dear ibn filfilani, i know the website that you r referring to, and i am a subscriber. However, i reserve my comment on Syeikh Hisham Kabbani. It's not the ...
dear ibn_filfilani, i know the naqshbandi website that you are referring to and i'm one of the subscribers. However, I reserve my comment about Syeikh Hisham...
Dear all, There appears to be some controversy now in Malaysia over the use of the word 'keling', with a lawsuit by an Indian Muslim group against Dewan Bahasa...
Assalamualaikum, With all the talk about the ahl al bayts, I'd like to share a bit of my knowledge on the matter. Most ppl might think that the Ahl al Bayts...
A very well written piece Sabri, thank you for the good read. The whole affair just reminds me of the word, "Negro" that was used to depict the blacks in...
Haniza Z.A.
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Aug 6, 2003 5:02 pm
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To be fair to DBP, my edition of the Kamus Dewan (3rd Edition, 1998) does state right at the very beginning of the entry for 'keling' that the word is "kata...
I'm sure the word 'Keling' started as a non-derogatory description for the people in Southern India. However, the unfavourable turn of history has taken...
Nizam Ibrahim
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Aug 7, 2003 1:28 am
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I sent this before - but never get posted. Would appreciate if Tuan Moderator could consider posting it, if not too sensitive... would be interesting to...
Nizam Ibrahim
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Aug 7, 2003 1:32 am
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assalamualaikum i agree with sabri. i believe all the fuss about the word is just to gain political mileage/ popularity.i have yet to read any response or...
Khasnul Akmal
khasnulakmal@...
Aug 7, 2003 1:33 am
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... Subjugation by more powerful kingdoms has absolutely nothing to do with it. Kalinga was 'subjugated' and destroyed by Asoka in 261 BC - but, by all...
hi there, went back to Malacca over the week end and found out that there are major construction works going on the river, aiming at laying its bed with ...
gilles massot
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Aug 7, 2003 3:26 am
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Wa'alaikum salaam, Sdr Halim Hardy wrote:- QUOTE: "Some ulama especially the Shiites only consider the Saidina Ali a.s, Saidatina Fatimah Az-Zahra a.s, Saidina...
This to remind list members to restrict their postings on this list to matters related to Malaysian history and culture. If the discussion diverges to others...
... Knowing my reputation with the powers-that-be, that would be one letter that no newspaper in Malaysia would want to print! Nevertheless, I did forward the...
Hi, I am not a Malaysian, but I am very interested in Malaysia and carried out my dissertation fieldwork there. (I'm a student of cultural anthropology.) While...
This par for the course in Malacca. The State Government, like the Federal Government, does not care one iota about heritage preservation, particularly in...
gwade
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Aug 7, 2003 2:46 pm
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... I personally wouldn't elevate the above 'theory' to the level of urban myth - it sounds more like a wind-up than anything else ;) Similar in vein to the...
Assalamualaikum, lately the discussion in this group revolves around the origins of certain groups or personality. I'd like to steer away the discussions to a...
For what it's worth, the current notion, I think, is that the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) group of languages originated in SE China, where there are still...
rkdentan
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Aug 7, 2003 9:14 pm
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Re Kling: The myth I heard from a Tamil school principle in the 60s was that, when God gave peoples language, he ran out of languages before he got to Tamils...
rkdentan
rkdentan@...
Aug 7, 2003 9:16 pm
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My less-than-two-sen's worth: As far as I know, "Himalaya" is made up of the Sanskrit words "hima" (snow) and "alaya" (dwelling, house, home or sth like that)...
Ahmad Fazurin Jamaludin
fazurin@...
Aug 8, 2003 2:04 am
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And have you seen the laughable TDC signboards at "heritage sites"? ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free,...
Adlan Benan Omar
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Aug 8, 2003 2:28 am
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... Malaya certainly has mountain connection. But the 'Malai' is not the Himalayas. Seems very strongly to be something else somewhere else. I have to make...
jaybee
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Aug 8, 2003 4:51 am
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the contentions put forward by this group is entirely baseless and it is to the credit of DBP that they have bothered not to rebut such ridiculous...
it is very tempting to read an urban myth where none had ever existed before and i must say that in all my 26 years as a Malaysian hailing from Penang,where...
while being a source of amusement and regalement,the danger of taking urban myths too seriously is that authenticity and historical accuracy is all too apt to...
Hi guys, For this semester I have to create a videogame of some sort, and the lecturer said that given the time frame it would be better to use an existing...
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