HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF TAFSIR IN SOUTHEAST ASIA (Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore and Thailand)

Author(s):  
Amirulloh Sain Asari

This paper describes the history and development of tafsir in Southeast Asia, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darusalam, Singapore and Thailand, aimed at providing a new discourse to the academic world, that Islam has another treasure in Far Asia, which is known as a pluralistic country because Islam entered in those countries without any wars. And to provide information related the books, author influence, and method of their tafsir in general.Keyword: History, Development Tafsir, and Southeast Asia 

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Li Li Pang

On the 1st of May 2014, Negara Brunei Darussalam declared the implementation of an Islamic criminal code of law, thus becoming the first country in modern Southeast Asia to declare so. Inevitably, Brunei was scrutinised by the international media, particularly over its relations with its non-Muslim minorities. This paper investigates the causes of the international media’s anxieties by analysing the socio-political circumstances of the non-Muslim minorities in Brunei, with particular focus on its ethnic Chinese citizens, and with reference to the Islamic Law of Minorities, or ahle dhimmah. Perspectives of the Islamic Law of Minorities toward Brunei’s Chinese citizens are also examined within the political-cultural context of Negara. Thus, exploring simultaneously these concepts, Islam and Negara, this paper asserts that the Islamic Law of Minorities has long been upheld in the Brunei Negara, serving to foster the coexistence of peoples of various ethnic and religious affiliations within the Abode of Peace.


2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 33
Author(s):  
Herni Ali HT ◽  
Ali Rama

Abstract: Sharia Banking Performance Index in Southeast Asia Based on the Concept of Maqâshid al-Syarî`ah. Islamic banks as a banking system that carries out Islamic vision in the field of finance and economics should develop a method of measuring performance in accordance with its vision. The vision of Islamic banks can be derived from the vision that chills reversed from the laws of sharia which is called maqâshid al-syarî`ah. Therefore, this study intends to develop methods of measuring the performance of Islamic banking based on the skill maqâshid al-syarî`ah. The maqâshid al-syarî`ah index is an index based on the three main visions of sharia banks, namely individual education (ta’dîb al-fard), justice enforcement (iqâmah al`adl) and welfare encouragement (jalb al-maslâhah). From the vision (dimension) is derived into indicators that are relevant and measurable. This research uses indexing method in calculating maqâshid al-syarî`ah index with case studies of sharia banking that has been operating in Southeast Asia covering Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, Thailand and Philippines. This tudy found that the majority of sharia banks in Southeast Asia have a low-performance maqâshid al-syarî`ah index. This shows that sharia banking is generally still run based on conventional vision even though it has operated in accordance with sharia principles or sharia compliance. 


2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-191
Author(s):  
Ralph Michael Wrobel

AbstractSoutheast Asia is of highest geostrategic interest for China as a rising Great Power as well as for the U.S. and its ally Japan. Since the “Pivot to East Asia” of the Obama administration in Washington in 2011 observers are discussing a “New Great Game” in the region. But has China already established a “backyard” by its economic activities in Southeast Asia and in particular in ASEAN countries? What is the spatial pattern of China’s activities? As an analysis of FDI stocks as well as trade related data show ASEAN countries can be divided into several groups. (1) China’s small neighbour Laos dominated by Chinese FDI. (2) Countries like Cambodia and Myanmar partly dominated by Chinese FDI. (3) Countries with different trade ties to China but mostly strong military or diplomatic ties to the U.S. like Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and (4) the independent Brunei Darussalam. Therefore, Southeast Asia and in particular ASEAN cannot be called a Chinese “backyard” yet. But if U.S. president Trump withdraws the U.S. attention from the region China could be able to achieve a hegemonic position in the region soon.


Author(s):  
Chia Youyee Vang

In geopolitical terms, the Asian sub-region Southeast Asia consists of ten countries that are organized under the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Current member nations include Brunei Darussalam, Kingdom of Cambodia, Republic of Indonesia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Laos), Malaysia, Republic of the Union of Myanmar (formerly Burma), Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Kingdom of Thailand, and Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The term Southeast Asian Americans has been shaped largely by the flow of refugees from the American War in Vietnam’ however, Americans with origins in Southeast Asia have much more diverse migration and settlement experiences that are intricately tied to the complex histories of colonialism, imperialism, and war from the late 19th through the end of the 20th century. A commonality across Southeast Asian American groups today is that their immigration history resulted primarily from the political and military involvement of the United States in the region, aimed at building the United States as a global power. From Filipinos during the Spanish-American War in 1898 to Vietnamese, Cambodian, Lao, and Hmong refugees from the American War in Vietnam, military interventions generated migration flows that, once begun, became difficult to stop. Complicating this history is its role in supporting the international humanitarian apparatus by creating the possibility for displaced people to seek refuge in the United States. Additionally, the relationships between the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore are different from those of other SEA countries involved in the Vietnam War. Consequently, today’s Southeast Asian Americans are heterogeneous with varying levels of acculturation to U.S. society.


1995 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth McVey

Forty-odd years ago, when I became involved in the study of Southeast Asia, it appeared to be a new region, struggling to assert itself in the political world from the lingering ties of colonialism and in the academic world from those who would absorb it in the empires of Further India or the Far East. The centre of this new field of study was indisputably the United States, where in the 1950s and early 1960s Southeast Asia programmes were set up as part of the great expansion of regional studies funded by the US government and foundations. Their guiding assumption was that the interests of America and what would become known as the Third World were compatible and that sympathetic knowledge would aid in bringing about progress towards modernity as envisioned in the American dream.


Zootaxa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4750 (4) ◽  
pp. 591-595
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
RODZAY BIN HAJI ABDUL WAHAB

The tribe Meconematini is a monophyletic and speciose group of slender and predatory katydids from the Indomalayan and Palearctic region (Mugleston et al., 2018). It is especially species-rich from the biodiverse regions of Southeast Asia (Cigliano et al., 2020) but also elusive, as many new species and genera are still being discovered from tropical Southeast Asia (e.g., Tan & Wahab, 2018a; Gorochov, 2019). As more material is accumulated, new understandings of how species are related and/or classified emerged. A species of Meconematini was first described from the primary dipterocarp forest of Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre in Brunei Darussalam, Borneo among a few other related species (Tan et al., 2017, Tan & Wahab, 2018): Kuzicus mirabilis Tan & Wahab, 2018. This species exhibits the deep posteromedian notch of the last male tergite characteristics of Xiphidiopsis Redtenbacher, 1891 but differs by the presence of sclerotized yoke-like epiphallus, typical of Kuzicus Gorochov, 1993 (see Tan & Wahab, 2018a). A year later, A. V. Gorochov erected a new genus Cercoteratura Gorochov, 2019 based on a new species Cercoteratura variegata Gorochov, 2019 from Sumatra and Borneo (Gorochov, 2019). Three other species were also included in this genus, mainly from Sumatra and Thai-Peninsula. We found that the species from Brunei Darussalam could also belong to this genus and represent the eastern-most record of this genus. We provide a key to known species of Cercoteratura, although it is likely that this genus is more speciose than currently known. We also present a morphological comparison of the three similar genera Cercoteratura, Kuzicus and Xiphidiopsis. 


1992 ◽  
Vol 70 (10) ◽  
pp. 1945-1949 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keiko Kitamura ◽  
Mohamad Yusof Bin Abdul Rahman

Agathis is a genus of tropical conifers that occurs mainly in Southeast Asia. Because of its production of good softwood, many stands of Agathis have been harvested. We provide an estimate of genetic variation within and among populations of Agathis borneensis in Brunei Darussalam, Southeast Asia. Five populations were investigated using isozyme electrophoresis. We investigated a total of 17 putative loci, five of which were polymorphic. Estimated total heterozygosity was 0.122. Heterozygosity within populations was 0.106. The population structure did not deviate significantly from Hardy–Weinberg expectations. Nei's coefficient of gene differentiation indicated that the among-population component of genetic diversity represents 14% of the total population component. The low level of genetic diversity and the large diversity among populations were the opposite of that for conifers in the temperate zone, because of the small size of each population. The large diversity among populations indicated the restricted gene flow resulting from the asynchronous flowering of this species. The genetic distance indicated that A. borneensis in Brunei could be classified in two groups, with one isolated population considerably different from the others both genetically and ecologically. The conservation strategy is discussed from the viewpoint of genetic resources. Key words: Agathis borneensis, Araucariaceae, Brunei Darussalam, genetic diversity, isozyme, tropical rain forest.


Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4247 (3) ◽  
pp. 301 ◽  
Author(s):  
MING KAI TAN ◽  
RODZAY BIN HAJI ABDUL WAHAB

Stictophaula Hebard, 1922 is a genus of katydid from the subfamily Phaneropterinae, and most similar to Arnobia Stål, 1876. A review of the genus Stictophaula reveals 26 species from Southeast Asia. One new species, Stictophaula bruneii sp. nov., is described from Brunei Darussalam. Nomenclature change is also verified: Arnobia ocellata comb. nov. An illustrated key to species is presented. 


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 471
Author(s):  
M Noor Harisudin ◽  
Muhammad Choriri

The legal sanction on marriage registration violations was intended to create equity within households and fulfill every citizen’s constitutional rights. However, the law enforcement efforts encountered some problems, especially in three Southeast Asia countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Brunei Darussalam. This article investigated the diversity of regulations on marriage registration violations in the countries and analyzed how Jasser Auda’s maqasid al-shariahperspective viewed the type of legal sanctions there. This study found that there were regulations on marriage registration violations in each country. However, while Malaysia and Brunei Darussalam imposed both financial penalty and imprisonment, Indonesia only charged fines for the culprits. In Jasser Auda’s perspective, the regulations in the countries, except Indonesia, were in line with maqasid al-shariah because firstly, they aimed at maintaining harmony in marriage and contained the aspect of serving the depth and breadth of public interest (maslahah) in terms of necessities (daruriyat). Secondly, the regulations had traversed basic conceptual approach and systems analysis.


2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Kai Tan ◽  
Rodzay bin Haji Abdul Wahab

The Orthoptera, comprising grasshoppers, crickets, and katydids, is diverse and species rich in tropical Southeast Asia, including the island of Borneo. However, not every part of Southeast Asia is equally well sampled and studied. This includes Brunei Darussalam, specifically at the Kuala Belalong Field Studies Centre (KBFSC) within the Ulu Temburong National Park. We present here an annotated and illustrated checklist of Orthoptera from the primary dipterocarp forest around Kuala Belalong based on three field trips in 2016 and 2017. We provide notes on their taxonomy (including how each species was identified) and natural history of species. In total, 72 species were recorded, representing eight of the 16 monophyletic orthopteran superfamilies. In total, 73.6% of all species recorded were singletons and doubletons, indicating that many species are probably rare. The collection led to the discovery of ten species new to science already published separately, with more expected to be described from pending material and confirmation. More species, including undescribed ones (at least four new species), are expected with continued sampling effort. Despite the 21 day-long surveying efforts from three trips around KBFSC, we believe that the species list provided here is non-exhaustive and only a preliminary one.


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