INSKRIPSI HURUF ARAB DAN RAGAM HIAS PADA MASJID TUA AL-MUJAHIDIN KABUPATEN BONE SULAWESI SELATAN

Abstract

<p>Archaeology is history; archaeological research cannot be separatedfrom the history, because history<br />reveals the story of material culture. The Old Mosque is part of a cultural thing that will describe the<br />history of the Islamic society and the reconstruction of the mosque building in accordance with local<br />cultural character of local genius in its time. The Old Mosque of al-Mujahidin Watampone is the oldest<br />and the first mosque of the royal heritage of Bone in Islam development era. The mosque has specific<br />stylistic and architecture that describes how the Islamic symbols interacted with local culture and art.<br />The strong influence of Islamic teachings was implicitly reflected in a wide variety of the mosque<br />ornaments. This research aims to reveal the decoration and Arabic inscriptions located in the<br />Old Mosque, to promote the history and archaeological traces of the Islamic kingdom of Bone, and to<br />recommend to the local government of Bone to make Qadi's cemetery as part of archeological history<br />of the kingdom Bone that deserve to be considered by the community and the Government of Bone as a<br />cultural heritage of the archipelago to be protected as Objects of Cultural guaranteed by Indonesian<br />Law Number 5 of 1992 about Objects of Cultural Property. The research methodology was a field<br />research with a survey which is descriptive, archaeological, historical, and explanative on the Old<br />Mosque al-Mujahidin, Watampone, Bone regency, South Sulawesi. The techniques of collecting data<br />in this study were: literature data, field data (archaeological assessment, observation, and interviews),<br />documentation and recording, surface surveys, and the withdrawal of sampling. This study also used<br />the architectural analysis on the mosque, i.e. morphological, technological, stylistic, and contextual<br />analysis.</p>