Japanese-Inspired Muslim Wear

Evieta Fadjar
JAKARTA

TEMPO.CO. Indonesian Muslim wear label Up2Date has launched its latest collections named ‘Ingenious’ that was inspired by Japanese culture. As many as 60 Ingenious collections were showcased on the runway earlier this month.

The show opened with Up2Date’s signature style in salem and gray colors combinations. The Japanese style explorations were seen in the details of the design which adopted the Japanese paper folding art Origami: folded, bent, and tied. The Kimono was reflected on the Y silhouettes and H silhouettes. The detail of stacks brought out the dynamic impressions. Up2Date showed off outfits in calm colors such as green tea, cream, and dark gray. The peach colors were adopted from Japanese ocha, sushi, and tatami. Comfortable materials are used in the design such as cotton, linen, jersey and the shiny organza.

Alya Rohali

Shirts, jackets, long dress, palazzo pants, and up to wide-cut pants were offered in asymmetric cuts. The collections were provided with simple and practicable linen headwear. “The collections could be worn by those who don’t wear hijab,” said Up2Date ambassador, Alya Rohali. “Up2Date is better known for its natural colors instead of the prominent colors,” she added.

Soon, the label will expand to Brunei and Malaysia while cooperating with Tehran, Iran, and Dubai.

TEMPO English
Sunday, 26 January, 2014

http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2014/01/26/114548444/Japanese-Inspired-Muslim-Wear

http://www.republika.co.id/berita/humaira/fashion/14/01/26/n004x7-bernuansa-jepang-ini-koleksi-terbaru-up2date

IBN MAJID (1432 – 1500): “Master of Astrological Navigation”

Ahmad ibn Majid

Name : Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Majid al-Najdi.
Title : Ibn Majid, Lion of the Seas, Lion of the Cape of Good Hope, ocean navigator, cartographer, the first Arab seaman.
Birth : 1432 in Julphar in Oman (now known as Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates).
Death : 1500.
Ethnicity : Arab.
Region : Hijaz.
Main interests : Astronomy, navigation, oceanography, cartography, poetry
Notable ideas : Helping Vasco da Gama found his way from Africa to India; making navigation drawings based on his experiences and his father’s which were useful for generations of Indian Ocean sailors to sail from East Africa to Indonesia.
Works : Kitab al-Fawa’id fi Usul ‘Ilm al-Bahr wa ’l-Qawa’id (Book of Useful Information on the Principles and Rules of Navigation), a navigation encyclopedia written in 1490. —
Wikipedia, http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com; http://ambassadors.net

Islamia/The Brunei Times
Friday, 18 June 2010

Muhammadiyah welcomes Information Commission

“The problems of religous understanding, houses of worship license, also requires disclosure of information from the Ministry of Religious Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Culture. The Information Commission should be socialized in the community, including to members of Muhammadiyah,” Malik Fadjar, chairman of the Central Executive Board of Muhammadiyah, said in Jakarta, Thursday, 30/1/14.

http://www.muhammadiyah.or.id/id/news-3422-detail-muhammadiyah-dukung-keberadaan-komisi-informasi.html

AL-ZARQALI (1028 – 1087): “Inventor of a flat astrolabe and water clock”

Al-Zarqali

Name : Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Yahya Al-Zarqali
Title : Arzachel, mathematician and astronomer
Birth : 1028 in Toledo, Castile, Andalusia (Spain)
Death : 1087 in Cordoba, Andalusia
Ethnicity : Andalus (Spanish)
Region : Iberia (Al-Andalus)
Main interests : Mathematics, astronomy
Notable ideas : Invented a flat astrolabe, a device that was ‘universal,’ for it could be used at any latitude, known as the Saphaea in Latin Europe; built a water clock capable of determining the hours of the day and night and indicating the days of the lunar months; wrote a treatise on the construction of an instrument (an equatorium) for computing the position of the planets using diagrams of the Ptolemaic model. His work, Book of Almanac, was translated into Latin by Gerard of Cremona in the 12th century. In the 13th century, King Alfonso X ordered to translate a section of his work entitled “Libros de los laminas de los vii planetas”. A crater in the moon named after his name, Arzachel .
Works : Book of Tables (the Libros del Saber de Astronomia), a compilation of astronomical data of unprecedented accuracy. — Wikipedia; http://www.fact-index.com

Islamia/The Brunei Times
Friday, May 2010

AL-SUFI (903 – 986): “A Corrector of Ptolemy”

Name : Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi or ‘Abd al-Rahman Abu al-Husayn
Title : Azophi, ‘Arab astronomer’
Birth : 903 in Isfahan, Persia
Death : 986
Ethnicity : Andalus (Spanish)
Region : Iberia (Al-Andalus)
Main interests : Astronomy
Contributions : He lived in Isfahan, Persia, and worked on translating and expanding Greek astronomical works, especially the Almagest of Ptolemy. He contributed several corrections to Ptolemy’s star list and did his own brightness and
magnitude estimates which frequently deviated from those in Ptolemy’s work. He identified the Large Magellanic Cloud, which is visible from Yemen, though not from Isfahan; it was not seen by Europeans until Magellan’s voyage in the 16th century. He also made the earliest recorded observation of the Andromeda Galaxy in 964 AD; describing it as a “small cloud”. These were the first galaxies other than the Milky Way to be observed from Earth.
He observed that the ecliptic plane is inclined with respect to the celestial equator and more accurately calculated the length of the tropical year. He observed and described the stars, their positions, their magnitudes and their colour, setting out his results constellation by constellation. For each constellation, he provided two drawings, one from the outside of a celestial globe, and the other from the inside (as seen from the earth).
Al-Sufi also wrote about the astrolabe, finding numerous additional uses for it: he described over 1000 different uses, in areas as diverse as astronomy, astrology, horoscopes, navigation, surveying, timekeeping, Qibla, Salat prayer, etc
Work : Al Sufi published his famous “Book of Fixed Stars” in 964, describing much of his work, both in textual descriptions and pictures. — Wikipedia; http://www.fact-index.com

Islamia/The Brunei Times
Friday, 21 May 2010

MUI, the sole official halal food examining institution

Hidayatullah.com- The Role of the Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI) as the operational agency for halal food inspection officially declared is increasingly central with the publication of Regulation No 158 Jakarta governor in 2013 dated December 19, 2013 on the Procedure for Certification of Halal Restaurants and Non-Halal Restaurant in Jakarta.

Previously, the MUI has a mandate as the operational agency for food inspection which is declared halal as stated in the Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia No. 519 of 2001 dated 30 November 2001 On Halal Food Inspection Implementing Agencies.

In Article 1 of the decision stated that the Religious Affairs Minister appointed the MUI as the implementing agency for food examination which is revealed as halal food, packaged for trading in Indonesia.

KH Ma’ruf Amin

The Chairman of MUI Dr. KH Ma’ruf Amin told hidayatullah.com in a release on Wednesday, 29/01/2014.

MUI Lembaga Resmi Pemeriksa Pangan Halal

AL-BUZJANI (940 – 998): “A Prominent Muslim Mathematician and Astronomer”

Al-Buzjani

Name: Abu al-Wafa Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Yahya ibn Ismail ibn al-Abbas al-Buzjani.
Title: Buzjani, mathematician, astronomer.
Birth: June 10, 940 in Buzhgan, Nishapur, Iraq (now Torbat-e Jam, Iran).
Death: July 1, 998 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Ethnicity: Persian.
Main interests: Mathematics, astronomy
Notable ideas: Helped in bringing about a lot of theories in several branches of mathematics, particularly geometry and trigonometry. In geometry, solved geometrical problems such as opening of the compass and construction of parabola by points and geometrical solution of the equations. Established several trigonometric identities such as sin(a ± b) in their modern form, where the Ancient Greek mathematicians had expressed the equivalent identities in terms of chords. In astronomy, devised a wall quadrant for the accurate measurement of the declination of stars; introduced the tangent function which helped to solve problems involving right- angled spherical triangles, and developed a new technique to calculate sine tables, allowing him to construct more accurate tables than his predecesors. Studied the different movements of the moon and discovered ‘variations’. The crater Abul Wáfa on the Moon is named after him.
Works: Wrote a number of books, most of which no longer exist. Among of the extants were Kitab ‘Ilm al-Hisab, a practical book of arithmetic, al-Kitab al-Kamil (the Complete Book), Kitab al-Handsa (Applied Geometry). Also wrote rich commentaries on Euclid, Diophantos and al-Khawarizmi. — Wikipedia, islamonline.com

The Brunei Times
Friday, 25 June 2010

Hajj Operational Surplus Rp 417 Billion

“Director General of Hajj and Umrah Operation of the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA) Anggito Abhimanyu revealed that in 2013 haj operations generated a budget surplus of Rp 417.9 billion.

Anggito Abimanyu

This achievement, Abimayu said, exceeding the operational budget surplus in 2012 to Rp 122.5 billion in 2011 and Rp 170.5 billion.

The increase in the budget surplus was due hajj pilgrimage cost (BPIH) optimization hajj funds, expenditure efficiency, and reduced the risk of lodging and the success of minimizing currency exchange losses .

“This surplus is the largest number we ever got out of the hajj operations,” said Anggito at MORA office, Jakarta , on Tuesday (28/1/14).

In 2013, the hajj operational income reached Rp 9.36 trillion. Meanwhile, operational expenses incurred amounted to Rp 8.94 trillion. The difference between revenues and operational costs of this, Abimayu said, which resulted in a surplus .

Budget surplus will be used to improve the service of pilgrims for the next Haj operation. “The money was not used for the haj and umrah operation, haj pilgrimage payment, salaries, not divided, but is saved back into surplus and will be used to fund the next pilgrimage , ” he said.

http://www.republika.co.id/berita/dunia-islam/umroh-haji/14/01/29/n05rsf-operasional-haji-surplus-rp-417-miliar