The present work is devoted to the study of Arabic clothes vocabularies, that reflect the symbolic tradition of Arab people, their culture, and also their way of life. The aims of this study were to describe: (1) new words introduced into Arabic fashion lexicons; (2) a number of word-formation processes;...

This paper studies equivalence and untranslatability in English Translation of UUD Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 1945 (UUDNRI 1945) translated by Mahkamah Konstitusi Republik Indonesia (MKRI) and UNESCO. The aims of the study are to examine the both translations in levels of translation equivalence...

This article discusses an anthropological study of the cultural power contained in the ketupat eating tradition (ketupat is a food name) among many Javanese Muslim families on the Lebaran Ketupat day, held annually at 8 Shawwal, the tenth month in the Hijri calendar. This study aims to identify the cultural...

This article discusses the phenomenon of the tendency among Muslims to carry out the activity of ziarah kubur (visit to the grave) in Jakarta on the last days of Sha'ban month, the 8th month in the Hijri calendar. The purpose of this research is to know the factors that motivate them in implementing...

The main focus of this study is to describe the order of sound in two variation of Arabic language namely Egypt and Syria. The segmental phonological structure of words in these two languages is represented as language specific phonotactic templates especially the syllable structure in words. The aims...

Al-Musyarrofah is one of the oldest Islamic Boarding School in Cianjur, West Java. It was founded in 1833 AD by Sheikh Tb. Abdullah Umar Syarifuddin, an ulama whose lineage was from his mother's path to Abdul Muhyi Pamijahan to Sunan Giri Gresik. While from his father’s line, it came to Sheikh Manshuruddin...

SR Ranganathan in 1931 proposed a theory called The Five laws of library science. This theory became a foundation for the world of librarianship and influenced the library science. The emerges of technology in life made it necessary to redefine the five laws of librarianship. This research aims to describe...

This research focuses on the main female character, Izis, in the play script of Izis (1955) by Taufiq Al-Hakim. This study used a feminist literary critique approach that focused on feminist values applied in the literary analysis process. In addition, gender theories and gender stereotypes were used...

The research focused on how English language and communication patterns used by a community affected the way its members socialize with their peers and other people. As the research data were utterances and sentences used by Rusabesi Community members in their everyday communication, we conducted an...

This study aims to show that there is language acculturation process in Nasr City Cairo advertisement. This acculturation occurs in the form of foreign language entering and adapting to Arabic language (borrowing words). In this case, English words are adapted to Arabic language (al-ta’rib) and these...

One of Imam Bonjol State Islamic University library efforts in improving the skills of librarians is by rotating job. Job rotation program is an important program that allows librarians to acquire new skills, increase staff productivity, develop new working relationships in all parts of the library and...

Newspapers are an important historical source in a historical writing that contains information about past events. Information about Islamic organizations in its activities in North Sumatra is found in newspapers from 1915 to 1942, considering that Islamic organizations have a long struggle in Indonesian...

In the XVII century AD, the West Coast of Sumatra was a very busy trade route visited by foreign merchants. In this region, spices were the main attraction of traders to come to trade transactions, so that the West Coast of Sumatra became a conquest of every country to hegemonize this region. In addition...

Shaikh Ismail Abdul Wahab (1897-1947 AD) was a warrior executed by the Dutch in 1948 in Tanjungabalai Asahan. One of the medias of his struggle was the book of Burhȃn al-Ma`rifah. This book was written to reorganize the fatalistic theological ideology to be more dynamic. It was published as a theological...

Bali has a great tradition or culture in various aspects of life that make up the local wisdom of the local community. Local wisdom is the main factor of life tolerance of Balinese people. Although Bali is known as an island populated by Hindu majority, there are also Muslim communities who have inhabited...

This article focusses on the jargon of two mass organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) as mainstream Muslim representatives in Indonesia, it is "Islam Berkemajuan” (Progressive Islam) and "Islam Nusantara" how the da'wah strategy and efforts of Muhammadiyah and NU as the largest Islamic...

This study aims to find out the meaning of the word "al-waliy" and its derivation in the Qur'an. The method used is a qualitative-descriptive with the Literature approach and uses semantic theory. The word al-waliy and its derivation are repeated in the Koran 213 times with details: the form of the verb...

This study investigates the relation of gender, religion, and cultural background to the politeness of directive speech acts on the medical students in South Tangerang. This study uses mix method to get data from the field. Data are acquired by recording some dialogs from the students in discussion during...

This paper discussed the meaning of Islamic symbols at the library of Islamic universities in Indonesia. The purposes of this study were to identify the Islamic symbols in the libraries, to find the meaning of the Islamic symbols, and to reveal the representation of Islamic values through those symbols....

Social media has grown rapidly and automatically allows new types of interactions. As a result, people are polarized into those who use social media positively or negatively. Such an interesting topic attracted the author to conduct a research aiming to find out how people convey hoaxes through sentences...

This article discusses the influence of Wahhabi’s ideology on Aman Abdurrahman's theological thoughts and da’wa as an ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) leader in Indonesia. The primary data were obtained from the book 'Aqidah of the Prophets and Apostles' and 'Al-Urwah al Wutsqa' compiled by Aman...

This paper aims to reveal the background of text and implied messages that Shekh Abdul Laṭīf Shakūr wanted to convey as an ulama and a man towards women who lived in a society with matrilineal kinship system in Minangkabau. This study used the theory of Genetic Structuralism Lucien Goldmann with dialectic...

This research was aimed at exploring the influence of intellectual communities in the development of intellectuals in a Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta. To get the historical data of the student’s involvement on intellectual activities inside and outside the campus, we collected...

This article discussed the dress practice of female university students of English Letters Department Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia. The primary objectives of this research were to explore how these female students defined the dress they wore and how they responded...

This study aims to determine how the utilization of printed and electronic information sources in the preparation of student’s thesis in Library and Information Science Department (LISD) of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta. This descriptive research used a citation analysis method...

The purpose of this study is to explore the phenomenon of the lecturers in utilizing information resource centers, especially museum for academic needs. As the cultural heritage center, museums have a very significant role in providing comprehensive information to meet the lecturer academic needs. This...

One of the most important issues in Islamic studies is the interpretation of the sacred texts of Al-Quran and al-Hadiths. Many interpretation theories have been created, such as ration-based interpretation (tafsīr bi al-Ra’yi), text-based interpretation (tafsīr bi al-Ma’tsūr), and linguistic-based interpretation....

Javanese women have a quite interesting to be studied, both in the past and the present. One of them was Mbok Mase who worked as a batik trader put women in ordinate position and controlled almost all the joints of life in the village. This phenomenon is very interesting because it was outside the tradition...

This study discusses coffee culture as a media for knowledge sharing for urban community. While “Ngopi” is identical to hanging out or just to have an easy talk with friends, it also relates to certain rituals and knowledge dissemination as well. Coffeehouses and other informal venues thus emerge as...

The purpose of this research is to measure the information literacy skill of Student Achievement Award (SAA) Winners in Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta in 2016, and to know how they coped with obstacle they get in finding information. This is a descriptive research, using a quantitative...

The aims of this paper are to identify the academics and practitioners’ perspectives about librarian competencies and roles in the disruptive era and what the librarianship community should do. The academics and the practitioners are lecturers and librarians in Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University...

This paper was aimed to reassess the idea of non-egalitarian Islam in Indonesia in the lens of a constitutional history and the extent to which it has been contested and negotiated to the face of Indonesia’s current political landscape. This study was a doctrinal research by collecting relevant articles...

The aim of this research is to see the religious and cultural context, or more precisely Islam and local faith within Buginese society, of Faisal Oddang’s Tiba Sebelum Berangkat through literary frames. Regarding the period of DI/TII (Islamic State/Indonesian Islamic Army) rebellion and the present,...

Social inclusion becomes a global issue as people’s awareness of equality increases. The growth of international interest to inclusion is a result of globalization, liberalization, and democratization. United Nation promotes the issue on inclusion through the agenda of 2030 Sustainable Development Goal...

This paper discussed about the terrorists’ ideology that affected their family. Therefore, it is important to do a logical education based on the Qur’an that has taught people to think logically and critically in responding to the problems among the humanities. The study used a qualitative method with...

The research aimed to find out how Jews reconstructed their identity as a nation, religion, or as a part of American society through media and biblical movies. ‘The Ten Commandments’ is one of the significant films to present Jews and Christianity in the framework of religious popular movies. From time...

The Arabic language, like other living languages, is not able to maintain all its vocabularies, meanings, and semantics the same way as the origin language in its ancient land, the land of Hijaz. The Arabic language might accept foreign terms, or create new terms or neologisms in accordance with the...

The article aimed to find out Najib Mahfouz perspective on Egypt in his novel Bidayah wa Nihayah. This study uses sociological approach to literature with Lucian Goldman's genetic structuralism theory as theoretical framework and dialectic method as its analysis. After dissecting the structure of relationships...

The prominent objective of this study is to answer the question of how Pesantren Al-Robithoh al-Islamiyah al-Muthi‘ah transformed its religious orientation, from traditionalist to Salafi, led by its young generation, the alumnae of Lembaga Ilmu Pengethuan dan Arab (LPIA) or Islamic and Arabic College...

Globalization imposes a universal culture which it implies a general view that the presence of a culture is inseparable from the human aspect and the general acceptance of values, beliefs, orientation and institutions by people throughout the world. What is called universal culture, is none other than...

Information literacy is one of life skills that individuals should possess besides other literacies, such as media literacy and digital literacy. Information literacy is the adoption of appropriate information behavior to identify, through whatever channel, information well fitted to information needs,...

The research aimed at not only acquiring comprehensive data on the profiles of female ulema in Jakarta province but also obtaining data on response of female ulema towards the issue of gender representation as one of the contemporary issues in Indonesia. This was done because there were few studies that...

It is acknowledged that every phase of the industrialization has influenced human life. In the field of information, for example, the presence of the internet and mobile technology has enabled people to access information from around the globe independently. I feel compelled to conduct a study on my...

This study investigated the strategy of Islamic popular novels written by Forum Lingkar Pena (FLP) community within the arena of cultural struggle. Using the sociology of literature perspective, it found that the format of Islamic popular novels put Muslim in a portended condition due to the decline...

This article discusses the debate between the Qadian Ahmadiyya and Persatuan Islam (Persis), one of the modernist Islamic organizations that started since 1923, based in Bandung. The teaching of Qadian Ahmadiyya was founded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad (1835-1908) in Qadian, India. The teaching entered the...

This paper discusses socio-cultural documentation based on local community as an effort to preserving indigenous knowledge through community service program. Documentation process is one of scientific method in the dissemination of information. Documentation work is not only limited in traditional form...

Online media have also contributed to the movement of anti-terrorism in Indonesia like the one done by internet memes. After the terrorist attack in M.H. Thamrin street, Central Jakarta, Indonesia, on 14 January 2016, a number of internet memes went viral in social media and the internet in responding...

Chairil Anwar is the greatest poet in Indonesia who translated two English poems into its language. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to determine the approaches of translation taken by him and to find out how these approaches deal with the translation result. The data were two poems, Huesca...

Gambus music is a compliment song addressed to the prophet Muhammad PBUH (Peace be upon him). Currently this kind of song was viral that everyone could enjoy as it contained a peaceful message and love to the Prophet. This research examined the religious values of Sabyan Gambus’ song lyrics Ya Maulana...

This paper aims to raise the right to describe the substantive meaning of nationalism. Nnationalism grows on a person when there is a willingness to build and advance his country, and this can be done in various ways. Tunisian poet Anis Chouchane told his thoughts about nationalism through his poetry....

Developing English communicative competence while integrating ideal characters as good Indonesians can be applied to English language teaching. The students can use English in foreign ways to communicate leading them without disregarding their local norms, values, and cultures. One of way is applying...

This study was aimed at investigating the value shift of Islamic studies tradition which is established in Assalaam Islamic Modern Boarding School, Central Java Indonesia. The interaction of pesantren with modern and globalized environment has a huge impact on the traditional value shift which is being...

Translating a text, literary or non-literary text, is always concerned with culture, writer’s and readers’ culture. Consequently, the translation process is inevitably involved in adjustments, changes, agreements, and cultural activities that can influence a translator’s decision. On the one hand, a...

This article aimed to find out the relation between Islam and capitalism, and Islam with science and technology based on American comparative literature studies on Achdiat Karta Mihardja's Atheist novel. The study was a qualitative that relied on verbal data in the form of ideas, opinions, and perceptions...

This research is explorative conducted with a combination approach, quantitative- qualitative, attempting to uncover the extent of the availability of Islamic anti-radicalism references in Indonesia, how those references are actively cited and utilized, and how such literatures are then projected in...

Reading is an important activity in improving people's life quality, and therefore it needs to grow and breed into a habit. This descriptive study investigated reading habit and interest of Tangerang City community which spread throughout 13 subdistricts. To collect the data, the study utilized a questionnaire...

This study aims to analyze the causality of class’ classification that occurred on the society of Pegaten in the Ahmad Tohari’s novel Kubah based on Marxist literary criticism theory. This study is a kind of a discourse analysis that made use of the novel as the main corpus. The exposure analysis includes...

Indonesia with all its diversity is actually a rich country, both natural and human resources. The diversity of religion, ethnicity, culture and language is the most important asset of Indonesian to be a country that has political, social and economic strength. Nevertheless, this kind of diversity is...

Modern pesantren (Islamic boarding school) that obliges the santri (students) to communicate in Arabic language causes bilingual society, even multilingual if the boarding school also requires English as a means of communication. In bilingual or multilingual communities there will be many variations...

In religious teachings, a subordination to women always existed due to the misinterpretation of religious texts that resulted in the deviation of religious practices among religion adherents. The religious texts that are gender biased can lead to discrimination against women and the position of women...