The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in
Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from …

Malacca was a strategic seaport located in the West Coast of Malay Peninsula and in the
middle of the Straits of Malacca. Being situated between the Indian Ocean and the South …

This study introduces the concept of Malay garden design in the eyes of tourists, particularly
from the inside and outside the country. The objectives are to explain the relationship …

In peeling the dilemma of the Malay contemporary community nowadays, a study has been
conducted to find out and discover the landscape furniture used by the Malay people in …

5.1 A Qur'an study group for women 105 5.2 The meditation room in a woman's pesantren,
middle Java 110 5.3 Female students at the Al-Biruni Babakan pesantren after a workshop …

This article continues an earlier investigation in this journal (2004), of the synthesis of Sufism
and Tantrism in a corpus of texts from Aceh between the 16th and 19th centuries. The …

Raja Rum whether understood as a Greek, Persian or Turkish ruler is a popular figure in
traditional Malay literature. A great array of kings of Rum occurs in many Malay literary …

This article analyzes the contributions of Nur al-Din al-Raniri (d. 1658) to the discourse on
religions other than Islam in the Malay world. Such discourse was not common during the …

Understanding of the Malay community in the past was too difficult to understand by the
present generation. The easiest example, that be posted to us is whether the Malay Garden …

This article focuses on the seventeenth-century Islamic scholar Nūr al-Dīn al-Rānīrī (d.
1658), who became especially known for his harsh oppression of monistic Sufism during his …