GHĀYATUT TAQRĪB FIL IRṠI WAT TA’ṢIB KARYA AL-HĀJJ MUHAMMAD NŪRUDDĪN IBNU AL-MARHŪM AL-HĀJJ ABDULLAṬĪF TAHUN 1296 H (SUNTINGAN TEKS DAN ANALISIS SETTING YANG MELATARBELAKANGINYA)

Naskah kitab Gāyatut Taqrīb fil Irṡi wat Ta’ṣīb karya H. Muhammad Nuruddin Bin Haji Abdullathif merupakan salah satu peninggalan sejarah yang sangat penting bagi masyarakat muslim Sumatera Selatan. Karena di balik keberadaan karya tulis tersebut, tentu terdapat fakta tentang sejauh mana peradaban dan perkembangan pola fikir masyarakat pada waktu itu. Karena sebuah teks, tentu tidak lah berdiri sendiri dan selalu ada konteks yang mempengaruhi lahirnya sebuah ujaran. Oleh karena itu, sebagai salah satu peninggalan sejarah, penelitian terhadap naskah tersebut perlu dilakukan, guna mengungkap konteks apa saja yang mempengaruhi keberadaan naskah sebagai data sejarah yang membuktikan adanya aktifitas peradaban di masa lalu. Penelitian ini bersifat liberary research, yang berarti bahwa data yang diperoleh bersumber dari data perpustakaan. Objek kajian dari penelitian ini berorientasi pada historis geografis, yang mangacu pada data primer dan data sekunder. Dalam hal pengumpulan data, penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan filologi tentang studi manuskrip, yang mencakup tahapan-tahapan penelitian yang harus dilalui secara berurutan sesuai dengan tata tertib berikut: 1) Penentuan naskah; 2) Inventarisasi naskah; 3) Deskripsi naskah; 4) Suntingan Naskah; 5) Transliterasi; dan 6) Analisis kandungan naskah. Diantara intisari yang dihasilkan dari penelitian ini adalah: 1. Naskah kitab Gāyatut Taqrīb fil Irṡi wat Ta’ṣīb yang bersifat ringkas ini dihadirkan oleh penulis untuk menjawab kebutuhan umat Islam Sumatera Selatan yang mayoritasnya saat itu adalah kaum pemula dalam hal memahami ilmu-ilmu ke-Islaman. 2. Pemikiran fiqih mazhab Syafi’i yang terdapat di dalam naskah dipengaruhi oleh dua faktor, yaitu faktor internal yaitu karakter ajaran Islam yang berkembang di Indonesia yang identik dengan mazhab syafi’i, dan faktor internal, yang didapat oleh penulis ketika sedang menempuh studi di Mekkah. Kata kunci: Faraid, Melayu, Sumatera Selatan, Syafi’i, Mekkah

Dermacentor reticulatus: a vector on the rise

Dermacentor reticulatus is a hard tick species with extraordinary biological features. It has a high reproduction rate, a rapid developmental cycle, and is also able to overcome years of unfavourable conditions. Dermacentor reticulatus can survive under water for several months and is cold-hardy even compared to other tick species. It has a wide host range: over 60 different wild and domesticated hosts are known for the three active developmental stages. Its high adaptiveness gives an edge to this tick species as shown by new data on the emergence and establishment of D. reticulatus populations throughout Europe. The tick has been the research focus of a growing number of scientists, physicians and veterinarians. Within the Web of Science database, more than a fifth of the over 700 items published on this species between 1897 and 2015 appeared in the last three years (2013–2015). Here we attempt to synthesize current knowledge on the systematics, ecology, geographical distribution and recent spread of the species and to highlight the great spectrum of possible veterinary and public health threats it poses. Canine babesiosis caused by Babesia canis is a severe leading canine vector-borne disease in many endemic areas. Although less frequently than Ixodes ricinus, D. reticulatus adults bite humans and transmit several Rickettsia spp., Omsk haemorrhagic fever virus or Tick-borne encephalitis virus. We have not solely collected and reviewed the latest and fundamental scientific papers available in primary databases but also widened our scope to books, theses, conference papers and specialists colleagues’ experience where needed. Besides the dominant literature available in English, we also tried to access scientific literature in German, Russian and eastern European languages as well. We hope to inspire future research projects that are necessary to understand the basic life-cycle and ecology of this vector in order to understand and prevent disease threats. We conclude that although great strides have been made in our knowledge of the eco-epidemiology of this species, several gaps still need to be filled with basic research, targeting possible reservoir and vector roles and the key factors resulting in the observed geographical spread of D. reticulatus. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13071-016-1599-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users

Experiences of becoming and being a qualitative researcher in the developing world context

This paper critically examines, problematizes and presents my intellectual and practical lived experiences of becoming and being a qualitative researcher in the developing world context (Pakistan). In Pakistan, the situation of educational research is challenging in the sense that there are few in higher education who understand the significance of qualitative research. It is much more challenging in school contexts where I have been involved over more than a decade as a researcher and dealing mostly with teachers and the school administration. In the school contexts qualitative research is unheard of and doing qualitative research is an uphill task. My experience is filled with both daunting and exciting moments in my journey which include my thoughts, feelings, and memories, depicting my stream of consciousness. As I endeavored to enter the exhilarating journey of a qualitative researcher in a developing world context I went through three ‘Es’ which are Engage, Educate and Empower. The paper illustrates my initial encounter with qualitative research and my long-term engagement with it. It highlights how I got engaged and how I engaged others with me. Then it discusses how vistas of opportunities enabled me to educate myself and others, which includes my own graduate students, school administrators and my research participants. Next, it presents how I was empowered and how I empowered others. The journey presented in this paper provides insights into the most fundamental question of how to be a researcher in the developing world context and what are its implications for the global world

Piecing lives together: a qualitative arts-based research

This paper aims to present my experience of piecing lives together, by teaching the teachers to construct qualitative arts-based ‘creative narratives’ (Leitch, 2006, 2008). The teachers who participated in the research were in-service teachers from developing world contexts attending M.Ed. program offered in a private university in a developing world. The paper presents an analytical representation of contextualized images, metaphors and ideas that the teachers used in their collages and their creative narrative to portray their journey of becoming a teacher in the developing world context. The teacher reflections on the process show that it was both a daunting and a very enriching experience and they could use their imagination beyond the written word. As a result of my conducting and teaching qualitative arts-based research I have developed an innovative behavior that is that I developed an ability and enthusiasm to employ new ideas and practices as I perceived them (Rogers, 2003). The findings of the paper reveal that, “While the arts are worthy unto themselves, purely for the sake of artistic expression and cultural enrichment, they are also invaluable to research communities across the disciplines” (Leavy, 2017). It also suggests that to get teachers involved in arts-based qualitative research the teacher educator must think creatively and extend the theoretical boundaries of narratives by including non-verbal arts-based methods. References Leith, R. (2006). Limitations of language: developing arts-based creative narrative in stories of teachers’ identities. Teachers and Teaching: theory and practice, 12(5), 549-569. Leitch, R. (2008). Reinvigorating Conceptions of Teacher Identity: Creating Self-Boxes as Arts-Based Self-Study. LEARNing Landscapes, 2(1), 145-162. Retrieved from http://ojs.learnquebec.ca/index.php/learnland/article/view/281 Leavy, P. (2017). Introduction to arts-based research. Handbook of arts-based research, 3-21. Rogers, E. M. (2003). Diffusion of innovations (5th ed.). New York, NY: The Free Press