An interview study of 44 Bangladeshi patients and relatives in London demonstrated simultaneous trust in psychiatrists as well as in the widespread use of healing amulets. At the same time, local Islamic clerics and traditional healers were seen by many with some degree of suspicion. The authors offer an interpretation in which local healers and their methods are regarded ambivalently: the more...

Abstract This article contributes to the wider historicity of female Sufi spiritual guides by engaging Indonesian examples about which very little have been written. While women can and do hold different levels rank leadership in orders (tariqah), usually among all-female congregations, this examines a rare example woman public position overseeing an entire tariqah network inclusive male discip...

Hydro-sedimentological models might be useful tools for investigating the effectiveness of soil and water conservation practices. However, evaluating usefulness such requires that predictions are tested against observational data uncertainty from model parameterization is addressed. Here we aimed to evaluate capacity SWAT simulate monthly streamflow sediment load in Posses creek catchment (12 k...

The Sufi position on the existence of universals cannot be discussed except as part of the problem of universals in Islamic thought as a whole. I should like, therefore, by way of introduction, to summarize the positions of the various Islamic schools on this question. Muslim works on logic distinguish between three kinds of universal: the natural universal (al-kull̄ı al-t .ab̄ı‘̄ı), the logical u...

This paper presents Sirhindi's criticism of the concept Wahdat al-wujudIbn 'Arabi which is called Wahdatsyuhud. Comparing these two concepts will encounter obstacles, because basis thinking Sufism for Sufis different, IbnArabi emphasizes philosophical and Sirhindi Sunni Sufism. However, thoughts both can be compared by presenting reasoning arguments that support constructing as they are. type r...

Artikel ini bertujuan untuk membahas eksistensi huruf-huruf muqatta'ah dan penafsirannya oleh para ulama, baik ulama kalam maupun sufi. Kualitatif adalah metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian dengan menggunakan pendekatan studi pustaka. Selain interpretasinya, penulis juga berusaha menganalisanya semiotika. Kesimpulan didapatkan lebih memilih bersikap moderat meskipun mereka memberikan pendapa...