This book explores the diversity and dynamism of Islam in Southeast Asia through the concept of adab, or beautiful behavior. Amid the complexity of Islamic civilization, adab provides Muslims with a shared sense of sacred history, identity, and morality. In the context of Islamic ethics, adab defines the rules of personal and public etiquette: good manners, proper conduct, civility and humaneness. Featuring the interdisciplinary research of nine prominent scholars of Islam, the book offers new perspectives on adab's multiple meanings and myriad applications for Muslim communities in Malaysia and Indonesia. The chapters examine a wide range of texts, spotlighting the writings of prominent Muslim thinkers, and contexts, focusing on the everyday experiences of lay Muslims. Drawing on a variety of theoretical and methodological lenses, the essays reveal how beautiful behavior impacts local institutions, cultural practices, and religious imaginations via politics and law, spirituality and piety, ethics and experience. With its careful textual analysis, detailed case studies, and attention to historical continuities and disjunctures, Piety, Politics and Everyday Ethics in Southeast Asian Islam is essential reading for students and scholars interested in global Islam and the lived, local dynamics of Muslim Southeast Asia. 15 bw illus

Asalamualikum! My name is Sabah Moghul. I am a teacher at an Islamic school in Michigan. I created this book in order to help perfect the adab in our Muslim communities. This book holds fundamental rules about adab that aren't always taught but should be practiced everyday. In today's world, these unspoken rules of adab have begun to disappear. Our ultimate goal in life is to be close to the Prophet (saw) in his actions, mannerisms, and character, so that we can in turn be closer to Allah (swt). InshaAllah with this book we can raise our children to behave their best and create a kinder world.

Allah SWT creates every man with goodness it is the fundamental part of human nature. The small acts of kindness and little good deeds are the reasons why mankind still exists on the surface of earth. When we see a beggar or crippled man on road we try to help him as this act give ... Read more

Hands on activities for children to learn Manners in Islam. Help children with akhlaaq, adab and morals through art, craft and books activities.