Shaykh Amadu Bamba dan Jemaah Muridiyya
Pada tahun lepas, saya memulakan siri ini dengan sejarah Qadiriyya dan Tijaniyya di Afrika Barat sekitar kurun ke-18, iaitu era pra-imperialisme Eropah. Namun, dalam dua siri terakhir saya beralih fokus kepada sejarah para sufi di sebelah timur Afrika. Kali ini saya akan kembali kepada senario barat Afrika di kala penjajahan [...]

Some of you might already be familiar with this latest pet of mine, but I didn’t really find any use for it until only last weekend. That was when my famous rabble-rousing, anti-xtian-yet-jiwang friend MENJ sent me a 4-page list (!!!) of published works by the late Ismail Raji al-Faruqi. He was expecting me to [...]

Aqil Fitri has written a well thought out criticism of Dr. MAZA here. He presents the argument Dr MAZA makes as being rather exclusivist and disregards diversity of intellectual endeavor.
Frankly, I agree with him that salafis have a kharijite tendency of being shallowly literal, ultra-egalitarian (read: uniformity) and ignorant of the rich sholarly tradition. It [...]

The cure for all the ills of human society has to be a cure of the spirit - a breaking away from the old wrongful patterns of thought and behaviour based on a secular, materialistic world view, into a new, vaster area of spiritual enlightenment for all of us to explore and grow within.

On limkitsiang.com, undergrad2 comments:
People like Farish and my old friend Muzafar Shah aka Chandrasekhran Pillai from Ibrahim School, Sg. Petani should seriously consider throwing their hats into the political arena…
…This country would be better off if the professionals and intellectuals among us i.e. the intelligentsia take an active role in politics. By [...]

The rules for public indecency should be consistent with sharia. Hugging and kissing in public is not more or less indecent now than it has always been, only the feelings of the public as to how wrong it is perceived to be has changed due to the influences of secular materialism and Western cultural decadence. [...]

Shaykh Uways dan Aliran Sufi Pop
Jika Episod 5 mengisahkan pengaruh ulama dari Hadramaut sebagai golongan elit dalam sektor perniagaan, pentadbiran dan pendidikan di timur Afrika, kali ini saya ingin menyentuh pula gerakan sufi di kalangan orang awam, khususnya kepada kehidupan Shaykh Uways bin Muhammad al-Baraawe (1847 - 1909).
Terletak di Biolay (Biyooley), Somalia, maqam Shaykh Uways [...]

In reference to IBK’s letter Decency: A fine line, I write this in defense of Decent dressing: What are the parameters? by Abu Mubarak.
Abu Mubarak sets out the idea that it is virtually impossible to give absolute freedom. He refers to the recent banning of hijab by certain European countries as demonstrative that the paragons [...]

Dalam ruangan Ekslusif, saya telah upload kertas kerja oleh Dr. Muhamad Zahiri Awang Mat (UIAM) dan Rahimi Md. Saad (UM) yang dibentangkan pada Seminar Seksual Kebangsaan 2005 [klik sini untuk download]. Berikut adalah beberapa petikan dari kertas kerja tersebut:
Untuk menangani gejala yang berkait aspek seksual, maklumat dan pengetahuan yang tepat berkaitan dengan seksualiti dan reproduksi [...]

Pengaruh Ulama Hadramaut di Afrika Timur
Episod 2-4 menceritakan tentang gerakan tajdid sufi Tijaniyya dan Qadiriyya di sebelah barat sub Sahara. Masih banyak kembara sufi yang boleh diceritakan di kawasan ini, tapi sebelum kita mendalaminya eloklah saya beralih sebentar ke kawasan timur Afrika, terutamanya di negara Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya, Zanzibar dan Kepulauan Comoros.
Aliran pemikiran fiqh dan [...]