KAMPUNG PULO: TRACES OF ISLAMIC CULTURE IN GARUT REGENCY, WEST JAVA

Islamic Scripturalism, Morality and Everyday Life in a Kampung Tsunami

This chapter deals with the relationship between Eri, a young Acehnese man living in a tsunami affected neighborhood in the city of Banda Aceh, and his parents. I came to know Eri’s family well during my field research in the Indonesian province of Aceh in 20092010. Eri was then 24 years old. Not long before that, he spent two years at an Islamic school in Jakarta. There he felt attracted to th...

A Characterization of Traces in Java Programs

We perform a characterization of traces in Java programs. We collect traces in RedSpot, our trace collection system for the Jupiter Java Virtual Machine, using the SPECjvm98 and Java Grande benchmarks. We characterize these traces according to their number, length, several forms of coverage, predictability, and execution patterns. We find that traces can be used to group benchmarks into categor...

Dietetics in medieval Islamic culture.

The origins of dietetics understood as "the systematic control of food and drink in order to conserve health or combat disease"1 may be traced back to the Hippocratic Corpus, written chiefly between 430 and 330 BC. In Tradition in medicine the author argues that in the beginning man must have eaten the same food as the animals, that is, the produce of the earth, fruits, vegetables and grass. Th...

Islamic Radicalisation in North and West Africa

Ethnomedical survey of plants used by the Orang Asli in Kampung Bawong, Perak, West Malaysia

BACKGROUND A qualitative ethnomedical survey was carried out among a local Orang Asli tribe to gather information on the use of medicinal plants in the region of Kampung Bawong, Perak of West Malaysia in order to evaluate the potential medicinal uses of local plants used in curing different diseases and illnesses. METHODS Sixteen informants ranging in age from 35 to 65 years were interviewed....