scholarly journals A Prelimanary Survey of Issues of Shiism in Malaysia with Special Reference to the State of Malacca

2018 ◽  
pp. 99-127
Author(s):  
Hamzah Jantan ◽  
W Mohd Azam bin Mohd Amin ◽  
Amilah binti Awang Abd Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Iranian Revolution ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Introductory Discussion

Abstract This paper offers an introductory discussion of Shiism as one of the sect in Muslim schism. It includes the historical development of Shiism in Muslim traditions whose influence can be traced in Malaysia, specifically in Malacca. The author emphasises the clear distinction between the Shiite and the Ahl al-Bayt, and some issues of Shiism that drew the attention of religious authority in Malacca. A qualitative methodology that includes the textual analysis and interview method were employed to analyse textual materials related to Shiism. Findings shows that Malay Shiites group existed in Malacca as most of them were inspired by the Iranian revolution on 1979.  Keywords: Schism, Shiism, Sunnism, Malay, Melaka, Islamic History.

scholarly journals جهود عرفان عبد الحميد في دراسة الأديان: النصرانية أنموذجا Contributions of ‘Irfān ‘Abd al-Ḥamīd in comparative study of religion: Christianity as a case study

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
سيكو توري Sekou Toure ◽  
وان محمد عزام بن وان محمد أمين Wan Mohd Azam Mohd Amin ◽  
عوض الخلف (Awad Al-Khalaf)
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
Analysis Approach ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Abstract Muslim scholars have done great contribution to the field of Comparative Religion in Islamic heritage. In contemporary era numbers of Muslim experts appear in the field of studying religions, names such as Aḥmad Shalabī, Abū Zahrah, al-A‘ẓamī, al Fārūqī and ‘Irfān ‘Abd al- Ḥamīd Fattāḥ are among them. This paper aims at shading light to the efforts, methods and contributions of al-marḥūm Faṭṭāḥ’s in his work of studying Christianity and other religions. A qualitative methodology in which the critical textual analysis approach has been used in studying materials related to Faṭṭāḥ. Findings indicate that Faṭṭāḥ presented Christian faith in consistence with the historical development of Christianity..  

scholarly journals Citizen Engagement Challenges in Urban Disaster Management Programs with Special Reference to Fire, Waterlogging and Pandemics

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Kazi Nazmul Huda ◽  
M. Jamir Uddin ◽  
Moslehuddin Chowdhury Khaled
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Civil Defense ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Citizen Engagement ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Urban Disaster ◽  
Urban Fire

The main objective of this study is to explore the challenges of engaging citizens in urban disaster management (UDM) in the urban fire, waterlogging, and pandemic like COVID 19. A qualitative research approach, mainly in-depth interview method was applied to gain insights from different government officials of civil defense, police force, and ward councilors of Dhaka and Chattogram City Corporations, who were experienced in working at the field level UDM. The study tried to investigate the challenges faced by the officials during disaster rescue operations with special reference to the role of urban citizens. The findings of the study capture, in detail, the challenges faced by different personnel involved in UDM operations. While citizen engagement is expected to be a positive notion, in most cases, citizens themselves become the main obstacle of disaster management, due to their ignorance, negligence, and lack of patience in the given disastrous and pandemic situation, and thus, hinders UDM operations and crisis management. The lessons learned from contemporary urban disasters like fire and the COVID 19 pandemic are recorded elaborately. Based on that, different recommendations are made to ensure the active engagement of citizens to facilitate UDM activities in an orderly manner.   

scholarly journals Recapturing the Meaning of Akhlāq Islāmiyyah: An Analysis of the Article “Akhlak” in the Encyclopedia of Islam

2018 ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Amilah binti Awang Abd Rahman
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Ethical Thought ◽  
Practical Ethics ◽  
Key Words Ethics ◽  
Islamic Thought ◽  
History Of

Abstract This paper will analytically study the Islamic meaning of akhlaq as portrayed by two Western writers in the article entitled “Akhlak” published in the Encyclopedia of Islam. The author highlights the contribution of Western scholars especially Walzer and Gibb to the understanding of history of the development of Islamic thought and disciplines. By employing the qualitative methodology, the author uses textual analysis and comparative method on the writings of both thinkers and others.  Findings indicate that there are several weaknesses in the writing that include limiting the scope of akhlaq to practical ethics of selected virtues, the lacking of clear detachment between akhlaq and ethical thought, and others.  Key words: Ethics, Akhlaq, Philosophy, Islam, Encyclopedia of Islam.

Auf der Suche nach der Zeit als narratologische Analysekategorie. Mit Beispielen aus der setsuwa-Literatur

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Balmes
Keyword(s):  
Classical Theory ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Theory ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Narrative Text ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Time Concepts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gerard Genette

Abstract There are three levels on which time is constitutive for narrative discourse: a) without time events as well as the story world cannot be conceived; b) time is needed to tell a story; c) the recipient of a narrative text makes temporal connections by recalling something that happened earlier in the story or the way in which something has been told, or by wondering how the narrative will continue. An examination of these levels shows, however, that the underlying time concepts or temporalities differ significantly. In most narratological studies, the focus lies on the relationship between ‘narrated time’ and ‘narrating time’ (Günther Müller, “Die Bedeutung der Zeit in der Erzählkunst,” 1947), pertaining to what Gérard Genette (“Discours du récit,” 1972) has systematized under the categories of ‘order,’ ‘duration,’ and ‘frequency.’ While a textual analysis based on these concepts may lead to promising results, there are also limitations to this approach. Using examples from Japanese twelfth- to thirteenth-century setsuwa literature, I demonstrate that Meir Sternberg’s (“Telling in Time (II): Chronology, Teleology, Narrativity,” 1992) cognitive theory based on reception and centered around the temporal dynamics of suspense, curiosity, and surprise provides a useful toolkit to make sense of narratives where ‘classical’ theory fails. The application on a tale from Konjaku monogatari shū (24:11) has implications for our understanding of the transmission of the story and allows us to reject one existing theory of the historical development of the tale.

Remembering Our Heroes: Global Jihad’s Militancy in a Comparative Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-124
Author(s):  
Meir Hatina
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Self Perceptions ◽  
Ibn Taymiyya ◽  
Sayyid Qutb

Abstract Many studies have been devoted to the features of global jihad (also known as Salafi jihadism), its historical development, its difference from other Salafi groups, or its struggles with ideological rivals. Little emphasis, however, has been given to global jihadists’ ideological genealogy, and hence to locating them in a comparative perspective. How did they commemorate their formative heroes, such as the medieval jurist Ibn Taymiyya and mid-twentieth century ideologues, such as Sayyid Qutb, Abu al-Aʿla al-Mawdudi, ʿAbd al-Salam Faraj, Shukri Mustafaʾ, Marwan Hadid or Saʿid Hawwa? Were these figures still perceived as cultural heroes, or were they shunned? Did their writings continue to provide sources of inspiration, or were they replaced by new manifestos? An in-depth discussion of these questions, based on a textual analysis of jihadi sources, may shed further light on global jihadists’ ideological evolution and self-perceptions. It will provide an additional prism for analyzing modern Sunni militancy, and scrutinize the extent its protagonists’ treatises match past traditions or, alternatively, deviate from them in favor of cultivated traditions, thus advancing a dissident agenda.

scholarly journals Applying Petitmengin’s Explicitation Interview Method to Elicit the Lived Experience of Breathing Upon Waking by an Individual With Cystic Fibrosis

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 856-868
Author(s):  
Sigrid Ladores
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Cystic Fibrosis ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Respiratory System ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
End Stage

Breathing is an act that most people do not consciously evoke unless there is a presence of illness that affects the respiratory system. Adults generally take in 12 to 15 breaths per minute without even a thought about the body’s mechanics that allow for proper oxygenation and ventilation. However, for those with pulmonary compromise, breathing becomes a very conscious, deliberate, and sometimes laborious act. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the use of the explicitation method by Petitmengin by interviewing a subject to elicit the lived experience of breathing by an individual with end-stage cystic fibrosis (CF). To apply the interview method, the following phenomenological question guided the interviewer’s approach: What is the lived experience of breathing upon waking for an individual with CF? This paper includes a transcription of the interview followed by a self-critique, textual analysis, and discussion of the implications to health care.

The Islamic Principles of Social Justice: Maulana Abul Kalam Azad and Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 14-30
Author(s):  
Hayat Alvi
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Islamic Militancy ◽  
Early Islamic

The idea of nonviolent civil disobedience is to act against injustice and unjust laws. This has been Mahatma Gandhi’s motivation, as well as Maulana Abul Kalam Azad’s. For an Islamic religious authority of Maulana Azad’s stature and caliber to embrace nonviolent activism for the sake of social justice, it is a significant change in the course of action in Islam against oppression. The concepts of justice/injustice, oppression, and social justice need to be examined in historical context, beginning with early Islamic history, followed by the period of British colonial rule and the Indian struggle against it as led by Mahatma Gandhi and Maulana Azad. This article analyzes the principles of Maulana Azad in the struggle against injustice, and how that compares to the principles and practices of Islamic militancy and jihadism. The latter are viewed as illegitimate, while Maulana Azad’s Islamic credentials render his acceptance of nonviolent civil disobedience as far more legitimate.

scholarly journals The twoKronik Tionghuaof Semarang and Cirebon: A note on provenance and reliability

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Wain
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Authentic Texts ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Dutch Colonial

This article is the first comprehensive evaluation of the provenance and reliability of the two enigmaticKronik Tionghuatexts of Semarang and Cirebon (the ‘Malay Annals of Semarang and Cerbon’). Initially published by M.O. Parlindungan in 1964, historians have increasingly begun to use these documents when reconstructing Java's early Islamic history. This article is a long overdue attempt to positively identify the Dutch colonial official (Cornelis Poortman) whom Parlindungan claims to have received the texts from. Although the article establishes that Parlindungan almost certainly knew this individual, discrepancies between his version of Poortman's career and official Dutch records raise questions about whether Poortman could have found the twoKronik Tionghua, at least in the manner described. The article then ends with a close textual analysis of bothKronik Tionghuawhich demonstrates the possibility that both texts were written by a modern, Dutch-educated author. The article therefore concludes that both texts are probable fabrications, albeit ones based on authentic texts.

scholarly journals Problems of Sources for The Reconstruction of The History of Islam in Yauri Emirate

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 649
Author(s):  
Suwaiba Salihu ◽  
Atiku Garba Yahaya
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Historical Development ◽  
Field Survey ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Old People ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
History Of

The paper examined the challenges encountered during data collection in a field survey. There existed some variations between oral narratives and documented evidence on the history of Islam in Yauri Emirate. Management of such conflicting data from primary and secondary sources in academic research was one of the most tasking endeavors because it required corroboration people who witnessed the events and experts with authentic versions of the historical development of the event under investigation. Reconciling such data has become a daunting task for the researchers however when the researcher resorted to verification of the data collected from the experts and available old people in the community concerned, both data could be harmonized and produced robust findings in the reconstruction of Islamic history in Yauri Emirate.

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