Dangding as a literary work is only meaningful when chanted. When one just reads in his/her mind silently, dangding becomes dry and lacks of meaning. This paper discusses the position of Mustapa’s dangding in literary context and their relevance to contemporary Sundanese discourse. The main focus of this study is the character of his mystical verses, structural aspects of dangding as a Sufism…
The development of consumer culture that increasingly strengthe ned creates very significant cultural implications in sciety, Shift in the meaning of the commodity-value products in order to be a symbolic value, impact on changes in comsuption practices that originally was based on making the benefist of the exchange of goods became a symbol of space and social identity. Commodities in turn are…
This paper examines the influence of Persia in the history of Malay culture and litarature. Persian influence appears in prayers, religious ceremonies and the tendency towards Sufi ideas. It is also found in Malay vocabulary, types of writing, traditional literary romances known as hikayat, poetry and historical artikels. Further influence appears in Malay cultural values, canon law and religio…
Substantially, the spiritual teaching of sufism is not represented and represents one of gender group, male of female and sich. The sufism spiritual teaching has great universal scope for male and female. In the empirical domain, in fact, the spiritual teaching still conduct patrimonial culture behavior which makes the original Sufism spiritual teaching endangered to fail. This situation also h…
Pemahaman seseorang terhadap ajaran Islam tidak bisa datang dengan sendirinya, namun harus diupayakan secara maksimal dengan banyak membaca buku-buku yang berisi tentang ajaran-ajaran Islam dan belajar baik secara formal, non formal maupun informal. Dengan demikian maka pemahaman terhadap ajaran-ajaran Islam akan dia dapatkan dengan benar. Memahami ajaran Islam dengan benar dan menerapkannya da…
This paper examines the influence of Persia in the history of Malay culture and litarature. Persian influence appears in prayers, religious ceremonies and the tendency towards Sufi ideas. It is also found in Malay vocabulary, types of writing, traditional literary romances known as hikayat, poetry and historical texts. Further influence appears in Malay cultural values, canon law and religious …
In this global era, pluralism and multi cultures are challenge fached by ulama and intellectuals. The point of pluralism in religiousity is to be sure of the rightness of ourselves as well as trying to understand, respect, and accept the rightness of other people. The difference of religious belief needn't make us avoid theological and spiritual relationship. A religion should be humanistic. Ib…
Domestic violation agains wives is among the vexing problem that has deep roots in religious and theological teachings. Marginalization, discrimination and segregation of wives are among the results of the patriarchal outlook that perceives husband wife relation as master servant, superior inverior relationship. The culture of patriarchy, public domestic dichotomy, misleading domestic myth and …
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.