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The representation of Islamic values within Sang Piatu folktale in Kedurang society
Full text linkFolktales contain various life values that society can emulate. Through folktales, readers or listeners can enhance their cognitive abilities and character. The Sang Piatu folktale from the Kedurang offers a range of knowledge and important values to be taught. This research aims to analyze the Islamic values in the folktale of Sang Piatu and the community’s perspective on the existence of this tale in conveying Islamic education. This research is qualitative method. The results of this study indicate that the folktale of Sang Piatu provides Islamic values, namely, morals and etiquette that are very important to be taught to children, such as the obligation to perform prayers, the habit of giving alms, the activity of reciting the Quran, and the habit of maintaining ablution and worshipping at the mosque. Islamic behavior is also demonstrated in the tale of Sang Piatu, such as loving parents, respecting others, and helping one another. From the community’s perspective, the tale of Sang Piatu is conveyed using storytelling techniques accompanied by reviews of the goodness within so children will understand the values contained in the story. This research has a positive impact on shaping the behavior of children to practice Islamic teachings in real life
Enhancing disability satisfaction through vocational training and inclusive programs: Evidence from pls-sem modeling
Full text linkThis study investigates the influence of vocational training effectiveness, disability independence, and program inclusivity on disability satisfaction. A quantitative approach was utilized, involving 150 respondents from various vocational training and inclusivity programs. The data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings reveal that vocational training effectiveness (β = 0.240, p < 0.05) and program inclusivity (β = 0.432, p < 0.001) have significant positive effects on disability satisfaction. These results highlight the critical role of tailored training programs and inclusive environments in enhancing the well-being and satisfaction of individuals with disabilities. However, the study found that disability independence does not significantly affect satisfaction (β = 0.120, p > 0.05). This suggests that vocational training and inclusivity may be more immediate drivers of satisfaction than independence alone. These findings underscore the importance of creating comprehensive policies that focus not only on skill development but also on promoting inclusivity in both vocational and broader social settings. Future research should explore additional mediators between disability independence and satisfaction and consider longitudinal studies to better understand these factors’ long-term impact on individuals with disabilities
Community participation in realising the digital reading corner programme: A case study in Tebing Tinggi City, Indonesia
Full text linkThe decreasing interest in reading books has resulted in books being replaced by digital media. Changes in community behavior in the era of disruption occur because people are more interested in information obtained through online news that is spread on various websites and social media. This study aims to determine community participation in the implementation of Pondok Baca Digital (Henceforth POCADI) or the Digital Reading Corner program in Tebing Tinggi City which focuses on community involvement in utilizing the POCADI program to increase reading interest and digital literacy in Tebing Tinggi City. This research used descriptive qualitative research methods. The data collection techniques were interviews, observation and documentation. The results show that the POCADI program still has not shown a positive impact in increasing interest in reading and literacy in the community. Community participation in this program has not been carried out optimally at each stage. Especially at the implementation stage, where the community has not fully utilized POCADI as a reading place that supports an increase in interest in reading and digital literacy in the community
Regional variation and social context in Limola society
Full text linkLimola language in Sassa Village, Baebunta District, North Luwu Regency, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, is included in the minority language with a critical language status. The dominance of other languages makes this language have an alternative name, namely Lemolang language. This name was given by Tae language speakers who are more dominant in North Luwu Regency. This dominance makes the name Lemolang better known than Limola. This is because the people in Sassa Village prefer to use Tae language in everyday communication. In connection with this, this study examines language variations in Sassa Village. This aims to correct the name of the Lemolang language to Limola empirically. In addition, this study also aims to identify the language situation in Sassa Village. The research method uses a mixed method, both quantitative and qualitative. Data collection techniques include interviews and direct observation. Data analysis of this study was carried out using a dialectological and sociolinguistic approach. The results of the study show that Sassa Village has five languages, namely Limola, Tae, Rampi, Javanese, and Sasak. The many language variations in Sassa Village are due to the presence of immigrants through the transmigration program in the past.
The Influence of Digital platforms, E-books, and Online publishing on the creation and dissemination of literature
Full text linkThis study is significant for different stakeholders in the world of literacy and provides valuable insight for the author. It helps to understand the effect of modern technologies in shaping literature’s consumption, distribution, and reaction by informing marketing efforts and strategic decision-making. The studies show how digital platforms, e-books, and online publishing have changed the dissemination and creation of literature in many ways, such as Accessibility, diverse publishing opportunities, interactivity and multimedia integration, global reach and culture exchange, data analytics, and personalization
A Study of impact on English language skill using content and language integrated learning approach adopting blended teaching
Full text linkThe current research aims to study language learning skill enrichment impact on EFL/ESL learners through the use of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach adopting blended teaching. With education shifting from knowledge acquisition to competency-based learning, and the post-pandemic demands of teaching online becoming a norm, a contextually relevant language teaching approach at school level has become necessary to investigate. In the current study, blended teaching denotes a combination of physical mode and the live online or web-based technology tools used teaching. Likewise, CLIL denotes content integrated language learning where content of various academic disciplines is used as teaching resource to provide the cognitive load, to achieve the objective language skill in English language Teaching (ELT). The quantitative study includes two groups (n=25) experimental group and (n=25) controlled group with the heterogenous mix of boys and girls of 15-16 years age selected from an online English School of India. The selected student sample had exposure to English language learning in an academic setting for at least ten years in the international curriculum prior to study. The results of the study are measured analysing the data of student’s pre-test, post-test and the delayed post-test conducted before, during and after the treatment respectively. For comprehending the attitude towards learning, a survey questionnaire has been used. The results demonstrate the performance of the experimental group in language skill development and maturity in thoughts has incremental improvement when compared to the conventional teaching of form focused language skill acquisition in the physical setting
Dialectical engagement with biblical narratives in Ibn ‘Ashur\u27s Tafsīr Al-Taḥrīr wa Al-Tanwīr: Study of Aaron, Jesus, and Noah\u27s Wife narratives
Full text linkThe historical marginalization of direct engagement with Biblical texts within Islamic exegetical traditions has contributed to an ahistorical perception of the Qur\u27ān\u27s narrative relationship with Judeo-Christian traditions. While classical mufassirūn (exegetes) predominantly relied on orally transmitted Isrā\u27īliyyāt narratives rather than engaging directly with Biblical texts, this methodological limitation began to shift significantly in the colonial era. This article examines the critical dialectic methodology employed by Muhammad al-Tahir Ibn \u27Ashur (1879-1973) in his magnum opus, al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr, as a pivotal epistemological intervention in modernist Qur\u27anic hermeneutics. Operating within the complex socio-intellectual landscape of French colonial Tunisia, Ibn ‘Āshūr developed a sophisticated hermeneutical framework that directly engaged Biblical texts while simultaneously challenging their narratological authority. Through comparative textual analysis of three paradigmatic narratives—the Golden Calf episode (QS. Ṭāhā), the Christology of Jesus/\u27Isa (QS. Maryam), and the status of Noah\u27s wife (QS. Taḥrīm)—this study reveals how Ibn \u27Ashur\u27s critical dialectic represents an epistemological negotiation between traditional Islamic exegetical principles and modern text-critical methodologies. The findings demonstrate that Ibn \u27Ashur\u27s approach transcends mere apologetics by constructing a multi-layered hermeneutical framework that simultaneously validates the Qur\u27anic narrative through rational argumentation, historical contextualization, and linguistic analysis while positioning it as an epistemologically superior corrective to perceived Biblical inconsistencies. This research contributes to the evolving understanding of Muslim intellectual responses to modernity and colonialism through textual engagement, revealing how comparative scriptural hermeneutics functioned as both intellectual resistance and epistemological restructuring in early 20th century Islamic reformis
When a Secular Religion is sought: Finding Religion in Literature
No full textReligions have profoundly shaped humanity by offering moral guidance, existential solace, and answers to their super sensory experiences. Nevertheless, they have fostered dogmatism, discouraged ontological enquiry and incited hostilities resulting in division, riots and wars. Despite these glitches, religions’ influence persists and will likely flourish. This raises a critical question: are conventional religions the only way to address the needs they claim to fulfil, or are there secular alternatives that can provide similar benefits without their associated negativity?
Mathew Arnold famously said poetry could offer moral and spiritual guidance in a secular age. Frederick Nietzsche proposed that humanity should turn to art and culture for meaning and value. Drawing on insights from such poets and philosophers, this paper claims that literature and art can also address the issues that religions claim to address and that too in a better way. By, applying a qualitative and interpretative methodology, this study analyses key literary and religious texts to reveal how literature and art resonate with the themes of religion without the glitches associated with them. Thus, it is argued that literature and art have the potential to serve as a viable alternative to traditional religions which are increasingly problematic in contemporary pluralistic modern society
A dream deferred: Youth, disillusionment, and the postcolonial city in Meja Mwangi’s urban fictions
Full text linkThis paper re-examines Meja Mwangi’s early urban trilogy—Kill Me Quick (1973), Going Down River Road (1976), and The Cockroach Dance (1979)—as a literary intervention into the structural failures of postcolonial Kenya and the exclusions of the African literary canon. Despite his early prominence, Mwangi has often been marginalised in favour of canonical figures such as Achebe, Ngũgĩ, and Soyinka, whose works have shaped dominant expectations of African literature through allegory, resistance, and symbolic density. Mwangi’s fiction, by contrast, blends social realism with Kafkaesque absurdity to depict the psychic and material toll of postcolonial disenchantment. Framed through postcolonial theory and Marxist social analysis, this study argues that Mwangi critiques the unfulfilled promises of independence by portraying a cycle of exclusion, bureaucratic inertia, and deferred development. His protagonists—unemployed youth, informal labourers, and urban tenants—embody the systemic disenfranchisement of a generation. Rather than offering redemptive closure, Mwangi constructs a fictional cartography of alienation and absurdity, in which survival becomes the only form of resistance. His trilogy not only anticipates contemporary youth precarity, but also challenges the aesthetic hierarchies that have shaped African literary value. Reclaiming Mwangi’s work thus compels a rethinking of the canon’s boundaries and the politics of literary recognition
The role of the Al-Abdari family in the flourishing of the scientific movement in Al-Andalus
Full text linkThis study presents an in-depth analysis of the role of the Abdari family as a distinguished model of the “scholarly families” that formed the foundation of Islamic civilization in Andalusia. The importance of this family is not limited to the individual contributions of its members; rather, it is evident in its institutional nature, which ensured the continuity of scientific production and the transmission of knowledge across successive generations. This contributed significantly to preserving the cultural and scientific fabric during periods of political turmoil. The family’s contributions were distinguished by their rare diversity and encompassed three main scientific fields: first, religious sciences, where its members excelled in Quranic recitations, exegesis, Prophetic hadith, and Maliki jurisprudence, and held positions of judge and fatwa issuer. second, the humanities, where they enriched the Arabic library with pioneering contributions in grammar, morphology, literature, poetry, and history, reflecting a profound awareness of the importance of language and the nation’s identity. Third, rational sciences, whose contributions extended to the fields of medicine, pharmacology, and arithmetic (mathematics), embodying the integration between traditional and rational sciences that characterized Islamic civilization at its peak. The study relied on the historical-analytical approach, tracing the biographies of family members in various historical and literary sources, enabling the development of a comprehensive picture of their collective role. It also analyzed the factors that ensured the continuity of this phenomenon, most notably: the early scientific education system within the family, the organic connection to educational institutions such as mosques and schools, the extensive network of relationships with scholars from the East and West, and the inheritance of academic and administrative positions. The study concludes that the Abdari family was not merely a nucleus of isolated scholars, but rather represented a comprehensive, micro-scientific institution that served as a fundamental cell in the body of Islamic civilization in Andalusia. This study not only provides a qualitative addition to the history of science in Andalusia, but also presents a rich historical model that can be used to understand the mechanisms of knowledge production, transmission, and sustainability in Islamic societies