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Globalisation to Glocalisation: A Conceptual Exploration
Get PDFAbstract: The socio-cultural changes in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Singapore, can be beneficially examined in terms of the concepts of globalisation and glocalisation. The two concepts are related and their evolution and transformation highlight the tangled relationship between the discipline of sociology and globalisation. Although the sociological concepts and theories in the Western sociological discourses have a general import, there are problems in the application of these in the local contexts of Malaysia and Singapore. This calls for a critical and creative refinement of the concepts
Religious Harmony and Inter-faith Dialogue in the Writings of ḤAMKA
Get PDFAbstract: Born into a religious family, Ḥamka traveled extensively to acquire knowledge. Having gained mastery of Arabic, ḤAMKA translated the Qur’ān, commented extensively on its various aspects and used it as a tool for the purification of Islam in Indonesia. Analysing the relevant verses of the Qur’ān as interpreted by ḤAMKA, gives an insight into his idea of religious unity and his promotion of inter-religious dialogue in order to promote peace and harmony in Indonesia in particular and the world in general
Presidential Election in Afghanistan: Democracy in the Making
Get PDFAbstract: In accordance with Article 4 of the Bonn Agreement, the presidential election in Afghanistan was held on October 9, 2004. The election was a “real departure” from Afghanistan’s past and ushered in a legitimate constitutional system of governance. Hamid Karzai was elected the President and thus resulted in what can be called the “Pashtun comeback,” not “Pashtun dominance,” to the helm of power. The election, contrary to expectations, was not marred by ethnic, ideological and linguistic cleavages so characteristics of the Afghan society. Karzai’s government will be better advised to facilitate the creation of a “balanced party system” in Afghanistan
Salience of Ethnicity among Burman Muslims: A Study in Identity Formation
Get PDFAbstract: Muslims, constituting about thirteen percent of the total population of Myanmar or Burma are not a monolithic group and are unable to provide a united front in their struggle to realize their just demands. They are divided into many groups and their relationship with each other is conflictual. As the cases of Indian and Bamar (Burman) Muslims show, they rely upon ethnicity, rather than religion, for identity formation and self-expression
Islamic Reform in Malaya: The Contribution of Shaykh Tahir Jalaluddin
Get PDFAbstract: Reformation of religion does not entail changing the very teaching of Islam or the introduction of un-Islamic elements into Islam. Rather reformation of religion is a return to the original sources of Islam as practiced during the period of the Prophet (SAS) and early generations of muslims, unadulterated by the practices and beliefs that contravened Islam. This salafī reformist discourse, as the historical evidence shows, was adopted by Shaykh Tahir in his attempts to reform Islam in colonial Malaya
The Methodology of al-Tafsīr al-Mawḍū‘ī: A Comparative Analysis
No full textAbstract: The notion of thematic interpretation of the Qur’ān (al-tafsīr almawḍū‘ī) has attained a remarkable degree of conceptual and methodological clarity in the works of Muḥammad ‘Abd Allah Drāz, Muḥammad Maḥmūd Ḥijāzī, Muḥammad Bāqir al-Ṣadr and Fazlur Rahman. They provide cases that allow testing of methodological feasibility and intellectual fecundity of this approach to Qur’ānic exegesis. A common and important aspect of their works, as the textual analysis shows, is the attempt to search for a Qur’ānic conceptual framework for social theorization informed and guided by the fundamental Islamic world-view