Language Of Islam Research Articles

The Impact of Direct Method Through 'Guess of Picture' on Improving Arabic Language Proficiency Among Students at Nurul Huda Islamic Primary School, Patihan Lamongan

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an and the language of Islam, with billions of followers worldwide. However, students nowadays are rarely interested in learning Arabic, which affects their learning outcomes. Therefore, the researcher is interested in examining the influence of the direct method using picture guessing on students' learning outcomes. The aim of this study is to determine the implementation, results, and influence of the direct method through picture guessing on Arabic learning outcomes at MI Nurul Huda Patihan Lamongan. The method used in this research is a quantitative method. The results of the study showed that the pre-test and post-test scores tested with the t-test resulted in a t-value greater than the t-table value, which was 12.954 > 2.042. This means that there is an influence of the direct method using picture guessing on students' learning outcomes.Keywords: Direct method; Arabic learning outcomes; Arabic language.

Formulating Policies for Halal Tourism in Indonesia Based on Islamic Law

This research aims to examine the implementation of Islamic law, the role of ulama’s thoughts and authority, and the appropriateness of government policies on halal tourism in Indonesia. A qualitative method was employed to gather primary data, specifically through a one-day symposium on “Halal Tourism and Hospitality” held by Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy in Semarang, Indonesia. This symposium invited 100 participants from various sectors, including the tourism and hospitality industry, government representatives, community leaders, and politicians. The data underwent content analysis utilising word cloud and narrative analysis for the preliminary and Leximancer and narrative analysis for the panel discussion. The study shows that the implementation of Islamic law in formulating halal tourism policies in Indonesia involves several steps and practices aimed at ensuring compliance with Islamic principles within the tourism industry. Furthermore, the thoughts and authority of ulama play a pivotal role in shaping and influencing policies related to halal tourism. Lastly, the Indonesian government has established policies consistent with Islamic principles, such as regulations on the management and provision of halal food, the development of family-friendly tourist destinations, the promotion of spiritual tourism, the prohibition of practices and services conflicting with sharia, the development of sharia-based ecotourism, and the utilisation of Islamic language and symbols in tourism promotion. The study contributes to identifying gaps and opportunities for further incorporating Islamic principles into tourism policies.

Studying and Learning Islam in Achieving Amal during Ramadan in the Community of Dusun Suka Makmur, Riau

The prosperous villagers were in the new village of rambah, kec. Rambah samo, kab. Tip upstream, prov. Riau is a society that has a strong desire to seek knowledge. The reasons for this desire are based on a society that has also begun to understand the Koran, the doctrine of Islam. Unfortunately, people's desires cannot be well expressed because there are some factors that cause them to be irresoluble and running. The lack of manpower and a da 'i in the village is one reason, not to mention a female daiyah or teacher. It is also felt by the taqwa mosque -- the people at the taqwa mosque -- have lost the will to learn because there is neither thrusters nor teachers. For women, there are no da 'iyah women salhaj salaf places to consult on the problems of women, to make women in these villages feel troubled, while women and children are desperately in need, their need for daiyah is so well described by the still many instances of misreading the Koran, still mistaking in worship (especially those that are included in the harmony of Islam), And the lack of understanding of women to the laws that pertain to women. The methods of this study use community based research (CBR), the findings of scientific research activities conducted have encouraged and given children and mothers the opportunity to be active and involved in increasing their love of the quran, Arabic and islamic language more deeply into women's fiqh laws during Ramadan.

Kata Serapan Bahasa Sasak Dari Bahasa Arab (Analisis Fonologis Dan Semantik)

Language is a sound system used by ethnic groups in expressing their desires with the applicable rules. The use of Sasak loanwords from Arabic through written and spoken language causes a change in writing in the Sasak language loanwords from Arabic. This causes a change in the form of the Arabic loanword into the Sasak language, because these two languages are two different languages. These changes can occur in phonological and morphological patterns. The two languages in the realm of morphology have different sequences and syllables in the occurrence of word formation, so there is a change in word class from the previous word class in syllables. Likewise at the phonological level, namely in the field of phonemes, both languages have their own rules. The entry of Islam in the Sasak lands became a determining factor for the Arabic language until it was heard by the Sasak people. The fact that the Qur'an as the foundation and source of Islamic law has made Arabic known as the Islamic language, until the implementation of worship, both obligatory and sunnah prayers using Arabic. With the close relationship between Islam and Arabic, where Islam spreads, Arabic is also starting to be known and used by the local community.

Islamic dogmatic texts in Pyotr Tolstoy’s translation of «The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire»: the first fixation of adhan in Russian literature

The article discusses supposedly the first fixation of the text of the adhan in Russian literature, which is found in the Russian translation of Paul Ricaut's treatise entitled «The History of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire». This translation was made from the Italian version by Pyotr Tolstoy during his stay in the Ottoman Empire in 1702–1714. Already in the English edition of the treatise of 1686 there are errors in the transliteration of the Arabic text of adhan, and its meaning is not fully conveyed. For the English reader, only takbir and shahada were translated, that are the most characteristic dogmatic formulae that Europeans could be familiar with from the other sources. The number of transliteration errors has increased in French and Italian translations. In the Polish translation, transliteration errors were corrected, but the gap in the transmission of content was not filled. Pyotr Tolstoy, not being an orientalist, did not make an attempt to critically comprehend the distorted transmission of Arabic fragments in the Italian translation of Historia and did not fill in the missing readings in the translation, for example, by attracting informants who knew the language and basic tenets of Islam. This is also not done during the re-preparation of the Russian translation for publication in 1741, and the Polish translation, which was partly used at that time for verification, was not referred in this case. Previous experiences of transmitting basic Islamic formulae also remain unfamiliar to Tolstoy, which is not surprising, given their fragmentation and occasional nature.

«Мы дадим прочесть тебе, и ты не забудешь!» (Коран, 87: 6). Рассказ о казанском хане и ловком везире

Purpose of the study: To analyze the text and present a translation of the latifeh anecdote about the clever vizier of the Kazan Khan. Research materials: The archive of Rizaetdin Fakhretdin. Results and scientific novelty of the study: the study is based on the publication and translation of the text, an anecdote – latifeh – about the clever vizier of the Kazan Khan who escaped death with the help of a cunning reading of an unvoiced Persian text in Arabic. The latifeh has been preserved in the archive and with a high degree of probability belongs to the pen of a very prolific poet and highly educated representative of the Muslim clergy of the Volga-Ural region, ‘Ali Chokry ((1827/28–1889). The list presented for research is currently stored in the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy Sciences in St. Petersburg. It is in its composition that the published anecdote is stored. This anecdote about “Sonkor-bik Kalanis” is also of Persian origin, since it arose in a Turkic environment where Farsi was well known. Perhaps it refers to the era of the Kazan Khanate, but we have no information about the existence in that state of the position of vizier under the khan. However, as an example of playing on words of an anecdotal nature, this story could well have appeared in the Volga region in the early Middle Ages. After all, it is based on the difference in reading the Arabic language and Turkic speech recorded in Arabic script. The Turks and Arabs faced this problem as soon as Islam penetrated the Turkic environment and their acquaintance with the Koran began. Thus, the “Latifeh about the Kazan Khan and his Vizier” is not just an interesting and funny anecdote, but an instructive philological puzzle that came to the mind of a sophisticated connoisseur of the three major languages of Islam – Arabic, Farsi, and Turkic.

Efforts to Utilise Resources to Facilitate Learning in Improving Teacher and Student Performance in Learning Islamic Religious Education Class XI Senior High School 6 Merangin

Background. Education is a conscious and planned effort to create a better human being in the future in the word Islamic language is insan kamil. then in its application, it always makes various kinds of educational innovations so that it can always keep up with the times and can survive in dealing with it. then the use of resources becomes important in this case so that what already exists and can be used as a tool to achieve educational goals can be used and used properly and correctly according to its function. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to evaluate resource utilisation, improve teacher skills, assess organisational effectiveness with the aim of improving teacher and student performance in class XI of state senior high school 6 Merangin. Method. This research uses qualitative research methods. Types and Sources of Data are Primary data and Secondary data. Data Collection Methods with Observation, Interview, Documentation, Techniques and Data Analysis with data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. Results. The results of this research are; 1) Tools, materials, devices, organisations and people related to the field of education at state senior high school 6 Merangin already exist and run only need to be controlled, 2) There are still educators, especially Islamic Religious Education, who are not optimal in using tools, materials, devices as a support for performance improvement, 3) Organisation that is already running should be further improved with good and clear control and communication. Conclusion. The conclusions of this research are; 1) Tools, materials, devices, organisations and people related to the field of education at state senior high school 6 Merangin already exist and run only need to be controlled, 2) There are still educators, especially Islamic Religious Education, who are not optimal in using tools, materials, devices as a support for performance improvement, 3) Organisation that is already running should be further improved with good and clear control and communication.

Family language policies during a global pandemic: challenges and opportunities for language maintenance in Arabic-English multilingual families in the USA

Abstract In this study, we analyze interview data from 17 mothers of Arabic-English multilingual families to examine their experiences of maintaining their children’s Arabic language development during the COVID-19 pandemic. We were interested in exploring the challenges they faced during the pandemic and their responses to those challenges with the resources available. Following a constant comparative method, our data analysis demonstrated that four main factors have impacted Arabic-English multilingual Muslim families’ language policies during the pandemic, i.e. (1) inner-family dynamics, (2) school closures, (3) children’s agency, and (4) family safety and wellbeing. Responding to those factors, participants’ family language policies were guided by their commitment to Arabic as the language of Islam (i.e. performing religious practices and maintaining connection with the written Islamic heritage) and as an indispensable component of their children’s ethno-religious identities. During the lockdown, when their children could not attend Arabic tutoring, mothers developed new strategies to support their children’s language socialization (e.g., Halaka, more frequent family visit, online tutoring). When schools switched to online learning, their children had more time to spend at home, which most mothers used as an opportunity to have their children practice Arabic more and, in some cases, conduct daily Arabic literacy tutoring at home. All those mothers’ creative responses to COVID-19 challenges were complexified by children’s agency and concerns about family safety and wellbeing.

In-between Calvinism and Islam: Ali Bey's Transcultural Translation of the Bible into Turkish in the Time of Confessionalization

Albertus Bobovius/Ali Ufkî Bey was a typical go-between of his time, a learned translator and convert who benefited from his double religious sensitivity. As a consequence, he was able to create a transcultural translation of the Bible in the 17th century. This paper brings context to these aspects of his life. Ali Ufkî Bey created his works on religion during a time of intensive confessionalization, when Istanbul was a hub for many political interests with various religious and cultural options intersecting in the Ottoman capital. The project of translating the Bible to the national languages of Islam was carried out according to the vision of an alliance between Islam and reformed Christian groups, supporting the thesis of Calvino-Turkism, promoted by John Amos Comenius. As oriental scholars were lacking sufficient command of Turkish, they had to commission highly qualified go-betweens. There were two competing plans: Dutch Calvinist and Anglican. Bobovius was a part of the Dutch plan, along with Yahya Bin Ishak, a Jewish dragoman. The strategies of translation chosen by Bobovius were very modern according to the present knowledge of the art of translation, but in his era, there were difficulties in choosing the right language register and the right religious imagery to find proper equivalents. Underestimated by his contemporaries, Bobovius was rehabilitated by today’s linguists, and his “Turkish Bible” is still in use today. The text does not contest the religious identity of the author of this translation of the Bible but presents the hybridity of this figure against the background of the wider historical and confessional context of 17th-century Istanbul. It also provides examples of Bobovius’s translation choices and an initial interpretation of his methodology of timeless transcultural translation, from the perspective of contemporary translation theories. In the light of contemporary transcultural studies, present-day scholarship may treat Ali Ufkî as a transcultural agent and a gifted go-between.

Anjuman, jami‘at, and association: what Sayyid organizations tell us about associational forms among Muslim caste groups

ABSTRACT In the early decades of the twentieth century in colonial India, the development of education, the expansion of electoral politics, and the decennial censuses led many caste communities, or ‘caste groups’, to organize collectively in search of internal solidarity and public assertion. Informed by the notions of service and reform, Muslims participated in this new associationism. Among them, the Sayyids – a privileged status group that claims descent from Prophet Muhammad – also formed their organizations. This article compares three Sayyid organizations in India and Pakistan, with two principal aims. First, it brings out the implicit notions of inclusion and exclusion that inform the functioning of the organizations as they seek community preservation. Second, it draws broader conclusions about associational forms available to South Asian Muslims when they act collectively on the basis of a shared social status or caste. The article concludes by delineating three ‘organizational models’ that Muslim caste groups can draw upon – the anjuman, the jami‘at, and the association. Overall, this article illustrates how Muslims frame practices of social distinction in an Islamic language of equality, piety, or service.

Revolutionizing Islamic Religious Education in the Age of Society 5.0 through Curriculum Innovation at Merdeka Learning Merdeka Campus (MBKM)

The existing Islamic religious education curriculum shows a clear separation between subjects like Al-Qur'an, Hadith, Fiqh, Aqidah, and the history of Islamic culture. Full integration of these elements is lacking, but it has the potential to improve students' religious experiences by providing comprehensive support for worship. Madrasah institutions face challenges related to ownership, environment, and teachers adapting to technological advancements in the current era. This study aims to explore how PAI (Islamic Religious Education) teachers implement innovative approaches in madrasahs. Employing a qualitative research design with a literature review methodology, information was gathered from various regulations, books, and magazines. We opted for a qualitative approach to explore innovative curriculum changes that can improve the quality of millennial-era madrasahs with Islamic characteristics. The literature review exposed a predominant focus on subject-centric designs influenced by teachers and infrastructure in constructing Islamic religious education curricula in madrasahs. In response, a proposed ideal model emphasizes an integrated learning approach tailored for the millennium era. This model strives to enhance Islamic language skills through integration. The study concludes by underlining key themes: innovation, curriculum development, Islamic religious education, madrasah, and the era of Society 5.0.

From global language use to local meanings: Arabic to Indonesian absorption

Arabic being one of the oldest languages in the world, has made significant contributions to other languages including Indonesian. Some Indonesian vocabulary along with its development has been adopted from Arabic. This paper not only aims to map the absorption words in various categories, but also to analyze the factors of Arabic absorption into Indonesian. Descriptive qualitative method is used to explore the data in the text. The data is analyzed in four stages: data reduction, data display, data verification, and conclusion drawing. This study shows that the adoption of Arabic into Indonesian tends to be on words related to Islam, which relate to function, morality, death, and the occult. The language absorption cannot be separated from the history of Islam in Indonesia as the language of Islam (Arabic) colors Indonesian culture. Further research can sharpen the semantic analysis because the absorbed words experience reduction and degradation of meaning.

Conjuring Green: Jacques Derrida’s Plants

Taking its point of departure in a childhood memory of Derrida around raising silkworms, this essay explores the urgency invoked in the same memory of ‘conjuring green’. Following the polysemy of the French verb ( conjurer means to ‘ward off’, ‘cause (a spirit or ghost) to appear’, ‘implore’, and literally, ‘swear together’), the conjured green binds the child and later the writer surreptitiously to both the community and language of Islam, in which the colour green evokes the gardens of paradise, and the infinitely differentiated proliferation of plants whose anthology encroaches upon and undermines any ontology. Along the meandering lines of Derrida’s meditation on the conjured, warded-off, mourned and celebrated green, the Qur’anic Muslim’s joy and radiance whose roots are the same as those for ‘vividness’ and ‘flourishing’, are grafted onto Hildegard von Bingen’s viriditas, the greening power or force which the German mystic Hildegard von Bingen understood as the living soul of creation; and Darwin’s discovery of the movement of plans as ‘circumnutation’, a Derridian term avant la lettre, that captures the dynamic of plants in Derrida’s Glas.

Integrating democracy learning and prophetic social studies at Baitusalam Islamic School Yogyakarta

This paper describes an attempt to integrate Islamic and scientific values into social studies education with the aim of developing prophetic social science theory to explain social problems from this perspective. The study focuses on the implementation of this theory at Baitusalam Islamic School in Yogyakarta, using qualitative research methods such as observation, interviews, and documentation. The findings suggest that social studies learning Islamic values that develop boarding power, with the learning process incorporating these values into planning, implementation, and assessment. However, the study also identifies challenges in the integration process, such as the lack of student textbook references that integrate values into Islamic language for each material, insufficient learning media, and inadequate infrastructure in schools. Overall, this study highlights the importance of integrating Islamic and scientific values into social studies education to develop young people's sense of nationalism, independence, and character, while acknowledging the need to address these challenges for effective implementation.

The Perception of Spatial Atmosphere in Traditional and Modern Mosques in Aesthetic Context

The concept of aesthetic has been transformed and re-contextualized through the consecutive centuries to find a stable place in the discipline of architecture. We may claim that the stability has been generally provided by spaces having the power of affecting its experiencers emotionally by the help of sensory perception. The discipline of phenomenology set the theoretical scene for such experience quality in architectural spaces, which can be analyzed in historical, social, and religious contexts.
 In this framework, the article aims to emphasize the significance of the relationship between the disciplines of aesthetics and architecture in Turkey through the aesthetic image of the spatial atmosphere via the evaluations of experiencers of the mosques in traditional and modern styles to comprehend the image of aesthetic experience. Methodologically, the analysis is based on an online questionnaire to understand the perceptual differences of the survey participants based on the image of aesthetic experience in these two different mosque styles. In conclusion, the Sancaklar and Selimiye Mosques show that, although the experiencers were open to the new concepts in contemporary mosque designs, their religious teachings with the traditionalist background generally prevent them adopting the Sancaklar Mosque. Thus, the majority of the survey participators preferred to visit and pray in the Selimiye Mosque as the masterpiece of the Ottoman style while the Sancaklar Mosque reflecting the modern approach was found insufficient to manifest the traditional Islamic language that the survey participators are accustomed to.

Student Motivation to Learn Arabic in Sidoarjo Regency

This study aims to describe what motivates students to learn Arabic at Ma'had Umar Bin Al-Khattab Sidoarjo. This research is a qualitative descriptive study, the techniques used to collect data are direct and open observation techniques, unstructured interviews, and documentation. The results of this study indicate that most of the motives for learning Arabic for female students found an important point, namely that the motive for learning Arabic for female students of Ma'had Umar Bin Al-Khattab was the desire to learn religion. learn Arabic in various ways, namely: (a) In-depth understanding of what is said in prayer (b) Understanding what he reads from the verses of the Qur'an so that he can be guided by it and learn from it c) because of orders from people (d) the ability to study Islamic sciences from books written in Arabic, (e) because the place of study is not mixed with men (f) the ability to communicate with Muslims, because Arabic is the language of the nation Islam in this world.

World Englishes, secularisation, and de-secularisation: examining English language textbooks in a Muslim society from the perspective of language as situated practice

ABSTRACT The ideological role of English, beyond its instrumental value, is reported to be immense. British colonial rule deployed English as an ideological tool which facilitated colonial subjugation and religious conversion. Connections between English and evangelism have widened in the postcolonial and globalising world, leading to labelling English as a missionary language. Acknowledging the association of English with Christianity, scholars have called for examining relationships between English and other religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. The relationship of English with Islam is especially complex. While its global spread has encouraged Muslims to utilise it as an Islamic language, English has also been used by the post-9/11 West for moderating Islam. How have Muslim-majority societies responded to English in this complex ideological and geopolitical terrain? How do they manage English teaching in their secular and religious streams of education? This article examines how education policymakers in Bangladesh have dealt with the imperatives of secularisation for mainstream education and de-secularisation for religious education by localising English along the line of world Englishes. Taking the perspective of language as situated practice, I illustrate how the same English language textbooks are used for different ideological goals, with educational, social, and political implications.

Overviewing a Century. The Lahore-Ahmadiyya Mosque Archive in Berlin

Abstract In 1923, Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat ve Islam with headquarters in Lahore (hereafter: Lahore-Ahmadiyya) sent the pedagogue Maulvi Sadr-ud-Din to Berlin commissioned to erect a mosque, create a mission and enter in conversation with the Europeans. The European mission was a comprehensive answer to the challenge that the British Empire presented to Muslims. In their hometown, Lahore, Lahore-Ahmadiyya aimed at comparing religions in order to push back British missionaries and disprove Christian claims to superiority. Adapting to the German setting, which in the years to come would swiftly move from democratic to nationalistic politics, the mission in Berlin created many variations on that theme. Today, the mosque registry, holding records of almost 100 years of administration, bears witness to the efforts of the missionaries to explain to various German audiences their view of Islam. An important source for Muslim history in Germany, the archive highlights such different research subjects as Muslim modernity at work, the language of secular Islam, Indian-German approximations, conversion, and mixed marriage. In 2018, it was donated to the National Archive in Berlin, where the approximately 70,000 documents and 5,000 photographs were made available for research. This contribution offers an analysis of the contents.

Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia

Languages, Scripts, and Chinese Texts in East Asia

Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia

Gulnaz Sibgatullina, Languages of Islam and Christianity in Post-Soviet Russia