Muslim merchants were active as traders from the seventh century. Several archipelago Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms established commercial and diplomatic connections with middle Eastern Islamic rulers. Archaeological evidence pointing to this fact has been found at a shipwreck site in the Java Sea near Cirebon. Among the discovered trade goods were indications of Islam in the form of a stamp-moul…
Status and position of women is a central part of gender studies. In this topic, correlation between gender and religion, including Islam, is undisputable. The main question is whether Islam improves position of women or in contrast degrades it. This question is even harder to answer if we compare between the era of the coming of Islam and the later era when the prophet has passed away. The pap…
The change of social structure is indicated by the change of family structure traditional family structure to modern one. Any kinds of family structure need its members knowledge, understanding, loyality bound, and tolerance. This article is about to describe local wisdom found in Madurese literarture, particularly how it is applied in daily life. It shows that the member of family must posess …
This paper tried to reveal the development of traditional grammar, which began by tracking the origin of human language, viewed from various perspectives, religion, philosophy, and linguistic controversy that occurred from the time of Palto, Aristotle, to Dionysius Thrax. Descriptive analysis used in this paper given by the difficulty of tracking the sources of successful record which is writte…
There are many kinds of pesantren [Islamic Boarding School] categorized in different perspective. Based on liberal views, there are pesantren salafiy [traditional] and pesantren khalafiy [modern]. Nowadays, there terms, namely, salafiy and khalafiy just to differenciate easily, because this category still has problems. Generally, the traditional Islamic boarding school [salafiy] needs more deve…
Malaria is still the most dengeraous parasitic disease in the tropics. Attempts to provide alternative treatmens which are highly efficaciaous, safe and widely available i,e. traditional medicine is therefore, required. Asam gelugur [garcinia atroviridis griff t anders] i9s one of tradicional medicines which has been recognized as an effective antimalarial drug. This study is therefore, aimed t…
The Badui community has been living according to their ancestor's strict rules in the south part of banten since 600 years ago. Although they live not far from modern culture, yet they still maintain their traditional culture. Research was done to describe indigenous knowledge of badui which related to agrecultural practice and forest conservation.hety.
The aim of this paper is simply to describe to content of a book by Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Ishaq Ibn Khuazaymah al Nisaburi al Shafi'i called Sahih Ibn Khuzaymah. The book deals mainly with the tradition of the prophet. A deeper analysis on the book however reveals that is also contains a fairly good exposition of fiqh and its general rules. In this paper we would try to unlock this aspect of th…
On the issue of religious pluralism one may find different currents of throught ranging from that which rejects it to that which accepts it. A Part from this, the issue of religious pluralism has also provoked scholars of difeferent backgrouds-Muslim and Western scholars-to have their say concerning this very important problem. One of those scholars is Seyyed Hossein Nasr who proposed what he c…