Tafsir Nur al-Ihsan is the second interpretation after Tarjuman al-Mustafid written in Malay language 19th century AD by Sheikh Muhammad Sa’id ibn Umar. The main objective of this study to identify influence external source text al-Ihsan. This important because it can unravel reference works used Said Umar when producing disclosure also strengthen work and continue be a guide for community unde...

The thesis examines the level of historical analysis in the works of two third/ninth century Muslim historians, al-Baladhuri and at-Tabari, including their underlying legal, political and socio-economic concerns as manifested in their narratives. By comparing and contextualising their histories regarding the caliphate of ‘Umar, in relation to their social institutions and scholarly disciplines,...

This paper investigates some of the ways that Chinese medicine has been transferred to the Western world and to Islamic territories. During the Golden Age of Islam (8th to 13th century CE), the herbal drug trade promoted significant commercial and scientific exchange between China and the Muslim world. Chinese herbal drugs have been described by medieval Muslim medical scholars such as Tabari (...

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The open-source Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (GDELT) is the most comprehensive and updated Big Data source of important terms extracted from international news articles . We focus only on GDELT’s Singapore events to better understand the data quality of its news articles, accuracy of its term extraction, and potential for prediction. To test news completeness and validity, we v...

Increasing numbers of high quality tools and data sets are becoming available for the study of media content, providing an opportunity for more rapid progress in Communication Science if these tools and data sets could be effectively combined and shared. In order to do so, it would be beneficial to have a shared Data format that is flexible enough to allow for changing research methods, express...

Among the materials of Murudj al-Dhahab wa Ma‘adin al-Djawhar (“The Meadows Gold and Mines Gems”) by al-Mas‘udi (10th century), dedicated to pre-Islamic Arabia, one notes legendary tradition about sons Nizar, for-father so called Northern Arabs: Unable comprehend their father’s testimony, they turned for help wise king al-Af‘a b. al-Djuhumi. On way sage during stay at his lodging Nizar’s manife...

This research is an attempt to find out how At-Tabari and Ibn Kathir's views on nusyūz. started from the many understandings circulating in community that problem of nusyūz was only shown questioned women (wives). The understanding tends be textual Surah An-Nisa verse 34 often used as excuse commit acts violence against women, both physically psychologically. While reading another verse, namely...