been evidence of Islam's triumph in this hemisphere. One of them in Spain. Spain is a country that was once conquered by Islam to develop the religion of Islam in the country. When Islam entered Spain, this country experienced many rapid civilizations both from Islamic culture and education, because Spain was supported by a fertile country with high economic income. thus producing great thinkers. Spain experienced rapid development and Islamic culture and education which began with studying religious and literary sciences, then increased by studying the sciences of reason. The history of the triumph of Islam in Spain needs to be examined early in its emergence. Therefore, this study explores the history of the entry of Islam in Spain. This research is a qualitative research that describes all data found through a library approach. Literature approach is used to collect various literatures and previous documents related to the object of research. This research does not determine a location as a place of research because the study tends to be on text texts. At this stage, activities are carried out in the form of processing data obtained from documents, which will then be compiled into a study. The results of the analysis are outlined in the form of a descriptive research report. The results of the study show that the origins of the entry of Islam in Spain were inseparable from the success of Tariq ibn Ziyad's defeat of the king Roderick, so this victory became the main capital for Tariq ibn Ziyad and his forces to conquer important cities in Spain.Keywords: Islam, Spain, Cordova, Islamic History.

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