Muslim Lifestyle Research Articles

The History of Postmodernism and Its Impact on Muslim Lifestyle in Malaysia

This article aims to explore the history of postmodernism and its impact on Muslim lifestyles in Malaysia. The emergence of postmodernism is inevitable in the Muslim world due to daily interaction among cultures, religions, and ideologies through various mediums of communication. The notions of scepticism, subjectivism or relativism, and suspicion of reason nurture postmodernist way of thinking and reasoning. Then, it jeopardises the absolute sources of the Islamic way of life specifically the Quran and Hadith. One pertinent question is how does postmodernism affect the lifestyle of Muslims? Primary and secondary data are needed to be collected to answer the question and achieve the aims of this article. Thus, methods of data collection were documentation on the history of postmodernism, and observation on social media regarding the lifestyle of Muslims in Malaysia. The collected data were analysed using comparative, deductive, and inductive analyses. Findings exhibit that the system of secular education and social media exposed Muslim society in Malaysia to the postmodernism lifestyle that jeopardised Islamic teaching. Modern lifestyle demands Muslim society to discard traditional ways of thinking based on religion, and nurture stressful minds and soul. In conclusion, empowering the Islamic education in promoting an Islamic lifestyle is pivotal to nurturing healthy mind and soul in the postmodernism era.

Quality of Sleep in the Saudi Population During the Holy Month of Ramadan.

Background The holy month of Ramadan carries a massive change in a Muslim's lifestyle. During these 30 days of all-day fasting, people in Saudi Arabia prefer staying up all night and sleeping in the daytime, thus highly impacting their regular sleeping schedule, with a sizable effect on the quality of sleep. This study aimed to measure the quality of sleep and sleep hygiene practices in the Saudi population. Methodology This cross-sectional study was conducted among the Saudi population during the holy month of Ramadan. A self-administered questionnaire was sent to the targeted population using social media platforms. Our questionnaire included demographic data, the Sleep Quality Scale (SQS) to measure sleep quality, and the Sleep Hygiene Index (SHI) to measure sleep hygiene practices. Results Of the 386 participants, 71.2% were females, and 64.5% were single. The total mean SQS score was 35.8 (SD = 10.9) out of 84 points, while the total mean SHI score was 19.8 (SD = 8.61) out of 52 points. Overall, 63.5% of the respondents had poor sleep hygiene practices. Significant factors for increased SHI included being unmarried, a student, not the main provider in the family, not a parent, and earning less than 5,000 SAR per month while having more than six individuals in the family was a significant factor for increased SQS. Conclusions During the month of Ramadan, poor sleep quality and inadequate sleep hygiene practices were common among the Saudi population. A significant risk factor for poor sleep quality was having more than six individuals at home while being unmarried, a student, not being the family's main provider, and earning less than 5,000 SAR per month were the significant risk factors for poor sleep hygiene practices. Further research is needed to establish the effect of poor sleep quality and inadequate sleep hygiene practices during Ramadan fasting in our region.

Living an ethical ‘Muslim lifestyle’ within and beyond neoliberal governmentalities: discourse and practice of a youth-led British Muslim charity

ABSTRACT In the early 2010s the then Conservative-led coalition UK government implemented its ‘Big Society’ agenda for the neoliberal renegotiation of the relationship between the state, civil society, and individual citizens. More or less inadvertently, Big Society opened up spaces for everyday ethical agency and postsecular rapprochement. In this environment, faith-based organisations enjoyed a renewed role in the British public sphere, presenting both areas of resonance where neoliberal forms have been co-constituted; and areas of dissonance where neoliberal forms have been resisted. This contribution presents how the youth-led British Muslim charity Muslim Action for Development and the Environment (MADE) inserted itself at the intersection of these spaces, by articulating and trying to enlist young British Muslims into a project of ethical ‘Muslim lifestyle’ – that is, one where everyday ethical agency and pious self-cultivation are mutually integrated and shaped through a constant engagement with, and commitment to, the Islamic tradition. At one level, MADE’s discourse and practices replicated technologies of agency and ‘ideal citizen’ subjectivities constructed by Big Society. However, MADE also resisted this mode of governmentality (and wider neoliberal forms) by explicitly grounding its motivations, values, and norms within an Islamic ethical framework that it self-confidently mobilised as a hopeful counternarrative.

ANALISIS MODEL MANAJEMEN PERMINTAAN SCM NETWORK DAN PERAMALAN PERMINTAAN PADA PENJUALAN BUSANA MUSLIM MENGGUNAKAN METODE LINEAR REGRESSION

Supply chain management is very important for a company because it will affect supply performance in the company. Doing business in this era has many challenges that must be faced, especially in the Muslim clothing business. The way to stabilize the demand diagram of the Muslim clothing business, retailers are required to manage the supply chain so that they can meet the total demand. The object of this research is Rabbani Cirebon which was obtained from a literature study published in a journal entitled "Trend of Muslim Lifestyle Changes" from Banjarmasin State Polytechnic. The journal has sales data based on product types from monthly in 2016. From this data will be processed and analyzed using data analysis techniques. This data analysis technique uses time series forecasting data analysis techniques. From this time series method, this research uses moving average and linear regression. After modeling the data, the forecast error is measured using MAD, MAPE, RMSE, and MSE. The overall MSE results were 103731.8 and RMSE 322.0743. The benefit of demand forecasting is to reduce the Bullwhip Effect, plan future resources, for example, such as stock management, place control, product distribution, and demand for raw materials so as to make the right decisions. The results showed that the linear regression method has better forecasting than the moving average because linear regression has a smaller error rate than the moving average. But even so, the error rate of this study is still very large, so it is necessary to do more research to minimize the error rate.

Cosmopolitanism, Sociability and Assemblages of Symbolic Resources among Youths Attracted by Islam

Abstract On the basis of ethnographic fieldwork carried out among youths living in Montreal (Canada) who are interested in Islam and adopt some elements of a Muslim lifestyle, I show how affinities with Islam arise from sociability practices with friends of Muslim background and relate to the cultural diversification of secular societies. By combining network analysis with narrative analysis, I examine how youths interpret and make sense of these interactions and propose a critical view of their cosmopolitan discourses. While the latter is grounded in a universalist rhetoric, I argue it also unfolds within the intimacy of sociability experiences and shared emotions. Youth’s cosmopolitanism draws on cultural repertoires that stem from public education programs and local strategies to promote peaceable cohabitation in secular contexts. Consequently, youth competencies for cosmopolitanism lead to ongoing conversations that make differences and divergences within sociability spaces new sites to negotiate intercultural encounters in highly diversified localities.

Dina Torkia’s Modestly: Beauty work, autobiographical habitus and the modest fashion influencer

The article examines the Islamic fashion vlogger Dina Torkia’s book Modestly in terms of the ways in which it combines beauty and fashion advice and tutorials relating to modest fashion, hijab styling and cosmetics application. Through a critical discourse analysis of the book’s narrative and its many beauty- and fashion-based images, the article stresses how, having gained renown as a social media-based influencer and vlogger, Torkia’s book represents a remediated approach to communication practices of beauty and style advice. Hence, in a printed book form, Modestly consistently combines instruction with autobiographical content. In this regard, the article explores the differing ways that Modestly articulates expressions of Bourdieu’s concept of habitus in the context of modest Islamic fashion. This is explored in terms of the nature of the beauty and fashion instruction that is the main focus of the book, but also in how the autobiographical aspects of the text articulate Torkia’s self-reflections on cultural and sartorial habitus in relation to a Muslim lifestyle, modest dress and beauty conventions and changing perceptions and articulations of cultural hybridity and intersectional identity.

STUDY ON THE DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF SHARIA HOTELS IN THE CITY OF JEMBER

Pertumbuhan sektor ekonomi Islam termasuk pariwisata syariah telah memacu pengelolaan bisnis berbasis syariah menjadi semakin marak. Khusus pada sektor pariwisata, tentunya tidak dapat dilepaskan dari bisnis akomodasi atau dalam penelitian ini difokuskan pada bisnis perhotelan. Penelitian ini bertujuan Untuk mengetahui potensi dan urgensi pengembangan perhotelan berbasis syariah di kota Jember, mengetahui persepsi masyarakat dan wisatawan terhadap potensi pengembangan perhotelan berbasis syariah. Analisa data yang digunakan adalah deskriptif dan SWOT dengan jumlah sampel 110 responden masyarakat, dan 150 responden wisatawan. Hasil penelitian menunjukan (1) wisatawan mempunyai persepsi yang baik terhadap pengembangan hotel berbasis syariah, (2) masyarakat mempunyai persepsi nilai yang cukup baik terhadap pengembangan hotel berbasis syariah, (3) potensi yang dimiliki Kota Jember sehingga dapat dijadikan bahan rujukan pengembangan hotel berbasis syariah diantaranya mayoritas penduduk muslim, kesadaran dan gaya hidup masyarakat yang mendukung pengembangan hotel berbasis syariah.

PELATIHAN MARKETING PUBLIC RELATIONS BAGI STAKEHOLDERS PARIWISATA DI OBJEK WISATA STONE GARDEN BANDUNG BARAT

The trend of Muslim tourism continues to increase along with the awareness of Muslims to apply the Muslim lifestyle. The Muslim lifestyle affected the demands of halal tourism packages — one of the attractions that are trying to hold a halal tour package, namely Stone Garden. Several obstacles are found related to the realization of Stone Garden into halal tourist destinations, namely the limited human resources, infrastructure, facilities, and coaching patterns from the manager. To foster human resources in the activities of tourism services and tourism promotion needs to be improved through the implementation of Marketing Public Relations training for tourism destination managers in facing the challenges of the increasingly globalized tourism market. The training held at the Stone Garden Tourism Awareness Group secretariat with participants from tourism agents, tourist managers, and tour guides. The training methods used are discussion, lecture, and case simulation. The results of the training showed that the knowledge and communication skills of Marketing Public Relations communication among the actors, managers, and tour guides in the Stone Garden area experienced a considerable increase which was shown by participants understanding the importance of communication in community-based tourism management. 
 Keywords: Marketing Public Relations, Training, Tourism, Stakeholders, Halal Tourism

Demography, demand and devotion: driving the Islamic economy

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyse three drivers of the Islamic economy: global Muslim demography; operational sectors and demand; and faith-based consumerism.Design/methodology/approachThis paper follows a constructivist approach to the Islamic economy, undertaken through an exploratory study of global Muslim population, the growth in opportunities in the Islamic economy and plurality of religious thought across the diaspora.FindingsThe research finds four trends (t) positively impacting the growth of the Islamic economy: (t1) above-nominal increase in global Muslim population, with greater intra-religious interactions of varying Muslim cultures; (t2) an increasing demand for a diversity of Shari’ah-compliant and halal products and services; (t3) improving socio-economic status of Muslims in developed and emerging countries; and (t4) a widening perspective of faith understanding and rising interest in religious literacy.Research limitations/implicationsThis research serves to inform global businesses of opportunities in Islamic economy sectors, highlighting global demographic change and informing how business is impacted through the plurality of Muslim faith interpretation.Practical implicationsBased on this research, businesses can better align their services with the socio-economic environment and faith sensibilities of Muslim consumers.Originality/valueThe paper provides a first look at the activity across Islamic economic sectors and disaggregates their activity and potential for growth across Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority markets. In particular, three areas were examined – demography, emergent Muslim lifestyles and religiosity.

Halal Consumption Pattern Determinants: Sequential Mediating effects of Muslim Lifestyle, Trust and Risk Perception

The objectives of Halal Industry Master Plan (2008 – 2020) are to serve Malaysia as the global reference centre for Halal integrity know-how and being the global leader in the innovation, production and trade of a number of halal-related sectors. This paper aimed at Halal Consumption Pattern Determinants in Malaysia. The direct determinants of the halal consumption pattern are Muslim lifestyle, risk perception and trust. The determinants of Muslim lifestyle are perceived behavioural control, government policy and religiosity. Additionally, Muslim lifestyle predicts risk perception and trust. The total of 244 data was collected from Muslim consumers in Muslim population Malaysia which stratified from the five Malaysian regions: Central, North, South, Eastern peninsular and East Malaysia presented by Johor, Wilayah Persekutuan, Kedah, Kelantan and Sabah. The data was analyzed through SPSS and Partial Least Square (SEM-PLS). The finding indicated that all the direct relationships were significant except for the government policy towards Muslim Lifestyle and Risk Perception towards Halal Consumption pattern. The sequential mediating effect of religiosity shows significant result while others were not significant. The model had explained 42.2% of Halal Consumption Pattern (r2=0.422). The implication of the finding was discussed therein.

The Antecedents of Halal Consumption Pattern: The Mediating Role of Muslim Lifestyle, Risk Perception and Trust

Halal food industry globally experiencing rapid growth which is estimated at USD 2.3 trillion (RM8.3 trillion). Although the halal food market is a fast growing situation, Muslims were sometimes doubtful to consume halal food due to alleged contamination with non-halal ingredients. The question arises of how the specified factors explain halal food consumption. Thus, this paper aims to examine the factors that may influence halal food consumption mediated by risk perception, trust and Muslim lifestyle. Quantitative study has been conducted which consists seven variables measured by a total of 57 Items using seven-point Likert-scale. For this study, data were collected using 240 questionnaires from household consumers. Partial least squares (Smart PLS) were used to analyze the collected data. The ultimate finding implies that all independent variables of halal nutritional knowledge, halal consciousness, green halal consumption and mediator of Muslims lifestyle, risk perception and trust have a significant impact on the halal consumption pattern. Moreover, Muslim lifestyle and risk perception have mediate influence between green halal consumption and halal consumption pattern. As a result, the consumers who choose to consume halal product are practicing green in their consumption. Food and product selection are important for them in order to avoid non-halal food/products which believed this matter aligned to be a good Muslim. Living based on Muslim Lifestyle help to monitor their halal consumption pattern. The finding suggests that producers, including green products producers need to abide to good manufacturing practice to ensure their halal business success.

A Redefinition of the Productive Debt Concept in Halal Lifestyle Framework

Productive debt is usually understood as debt that generates financial benefits and is able to increase assets. This understanding leads to the marginalization of important dimensions that are analysed according to Islamic worldview and epistemology. This paper argues about the inaccuracy of the contemporary definition and adduces a new definition of productive debt that is consistent with the aspirations of Muslim lifestyle. Hence, a library study is conducted and guided by the main sources of reference in Islam, which are the al-Qur’an and Hadith as well as the Muktabar scriptures. The findings show that the contemporary definition of productive debt has marginalised the time value of life and the Islamic-based hierarchical consumption.

REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN MEDIA SITES ONLINE

<p>Dream.co.id site content articles and images predominantly women, where there are 429 articles in the category of housewives and career. The site is the site of the Muslim lifestyle who ranks 10th in Indonesia. Recorded census at the end of 2016 as much as 49.83%, or about 118.3 million people is the female population. The Central Bureau of Statistics recorded at 60.67% of Indonesian women married, had a position as a housewife and also work. These facts explain that women have multiple roles. The research objective was to determine the representation of women in the Online site. The method used is the analysis of the contents of the article content Dream.co.id by framing the article connecting concept and as a mark of meaning production. There are three theories that explain the representation. First, gender representation and gender is shaped by culture. Gender representation in media produces negative stereotypes of women, where women are always positioned in the domestic sphere. Second, representation and realism that is the real picture that is displayed media. Content received an audience is a form of real world. Third, changes in the representation of where the text that appears to have an important meaning message (Branston & Stafford, 2003). The findings show that 67% of women described as having two roles. Women have a function take on the role of tradition and role transitions. Women have a great responsibility in the domestic sphere and the public. A role can be an option for women themselves, but also as the demands on women. Both of these roles as a breakthrough of postfeminis, but is still undergoing structural traditionalists. On the site's content was found to be 71.7% of women get the stereotypical 'housewife'. The 28 articles category housewives and career are 57.1% on a female stereotypes about the 'housewives' negative tone in the media portal Dream.co.id, such as : housewives make a loss because it does not work and the purchase of foreign products, father was a non-commissioned officer who just married housewife, housewife better than career, women should be more at home and be a housewife, a wife/mother perform all household tasks such as cooking, washing, embroidery, childcare, care of the home, children, husband, being a housewife into the nature of monthly expenditure, women as domestic servants work caring for children, can work under pressure, a little rest, good at cooking, washing, can take care of their own health, and finally women should be housewives.</p>Conclusion is different roles and weights, two different terms. Private role is to take care of the family. While household problem is not a requirement for women. Sincerity women who want to perform household duties while caring for children and a husband. The system of values, norms, stereotypes and gender ideology has long been seen as one of the factors that influence women's position and relationship with men, or with the environment in the construction of society. The role of women in the public sphere of the economy is getting the salary from his own sweat where the money is not an obligation to use on families. Women who want to help and share their income to domesticate the supposed obligation of men referred to as alms. Alms in financial terms given willingly by the woman/wife to the household as a form of glory and grace of a woman. Each role taken by women has a positive function for themselves, society and beliefs.

Performance evaluation of community-based ecotourism: a case study in Satun province, Thailand

ABSTRACTThe objective of the study reported in this paper was to assess the performance of community-based ecotourism (CBET) management at tourist destinations in Thailand. The importance-performance analysis method was applied to evaluate tourists’ perceptions of the importance and performance of CBET management in Satun province. Analysis was based on data collected using a questionnaire administered to a sample of 530 visitors. Semi-structured and focus group interviews were also used to collect data from various key informants: executives of government agencies, local administrators, leaders of networks of community-based tourism, experts in tourism management, and local residents regarding four dimensions of ecotourism management: environmental area, management, activities and learning processes, and stakeholder participation. The findings indicate that the tourist destinations in the areas have an abundance of natural attractions and cultural traditions relating to the local Muslim lifestyle which have the potential to be exploited under CBET. However, a number of important aspects needed to be improved including management and participation. Additionally, it is necessary to enhance the economic benefits of local stakeholders which would encourage natural conservation and the participation of local communities in CBET management.

Promoting ‘fundamental British values’ in schools: a critical race perspective

Fear and anxiety about the ‘Muslim other’, the failure of state multiculturalism, and the perception of a disjuncture between white British values and that of Islam have become a concerning feature of the British policy landscape. The government—in response to the so-called ‘Muslim threat’—has called for a ‘muscular’ promotion of fundamental British values in the nation’s schools. As a result, ‘the rule of law’, ‘individual liberty’, ‘mutual respect’, and ‘tolerance’ have been advanced as fundamentally British principles “we should try to live by every day” (Cameron 2014). Informed by critical race theory, this paper raises important and timely questions about the dangers of conflating democratic values with British national identity, outlining how the current policy climate has served to: decivilize Muslim lifestyles and identities; construct ‘white British’ norms and mores as culturally superior; portray young Muslims as pre-disposed to extremist views and violent behaviors; and force the country’s teachers to take up roles as instruments of surveillance and defenders of the white hegemonic order.

A Dialogue on the Role of Muslim Women in the Development of Healthy Economy in Islamic Civilization

A substantial theme has been encountered by all national policies and plans in the 1990s, with raising the concept of Gender and Development (GAD). This is the time to regard to cultural elements of economic system in the postmodern era as some scholars have tried to defend from green, health and pure economies. Specifically, with the development of concept and empowerment’s of global implications, examination on the position of Islamic economy is required. Women due to their tasks in family, potentially have enjoyed some income sources such as; alimony, dower (mahr) and inheritance. In addition, they can improve their economic status by enhancement on the level of their education and career. Since today, economic and cultural dominance of the West has influenced the Muslim's life style, more than before we need to return to Islamic culture and its adaptation to today's condition. As the objective of study this paper attempts to regard the role of women in Islamic economy.

Prayer house or cultural centre? Restoring a mosque in post-socialist Armenia

ABSTRACTPost-socialist urban dynamics in the Caucasus have been characterized by uneven processes of rebuilding and reclaiming of sacred spaces. Exploring re-emerging Shia Muslim lifestyles in post-conflict Armenia around Yerevan's Blue Mosque, I examine how a religious place is perceived and used in everyday life. Built at the end of the eighteenth century in a multi-religious environment, today the Blue Mosque is associated with the political body symbolizing the recent Iranian–Armenian friendship and with Iran's soft-power policy in the Caucasus. The ethnographic research reveals that the mosque complex is not an isolated sacred site emphasizing differences between Iranian migrants and Armenian locals, worshippers, and non-worshippers, but a spatial expression of the coming together of groups from different backgrounds and of the vernacular hybridity that existed in Yerevan in the past. In spite of the invisibility and the silence of the Blue Mosque's past from the point of view of government officials, the physical restoration of the mosque is triggering unembodied memories of people in conscious and unconscious reconstructions of the multi-religious past. The question, is to what extent does the Blue Mosque contribute to a visible rediversification of religious and ethnic life in Armenia?

Russian Muslim Lifestyle Renovation Problems in the Modernistic Literature of the Late 19th and Early 20th Century

The relevance of the research problem is due to the active processes of political, social and cultural revival taking place in modern Muslim community.The objective of the article is to study the attempts made with the view of theoretical understanding of modernization of Russian Muslims in modernist literature ( the second half of the XIXth - the beginning of the XXth centuries). A leading approach to the study of this problem is the civilized approach ; it allowed to consider the Muslims of Russia to be a part of pan-Islamic civilization and regard the transformation of their lifestyle in the context of general processes of modernization of the Muslim world. On the basis of studying the works of the reformatory, educational, national liberation movements’ representatives the author came to the conclusion that the Jadid literature was assessed contradictorily: the modernistic discourse was combined with devotion to traditions. In the early 20 th century the religious reformatory and educational problematic was becoming secondary at the same time was giving the ground to the social and political problems. The prerevolutionary literature laid the foundation for the scientific traditions of studying the Muslim modernism processes. This article submissions can be useful for elaboration of training courses on Islamic history, Muslim peoples, the history of the Tatar people, as well as the history of culture and social thought of the peoples of Russia.

Schooling, religion, youth and everyday life

This article investigates the ways in which different and complex learning processes take place in an independent Muslim school in Sweden. In particular it focuses on how a group of young women interprets, discusses and relates to school and everyday life. The empirical material consists of interviews with teachers and repeated focus group interviews with eight to ten 15–year–old Muslim women. Methodologically, the focus is on how these subjects relate to central questions of gender relations, ‘religious rules’, the school curriculum and various aspects of everyday life. The results indicate that even though there is a considerable degree of freedom in the interpretations of what it means to be a good Muslim, the different formal and informal learning processes also involve and define particular ways of looking at gender, lifestyle and society. In certain aspects this leads to a cleavage between what is regarded as a Swedish lifestyle, on the one hand, and a Muslim lifestyle, on the other. The processes that take place within and outside school must therefore be understood in relation to segregation, identity politics and youth culture.

Gender boundaries and sexual categories in the Arab world.

This essay considers the construction of gender and sexual images in the Arab world and how Western responses to Islam have affected the way Islam is perceived and interpreted. After a brief introduction the essay discusses the problems of using Islam as a standard methodological yardstick in the face of the diversity of Muslim lifestyles and interpretations. The next section describes gender boundaries and social barriers in Islam that involve rigid segregation of the sexes. While Islam is shown not to favor full gender equality the dynamic interaction between a Middle Eastern culture and the Islamic religion each of which promote the ostensible inferiority of women makes it difficult to determine whether culture or religion has had more influence on gender relations. The essay continues with a look at controversies about homosexuality the condition that defined the difference between Christianity and Islam. Characteristics of present-day sexism and sexuality among the Arabs are highlighted in a look at the persistence of male dominance the restriction of women from the public sphere theories about the toleration of homosexuality and the taboo extended towards lesbians and others practicing free sex. It is concluded that the study of gender and sexuality in the Middle East remains incomplete and preliminary although gender studies have progressed in the past two decades. Social and sexual tensions have been exacerbated by the rise of fundamentalism and homosexuality remains a forbidden topic for Muslim scholars.