Islamic Prayer Research Articles

The Effect of atmospheric humidity level to the determination of Islamic Fajr/morning prayer time and twilight appearance

Islamic prayer times are based on the astronomical position of the Sun in the sky. One of them is the Fajr prayer. It is marked by some indicators in the morning twilight which is white light spread in the Eastern horizon. However, determining the true time of twilight can be difficult. One of the reasons is the effect of atmospheric humidity to the appearance of morning twilight. The higher the humidity, the redder twilight sky appearance. This paper discusses this effect. It is shown that despite of the same Sun's position, sky color can vary considerably. Observations of various solar dip angle have been made to study this effect. Visibility for different angle can change accordingly. We obtained that the average solar dip for Fajr prayer by morning twilight images was -18°39'29.4".

Islamic Prayer, Spirituality and Productivity: An Exploratory Conceptual Analysis

Prayer plays a noteworthy role in Muslims daily lives. Quran and Sunnah testify that regular prayers can boost one’s health, can remove the level of stress, and may make one more productive and vigour. Such findings also noticed by medical and psychological experts, and likewise many contemporary research have shown wide-ranging outcomes in terms of improved wellbeing when prayer is done with sincere devotion. Nevertheless what is lacking is that the policy makers in the Islamic world need to initiate whether there exist any linkages between prayer and productivity, which needs to be appreciated more by them, as well as by Islamic economists and social scientists, Islamic business professionals and Islamic jurists, and then through a concerted effort and dynamic fact finding mission and verification to ascertain the Qur’anic beliefs in our daily lives. This studies using descriptive analysis to explain the linkage between the Islamic prayer and productivity DOI: 10.15408/aiq.v8i2.3160

Design and Implementation of an Interactive System for Teaching the Islamic Prayer

Background: The Islamic Prayer is central to the Islam religion and is a requirement for all Muslims to learn and perform properly. Teaching the Islamic Prayer had traditionally been through the use of textbooks. Aims: This paper describes the design and implementation of the IIP (interactive Islamic Prayer) system to teach the Islamic prayer using Virtual Environments and interactive technologies. Method: The approach taken was to first define the various elements that make up the Islamic Prayer (positions, verbal statements and units). This is then captured in software that uses the Microsoft Windows Kinect system. Results: The Islamic Prayer sequences were successfully captured and implemented in the iIP system. Conclusions: The iIP system design and implementation using Microsoft Windows Kinect system was described. This was based on the definition of the different elements of the Islamic Prayer.

Islamic Law and Political Ideology : Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's Renewed Interpretation of Islamic Prayer Laws

Islamic Law and Political Ideology : Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's Renewed Interpretation of Islamic Prayer Laws

A Comparative Study of Teaching the Islamic Prayer

A Comparative Study of Teaching the Islamic Prayer

Muslim neighbors or an Islamic threat? A constructionist framing analysis of newspaper coverage of mosque controversies

In recent years, growing communities of Muslim-Americans have faced tension in a series of debates over the construction of Islamic prayer spaces in American cities. Islamic community members have found themselves fighting for representation within the political process and for their philosophical right to exist within American society. This study presents a framing analysis of the debate in five US newspapers between 2010 and 2013 as a way of examining the position of Muslims within contemporary American society. The study examines five frames: Local Regulation, Legal Authority, Political Debate, Muslim Neighbors, and Islamic Threat. The first three were episodic frames, while the other two were thematic. Some of the discourse showed evidence of Islamophobia, or indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions directed at Islam or Muslims. Other stories showed evidence of Islamophilia, which is the stereotypical presentation of ‘good Muslims’ who are model citizens in contrast to the ‘bad Muslims’ who serve as rhetorical enemies.

SYARIAT DALAM BALUTAN IBADAT DAN ADAT

This paper is discussed about syariat/Islamic law especially on the development of the contents. The main point of discussion refers to the position of tradition in ritual Islamic prayer. This paper is divided into two parts; the first one is analysed the meaning and development of ritual and tradition from theology and socio-anthrophology point of fiew. This part is very important to understand the position of ritual and tradition. The second part is discussed the relationship between ritual and traditionin Islamic law perspective. The existence of a religion is always presence a mediators which is acquired as the most authoritative on give meaning and state the religion rules which comes from God. The rules and meaning that they made is closely connected to their sociocultural life.

A case series study of the neurophysiological effects of altered states of mind during intense Islamic prayer

This paper presents a case series with preliminary data regarding the neurophysiological effects of specific prayer practices associated with the Islamic religion. Such practices, like other prayer practices, are likely associated with several coordinated cognitive activities and a complex pattern of brain physiology. However, there may also be changes specific to the goals of Islamic prayer which has, as its most fundamental concept, the surrendering of one’s self to God. To evaluate Islamic prayer practices, we measured changes in cerebral blood flow (CBF) using single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in three Islamic individuals while practicing two different types of Islamic prayer. In this case series, intense Islamic prayer practices generally showed decreased CBF in the prefrontal cortex and related frontal lobe structures, and the parietal lobes. However, there were also several regions that differed between the two types of prayer practices including increased CBF in the caudate nucleus, insula, thalamus, and globus pallidus. These patterns also appear distinct from concentrative techniques in which an individual focuses on a particular idea or object. It is hypothesized that the changes in brain activity may be associated with feelings of “surrender” and “connectedness with God” described to be experienced during these intense Islamic prayer practices. Overall, these results suggest that several coordinated cognitive processes occur during intense Islamic prayer. Methodological issues and implications of the results are also discussed.

Archaic and innovative Islamic prayer names around the Sahara

AbstractBerber in the Sahara and southern Morocco, and several West African languages including Soninké, Mandinka and Songhay, all refer to the five Islamic daily prayers using terms not derived from their usual Arabic names, and showing striking mutual similarities. The motivation behind these names has not hitherto been explained. An examination of Islamic sources reveals that many correspond to terms attested within Arabic from an early period but which have passed out of use elsewhere. Others, with a more limited distribution, reflect transfer from a time-keeping system widely attested among Berber-speaking oases of the northern Sahara. These results demonstrate that the variant prayer terminologies attested in theḥadithreflect popular usages that were still commonplace at the time when North Africa was conquered, and underscore the conservatism of non-Arabic Islamic religious terminology in and around the Sahara.

The Competitive ability in the design of printed upholstery fabrics as a small scale enterprise for the enhancement the Egyptian economy

Prayer known as prayer rugs, are considered one of the types of printed furnishings that invaded the Egyptian market and are produced in several places in the world with the lack of the product in the Arab Republic of Egypt, although this product is suitable as a small industry based on low-cost raw materials and economic implementation possibilities This, in addition to the small size of the capital, and the ease of training young workers on it. The research problem stems from the need for small projects for printed products that are able to compete in the local market to confront importers, in addition to the lack of standards by which to achieve excellence for small projects in the field of designing printed furniture. The research aims to set standards for designing a pocket prayer rug so that it achieves functional and aesthetic goals through a model for a small project that is competitive and based on local raw materials and economic implementation possibilities and has not been discussed in the Arab Republic of Egypt before. This goal is based on the assumption that providing standards for pocket prayer rugs designs can achieve functional and aesthetic goals to produce a distinct product that is competitive through a small project based on local materials and using simple technology. The study used the descriptive analytical method, through which a descriptive study of both small industries and competitiveness, and an analytical technical study of prayer rugs in the Islamic era and pocket prayer rugs printed in the local market. A number of design experiments were also conducted, inspired by the aesthetic features of Islamic prayer which are suitable for pocket prayer rugs. The study concluded that the economic feasibility of the pocket prayer rug is determined according to the criteria of economic efficiency of the product on two main factors which are design excellence, which depends on organizing relationships between formal vocabulary on the design surface using multiple methods in the distribution of design elements to achieve diversity and unity in design in addition to the efficiency of the material that depends The material must be matched to achieve the most cost-effective method

Cannibalism, Communion, and Multifaith Sacrifice in the Novel and Film Life of Pi

Abstract: This article argues that Yann Martel's and Ang Lee's Life of Pi is a multicultural story of maternal cannibalism that resists discourses of cannibalism that assume only the excess of the Other can eat human flesh. Whereas on one level the main character's cannibalism is sublimated into a tale about a boy and four animals on a lifeboat, on a deeper level it is about a Hindu mother's Christian sacrifice that answers her son's Islamic prayers. Although psychoanalytic theory is used to unlock the maternal cannibalism underlying Pi's tale, the discourse of oedipal and pre-oedipal desire is rejected as discounting the specificity of Pi's adult trauma.

The Efficacy of Islamic Prayer (Namaz) as Spiritual, Psychological and Physical Well Being to Health

Namaz is a science as well as an art of healthy living physically, mentally, morally & spiritually. This review study aims to discuss about technique of Namaz and how Namaz is benefited to the humans in many ways such as stress reduction, emotional wellness, improve flexibility & strength, enhancement of the immune system & improve balance & postural alignment. This study concludes that by proper technique of Namaz will improve moods, strengthen their body, relieve stress and improve concentration & coordination, enhancement preventive of diseases & good hygienic and healthy skillful life.

Azhary: An Arabic Lexical Ontology

Arabic language is the most spoken languages in the Semitic languages group, and one of the most common languages in the world spoken by more than 422 million. It is also of paramount importance to Muslims, it is a sacred language of the Islamic Holly Book (Quran) and prayer (and other acts of worship) in Islam is performed only by mastering some of Arabic words. Arabic is also a major ritual language of a number of Christian churches in the Arab world and it is also used in writing several intellectual and religious Jewish books in the Middle Ages. Despite this, there is no semantic Arabic lexicon which researchers can depend on. In this paper we introduce Azhary as a lexical ontology for the Arabic language. It groups Arabic words into sets of synonyms called synsets, and records a number of relationships between words such as synonym, antonym, hypernym, hyponym, meronym, holonym and association relations. The ontology contains 26,195 words organized in 13,328 synsets. It has been developed and contrasted against AWN which is the most common available Arabic lexical ontology. keywords: Arabic Language, Ontology, WordNet, Semantic Web, Arabic Lexicon.

Therapeutic Effects of Islamic Intercessory Prayer on Warts

The present study aimed to examine the therapeutic effects of Islamic intercessory prayer on warts. Forty-five participants who are mostly Muslims and infected with warts were randomized into three groups: Group-1 (uncertain, with intercessory prayer), Group-2 (uncertain, no intercessory prayer), and control group (informed, no intervention). Stress symptoms were also measured before and after prayer sessions for these three groups. The results revealed that there were no significant differences between the groups in terms of healing. Although participants believed in the therapeutic effects of prayer, when participants did not trust the intercessor, prayer had no effect on warts.

MENALAR KEMBALI HADITS DAN SHALAT TASBIIH

Tasbih prayer is prayer that has been believed by some Muslims, as recommended in Islamic prayer. it is based on the proposition that the hadith narrated by some scholars, such as imam Abu Daud, Tirmidhi and Ibn Majah, but after investigation of the side chains and Matn his law Tasbih prayer hadith is weak, even some scholars categorize into maudhu’ hadith (hadith false), as classified by the imam Ibn al-Jawzi in his book al-Maudhuu'aat, there are also those who say that this hadith, if it is authentic then surely maqluub (other matn confused with another isnaad or matn confused with another matn), as the opinion of Ibn Khuzaimah priest. Even Sheikhul Islam Ibn Taymiyyah said, that no one of the Imams of the four schools that encourage it, precisely imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal stated that the hadith is weak prayer beads.

Spiritual Energy of Islamic Prayers as a Catalyst for Psychotherapy

Islamic prayers can produce spiritual energy that may yield many psychological benefits, such as amelioration of stress and improvement in subjective well-being, interpersonal sensitivity, and mastery. Islamic prayers can also be integrated into mainstream therapeutic interventions with religious Muslim clients, and this integration can mobilize, transform, and invigorate the process of psychotherapy. This paper provides methods that can be used for the explicit integration of Islamic prayers into traditional psychotherapy. Further, the paper offers strategies for avoiding potential pitfalls that may hamper this process. Finally, a case study illustrating this therapeutic integration and its psychological benefits will be presented.

Seeking the Divine on Earth: The Direction of Prayer in Islam

(2013). Seeking the Divine on Earth: The Direction of Prayer in Islam. Math Horizons: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 15-17.

KESENIAN TERBANG MEDAL KERAMAT CEMPAKA MULYA DALAM UPACARA NGARUWAT BUMI DI DESA SUKAMUKTI KECAMATAN MAJALAYA KABUPATEN BANDUNG

Kesenian Terbang Medal Keramat Cempaka Mulya, in Sukamukti village, Majalaya subdistrict of Bandung regency, has a special presentation structure that still holding on to the traditions common to the ancestors in organizing the performance ensemble. This musical performance can be categorized as a multifunctional Tambourine ensemble performed not only in religious rituals, but also in other ceremonies for circumcision, wedding, ngaruwat bayi (ritual cleansing and purification for children), or ngaruwat bumi (earth cleansing and purification rituals), and so on. The problem to be studied comprises the function and structure of performance of Kesenian Terbang Medal Keramat Cempaka Mulya in Sukamukti village, Majalaya subdistrict, Bandung regency. The study employed an analytic descriptive method using an ethnomusicological approach. The data were collected through observation, interview, literature review, and documentation. By this method, the author can describe how the Kesenian Terbang Medal Keramat Cempaka Mulya in Sukamukti village, Majalaya subdistrict, Bandung regency performs in Ngaruwat Bumi ceremony. Ngaruwat Bumi ceremony starts with Ijab Qabul (Muslim marriage contract) and Tawasulan (Islamic prayer). In this event, Kesenian Terbang Medal Keramat Cempaka Mulya performs Terbang Buhun. Subsequently, the celebration event was held by involving the community to presents the songs of joy. In this event, Kesenian Terbang Medal Keramat Cempaka Mulya performs Terbang Bangreng and Terbang Akrobat.

Performing the salat [Islamic prayers] at work: Secular and pious Muslims negotiating the contours of the public in Belgium

This article analyses the way in which the question of performing şalat (Islamic prayer) at the workplace is addressed by second-generation Maghrebi-Muslims in Belgium. Over recent years, western Europe has witnessed a number of societal debates on the increasing visibility of Islam in the public sphere. A key argument often used in these discussions concerns the necessity to defend the ‘neutral’ or ‘secular’ character of the public sphere towards Muslim claims. In so doing, the idea of religious pluralism becomes opposed to the idea of a secular public sphere. This paper seeks to complicate this perspective by questioning the idea that praying in public (i.e. at the workplace) figures as a religious claim that is defended unequivocally by Muslims. The narratives explored here show that Muslims – irrespective of the degree of their religious commitment – do not hold similar positions towards this question. Contrasting perspectives about the idea of the public, that of a ‘correct’ religious practice and the position of Islam in the Belgian public sphere rather informed these positions. Consequently, the analysis of the different accounts shows that what often passes as a single principle (that of privatization of religion) in fact consists of an assemblage of heterogeneous discursive repertoires, which address the question of religion in the public in a diverse set of ways. Such a perspective invites us to consider how secularism is reproduced and maintained throughout heterogeneous normative orders, including religious ones.

The Islamic prayer (Salah/Namaaz) and yoga togetherness in mental health

Religion and its practices have been duly implicated in treating not only problems related to medical health, rather, intervening and preventing such problems as well. In the present article, the authors have reviewed significance of the Islamic prayers (Salah/Namaaz) in healthcare in general and mental health in particular. The nature, procedures, practices and the benefits of Salah have been comprehensively described and discussed. In addition, an attempt to combine yoga and its practices with Salah has been made for intervening and preventing the problems of mental health as an expeditious tool. In upshot, the clinicians in the field of mental health care have been suggested to incorporate these two viewpoints in their intervention program, at least, for the Muslim patients for a more desirable outcome.