jawapan kepada nik aziz: feb 16 11

By al-Din on February 16, 2011 10:12 PM

Islam kuda tunggangan politik NA dan dia dan penyokongnya pula menjadi kuda tunggangan DAP. NA is beyond recall. Nonetheless, things need to be said and stand corrected for that is required of Muslims otherwise we are deemed as collaborators. At stake also is Malay unity and hence survival.

On Point 38: Alfarabi (Abu Nasr Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Tarkhan Ibn Awzalagh al-Farabi, b.870-d.950) widely referred as "the second teacher" ie. second after Socrates was born in Turkestan. He first studied Islamic jurisprudence and music in Bukhara, then moved to Marv to study logic with a Nestorian Christian monk, Yuhanna Ibn Haylan.

Around 905, Alfarabi left Baghdad for Byzantium to study Greek sciences and philosophy for 8 years. He was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as religion generally.

Alfarabi's interest in mathematics is evidenced in commentaries on the 'Elements' of Euclid and 'Almagest' of Ptolemy, as well as writings on the history and theory of music. His political writings on the 'Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle' rendered him as the founder of Islamic political philosophy. He died in Damascus.

malaysia pusaka tanah melayu: feb 2 2011

Sustainable Living Institute (SAVE) said...

The Malays are among the original people of Nusantara. DNA profiling would further help to establish the inter-connectedness of the various races, ethnics,tribes of the Malay Archipelago. Much have been written and who's who in Nusantaran historiography (partial) is given below:

Antiquity - Ivor HN Evans, Thomas Braddell, Tom Harrisson, Wilhelm G Solheim, Paul Wheatley, Brian AV Peacock, Peter Bellwood

History - RO Winstedt, W Linehan, KG Tregoning, Frank Swettenham, Buyong Adil, Khoo Kay Kim, Muhd Yusof Ibrahim, Muhammad Yusoff Hashim, Zainal Abidin Abdul Wahid, JM Gullick, Abdullah Zakaria Ghazali, A Talib Ahmad

Culture - WE Maxwell, RJ Wilkinson, RO Winstedt, Ivor HN Evans, Hugh Clifford, Abdullah Sidek, Shamsuddin Saleh, Mohd Taib Osman, S Singaravelu, Abdul Latiff Abu Bakar, Hashim Awang, AR, Ismail Hamid, Zaharah Taha

Literature - Pramoedya Ananta Toer

Education - Za'aba, Awang Had Salleh

Islam - Haji Abdul Malik bin Abd Karim Amrullah (HAMKA),Syed Shaykh al-Hady, Wan Muhd Saghir Abdullah, Syed Muhammad Naguib al-Atas, Shafie Abu Bakar

Agriculture - IH Burkill, HN Ridley

Politics - William R Roff, Mohammad Redzuan Othman, Abdullah Zakaria Ghazali

Ethnomedicine - JD Gimlette

Orang Asli - Ivor HN Evans, JR Logan, Iskandar Carey

Melanau - George Jamuh

Iban & others - Ivor HN Evans, Benedict Sandin, Anthony JN Richards, J Derek Freeman

Sarawak - Robert Nicholl, Tom Harrisson, Nicholas Tarling, RH Reece

Brunei - William H Treacher, Robert Nicholl, Donald E Brown, Awang Mohd Jamil al-Sufri

Srivijaya - Slametmuljana

Barus - Jane Drakard

Java - Douwe A Rinkes, Merle C Ricklefs, GWJ Drewes

Acheh - Teuku Iskandar, Anthony Reid, A Hasjmy

Minangkabau - Umar Junus, RO Winstedt, Norhalim Ibrahim

Riau - Raja Ali Haji ibn Ahmad, Abu Hassan Mohd Sham

Sulawesi - Christian Pelras

Maluku - James T Collins

Moro - Gregrio F Zaide, CA Majul, Najeeb M Saleeby

Patani - Kobkua Suwannathat-Pian, Chandran Jeshrun, Nik Anuar Nik Mahmud