The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims

Voorkant
ANU E Press, 1 nov 2006 - 282 pagina's
This work deals with the socio-religious traditions of the Javanese Muslims living in Cirebon, a region on the north coast in the eastern part of West Java. It examines a wide range of popular traditional religious beliefs and practices. The diverse manifestations of these traditions are considered in an analysis of the belief system, mythology, cosmology and ritual practices in Cirebon. In addition, particular attention is directed to the formal and informal institutionalised transmission of all these traditions
 

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Pagina 80 - ... other. From this point of view technique and ritual, profane and sacred, do not denote types of action but aspects of almost any kind of action. Technique has economic material consequences which are measurable and predictable; ritual on the other hand is a symbolic statement which "says" something about the individuals involved in the action.
Pagina 130 - Glory to Allah Who did take His Servant for a Journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque whose precincts We did bless, - in order that We might show him some of Our Signs: for He is the One Who heareth and seeth all things.
Pagina 98 - I bear witness that there is no God but Allah, and I bear witness that Muhammad is His Messenger.
Pagina 30 - The relatively minor role of doctrine as contrasted with behavior is reflected in the five "pillars" of Islam, the fundamental obligations imposed on each and every believer. The Prophet is supposed to have said: "Islam is built upon five things, testimony that there is no god but God and that Muhammad is the Messenger of God...
Pagina 119 - Verily, the number of months with Allah is twelve months (in a year), so was it ordained by Allah on the Day when He created the heavens and the earth...
Pagina 204 - Acquire knowledge, because he who acquires it in the way of the Lord performs an act of piety ; who speaks of it, praises the Lord -, who seeks it, adores God ; who dispenses instruction in it, bestows alms : and who imparts it to its fitting objects, performs an act of devotion to God.
Pagina 2 - Abangan, representing a stress on the animistic aspects of the over-all Javanese syncretism and broadly related to the peasant element in the population; santri, representing a stress on the Islamic aspects of the syncretism and generally related to the trading element (and to certain elements in the peasantry as well); andprijaji, stressing the Hinduistic aspects and related to the bureaucratic element (Geertz, 1960:6).
Pagina 94 - The head is cut out of the solid rock, and measures nearly 30 feet from the top of the forehead to the bottom of the chin, and about U ft.
Pagina 98 - Praises are to God, and prayers, and good works. Peace be on thee, O Prophet, and the mercy of God, and His blessings. Peace be on us, and on [all] the righteous worshippers of God.
Pagina 32 - Allah is one, the eternal God. He begot none, nor was He begotten. None is equal to Him or like Him

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