This book is a recollection and reflection of various accomplishments on human endeavours; it is an attempt to attain a comprehensive understanding on humanities. Such an attempt is in the hope that engenders interdisciplinary discourses beyond traditional disciplines in human and social sciences. The nature of this study is an original inquiry into the manifold of human works. The purpose is to broaden and deepen our understanding on the sense and essence of human works, in various forms and functions, from knowledge, arts, literature, sport, and technology. The manuscript is dedicated to...
This book is a recollection and reflection of various accomplishments on human endeavours; it is an attempt to attain a comprehensive understanding on...
The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents selected historic mosques that demonstrate local interpretations and sociocultural assimilation, as well as a geographical syncretism, of Islam in local societies. The book unveils the contestations, synchronizations, assimilations, and integrations of local and foreign elements into the contextual architecture and sociologically institutionalized system that is the mosque: the Islamic place of worship. The author excavates the mosque’s historical origins...
The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents selected histor...
This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of humankind from the wholeness of the collective mind body spirit. The purpose in reframing human endeavors is for enhanced alignment for livability and sustainability. This book departs from the concept and practice of “design and technology” and argues that most crises that endanger and destruct our ecological livability and sustainability come from our way of thinking and doing with “design and technology” based on the necessity for control. It is the control for...
This ambitious text is a monograph about human experiences concerning the potentialities, capacities, and features of humankind from the wholeness ...
The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents selected historic mosques that demonstrate local interpretations and sociocultural assimilation, as well as a geographical syncretism, of Islam in local societies. The book unveils the contestations, synchronizations, assimilations, and integrations of local and foreign elements into the contextual architecture and sociologically institutionalized system that is the mosque: the Islamic place of worship. The author excavates the mosque’s historical origins...
The book is an interdisciplinary study on the relationship between Muslims and their mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia. It presents selected histor...