Academic literature on the topic 'Tamil Islamic literature'

History of literature proves that literature is undergoing various changes from time to time. In this way the short stories are a part in the contemporary literary world. At present era, short stories are one of the emerging genres of literature. Numerous short stories are appearing in the twenty-first century literature. Not all short stories produced by writers’ catches audience hearts. This article discusses the virtues that are explained in Islamic short stories, such as helping the poor people through hospitality, doing educational work, doing educational service, creating awareness about education, doing humanitarian work and so on. All these are highlighted in this article. This article also provides the future research ideas that can be under this topic.

Judaism, Christianity, Jainism, Buddhism, Saivism, Vaishnavism, Sikhism, Islam, etc., are embraced by the majority of the people at times of origin in the world. In general, the purpose of religion is to moralize people. When the people in Arabia suffered from the worship of many Gods, The Prophet Muhammad created the noble idea of 'God is one' and upheld that principle and established the principles of commonality that the people of the world should follow. That's why 'Praise Muhammad who appeared in the Arab country and made the tradition of one Lord alive and praise the mercy given by the common brotherhood and flawless religion', said the Tamil Poet Thiru. V. Kalyana Sundaranar praising the Prophet. Such Islam began to spread in Tamil Nadu during the Middle Ages. Islamic scholars have written a wide variety of literary works in Tamil which are full of religious facts. Some have also written stories. This story has been written keeping in mind the nature of Tamil Nadu. Islamic narratives form the theme of the story without differing from the religious concepts at all. It is also written in a simple way for the common people to understand. The Author of Islamic Tamil does not fail to present the religious views in the right way without any variation.

Each communities involves in literary field to reflect their origin and uniqueness. Sangam Period on behalf of Tamil language and Pre Islamic Era on behalf of Arabic language are the mostly involvement periods in literary field. Both periods are still talked about in the field of literature that shows theirs antiquity and literary excellence. Literary discussion of these two different language literatures is an essential nowadays. According to this, the significant of this research indicates that each period has been analyzed separately in many views. But comparative analysis is deficiency. Therefore, this research uses comparative descriptive methodology to analysis literary characteristics among them. This paper aims to increase comparative literature discussions among the periods. Understanding the literature through another literature is the important. Therefore, this research will promote comparative studies among Tamil and Arabic literatures in the future.

Devotional literature is a book of virtues that teaches virtue. Although the gods of various religions are different, all the theologies emphasize the idea that mankind should live together without any differences. It is the people who follow different religions who judge that my deity is superior and the deities worshiped by others are inferior. Saiva Nayanmars, Vaishnava Alvars and the Siddhars of Tamil Nadu saw revolution in religious philosophies. The songs which they criticize and condemns caste system and religion in the society. Siddhars like Shivavakkiyar believe giving image to the increase’s inequality. Even in 20th century caste and religious issues are there. In order to eradicate all these, literature conveys the moral values to people. The period from 7th to 12th century AD in our Tamil language was the period when the Devotional Literature gained strength, and it continued till the 19th century. Hence the Christian and Islamic literature flourished. However, Devotional literature refers to Saiva Vaishnava literature. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to explain the principles of knowledge implied in Saiva Vaishnava literature. This article shows the importance of developing moral thoughts which are mandatory.

AbstractNetworks of travel and trade have often been viewed as central to understanding interactions among Muslims across South and Southeast Asia. In this paper I suggest that we consider language and literature as an additional type of network, one that provided a powerful site of contact and exchange facilitated by, and drawing on, citation. I draw on textual sources written in Javanese, Malay, and Tamil between the sixteenth and early twentieth centuries to argue that among Muslim communities in South and Southeast Asia, practices of reading, learning, translating, adapting, and transmitting contributed to the shaping of a cosmopolitan sphere that was both closely connected with the broader, universal Muslim community and rooted in local identities. I consider a series of ‘citation sites’ in an attempt to explore one among many modes of inter-Asian connections, highlighting how citations, simple or brief as they may often seem, are sites of shared memories, history, and narrative traditions and, in the case of Islamic literature, also sites of a common bond to a cosmopolitan and sanctified Arabic.

The Indian entry into Islam is through Arab merchants, Sufis and various settlements. Islam used the classical literary forms of Tamils and folk literature as the main medium for its religious spread. The purpose of this article is to explore the issues of interaction within Islamic societies recorded in novels, contemporary literary forms of Islamic literature that continue to operate on such a historical surface.

The purpose of this research is to analyze the condition of BMT, is an Islamic microfinance institution in Indonesia, based on a literature review using SWOT analysis. Based on the SWOT analysis BMT’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats will be mapped through four types of strategies, namely aggressive, competitive, conservative and defensive strategies. The results indicate that based on the analysis of aggressive strategies, BMT is a community-based agency that has an opportunity to capture the market; BMT can use the ZISWAF fund in cooperation with charity institutions. Based on the analysis of competitive strategies, BMT competition with conventional micro institutions can be solved by Islamic economic socialization about the prohibition of usury; competition with Islamic banks that have a microfinance program can be solved with the distribution of business; BMT sustainability issues can be overcome by strengthening the regulation, supervision, infrastructure, human resources, and capital. From the conservative strategies, BMT has limitations in terms of capital, human resources, and marketing strategies. This problem can be overcome through their linkage with Islamic Banks and companies, using CSR and low-cost funds from Islamic Banks. Other opportunities are the transfer of knowledge about finance, managerial expertise, as well as the right marketing strategy. In addition, a lack of oversight in BMT can be solved by maximizing the role of associations and agents of BMT. Meanwhile, from the defensive strategies, fundamental reform of government is required to develop BMT’s rules, oversight, feasibility measurement and clear level of health.

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the dimension of Work Life Balance with Islamic perspective (WLBIP) approach in the employee of Baitul Maal Wa Tamwil or Islamic Financing Savings and Loan Cooperatives in Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY) Province, Indonesia. Methodology: This study is conducted to all managers and employees of Baitul Maal Wa Tamwil in DIY Province. The study is carried out to 28 Baitul Maal Wa Tamwil with the target sample of 200 respondents. The questionnaire returned is from 150 respondents. Findings: WLBIP can be measured with 3 indicators: (1) time balance in Islamic perspective (TBIP); (2) involvement balance in Islamic perspective (IBIP); and (3) satisfaction balance in Islamic perspective (SBIP). Significance: The concept and research regarding WLB with Islamic approach are still not found yet. The results of the study with non-Islamic approach are still inconsistent. This study introduces the concept of WLBIP with 3 dimensions: (1) time balance in Islamic perspective (TBIP); (2) involvement balance in Islamic perspective (IBIP); and (3) satisfaction balance in Islamic perspective (SBIP). This three dimensions use WLB concept approach by considering the balance between the worldlife and the afterlife aspects. Limitations/Implications: The limitations of this study are that the author only examined the employee of financial service company with quantitative approach. Therefore, future studies need to use qualitative approach with wider sample (not only Muslim respondents). The antecedents and consequences of WLBIP also needs to be analyzed further. The theoretical implication is that this study contributes to the enrichment of WLB theory, especially from Islamic perspective, which is called WLBIP. Thus, it can contribute to the literature of Islamic Management and Islamic Organizational Behavior.

This paper aims to analyze the potential of the Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT) strategy to empower the lower-middle-class people and analyze the recommended strategy for making economic empowerment through more effective and efficient Islamic microfinance. This research uses the in-depth interview method and SWOT analysis as further analysis. The results indicated that BMT has great potential, especially in human resources development and a clear market share to empower the lower classes of society. However, it is necessary to have an appropriate economic empowerment model following the conditions of the lower classes of society and the need for government roles to support the existence of an Islamic microfinance institution in the form of Baitul Maal wat Tamwiil (BMT). Several economic empowerment strategies have been implemented by Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT). This study adds the existing literature related to Islamic microfinance's role to have the suitable model that efficiently and effectively empowers the poor Indonesian society, especially those who live in Yogyakarta.

This study aims to identify and examine the existence and role of women in the bronze musical tradition: becanang in Bener Meriah. The extent of the role of men in Aceh, including various forms of performing arts activities known as Islamic – the becanang music culture has survived for a long time until now with supporters and performers of the culture being women. The importance of this research to be carried out for several reasons and considering the lack of studies on traditional music from a gender perspective to date in Indonesia, especially in Aceh. In addition, the reason for the low interest of traditional music researchers to conduct studies on the presence of women in Indonesian music culture from a gender perspective. This research uses descriptive qualitative research methods using several data collection techniques, including: literature studies and static archives, direct observation, interviews with sources from various backgrounds, documenting object events contextually, to the selection stage to field data analysis. The gender perspective is an analytical perspective that will later be used to look at gender issues in becanang music culture and the role and existence of women in the life of this musical tradition. This study concludes that, becanang can be regarded as entertainment music and music to encourage work whose musical traditions are brought to life by women. All types of traditional music that use canang musical instruments (bronze and bamboo) as well as arts that use the term "canang" are played and brought to life by women and are only spread around the Central, South, and Southeast regions of Aceh Province.Keywords: becanang, women, bener meriah, Aceh. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui serta menilik keberadaan dan peranan perempuan dalam tradisi musik perunggu: becanang di Bener Meriah. Luasnya peran laki-laki di Aceh, termasuk berbagai bentuk aktivitas seni pertunjukan yang dikenal Islami – kebudayaan musik becanang bertahan sejak lama sampai saat ini dengan pendukung dan pelaku kebudayaannya adalah perempuan. Pentingnya penelitian ini untuk dilakukan atas beberapa alasan serta menimbang masih minimnya sampai hari ini kajian tentang musik-musik tradisional dalam perspektif gender di Indonesia, terutama di Aceh. Di samping itu, alasan rendahnya minat peneliti-peneliti musik tradisional untuk melakukan studi tentang keberadaan perempuan dalam budaya musik di Indonesia dalam perspektif gender. Penelitian ini mengunakan metode penelitian kualitatif deskriptif dengan menggunakan beberapa teknik pengumpulan data, di antara: studi literatur dan arsip statis, observasi langsung, wawancara dengan narasumber dari berbagai latar belakang, pendokumentasian peristiwa objek secara kontekstual, hingga tahap seleksi hingga analisis data lapangan. Perspektif gender merupakan sudut pendang analisis yang nantinya akan dipakai dalam melihat persoalan gender dalam kebudayaan musik becanang serta peran dan keberadaan perempuan dalam kehidupan tradisi musik tersebut. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa, becanang dapat dikatakan sebagai musik hiburan dan musik penyemangat bekerja yang tradisi musiknya dihidupkan oleh perempuan. 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