Project progress meeting Thursday, 27 November 2008 12.00pm – 12.15pm I showed Richard a copy of my project overview, which as the project introduction, hypothesis, methods, assumptions, a sentence stating a contribution of my research and references. Richard suggested that there is a software which enables me to plot in my datasets which will give a computerised analysis. This may be added up to my method’s...

Project Introductory Fieldtrip Thursday, 6 November 2008 9.00am – 2.00pm As planned in our 1st meeting, Richard and I met in Barry Island’s train station on Wednesday the 12th at 9.00am. The objective of this fieldtrip is to observe features of the outcrops that we’re going to get our data from. It was a perfect day to engage into fieldwork that day. The sun was up and the weather was pleasant. We started...

There have been a few occurrences of Tahaaluf during the time of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Some of the examples are elaborated as below. The treaty of Mutayyibin Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) once mentioned about the concept of Tahaaluf in a hadith narrated by Imam Ahmad, which said “I have witnessed the agreement of al-Mutayyibin and I will not break the treaty even if I am given the best red camel as an exchange”. This...

I have just finished watching a critical debate on the title ‘Who needs an Islamic State?’ (YouTube of course!). This debate was organised by IslamChannel, presenting 2 prominent figures of different ideological approach towards the Islamic State issue. The debate can be viewed here. Ahmad Abdel-Wahab, author of the controversial ‘Who needs an Islamic State’ book made a critical note...

Definition of Tahaaluf Siyasi, in linguistics context. The word Tahaaluf contains 3 arabic letters, which are ‘Ha’’, ‘Lam’ and ‘Fa’’. A prominent scholar, Ibnu Zakaria is quoted in a book entitled ‘Mu’jam Maqayis al-Lughah’ to have said that the root word of Tahaaluf is Hilfu. The word Hilfu was made of the letters ‘Ha’’, ‘Lam’ and ‘Fa’’, which literally means treaty. In...

Introduction The idea of the enraging issue of the Islamic political treaty (tahaaluf siyasi) is not clearly understood by certain factions of the society, of whom are engaging in such treaty. Even worst, such misunderstanding could cause greater confusion among the masses. As a member of the Islamic movement of Malaysia (PAS), I certainly hope that all leaders and members of this party could grasp on the principles,...

A friend of mine, Wan Aimran, wrote a brilliant piece of article entitled ‘Politik Islam hanya untuk orang Islam?’ which can be accessed through this link. As I mentioned in my previous post, there are a few reading materials which I am engaging at the moment, for which each books and articles take quite some time to read and be understood. In the first part of my self-journey ‘Islamic State...