A Comparison of the Concept of Romantic Love in the Novels Ayat-ayat Cinta 2 and Salju Sakinah
(Perbandingan Konsep Cinta Romantisme dalam Novel Ayat-ayat Cinta 2 dan Salju Sakinah)
Abstract
This study uses textual analysis to explore the concept of romantic love by comparing the Indonesian Islamic novel, Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2, by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy with the Malaysian Islamic novel, Salju Sakinah, by Zaid Akhtar. This investigation utilises the theory of persuratan baru (genuine literature) by focusing on the concept of the nature and function of literature. This study discovers that the creation of novels infused with Islamic elements and romantic love in Indonesia and Malaysia is influenced by two main factors, which are the awareness of the writer to disseminate Islamic messages and the profit motive of the publisher. These two factors cause novels, imbued with Islamic elements and romantic love, to become a branded or marketable commodity in both countries. The findings reveal that Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2 utilises the concept of romantic love with emphasis on sexual intimacy while Salju Sakinah places emphasis on the language of understanding over physical intimacy.
Keywords: Islamic novels, Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2, Salju Sakinah, romantic love, sexuality.
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A. Ubaidillah Alias. (2013). Kala Cinta dan Wahyu Bersatu. Kuala Lumpur: PTS Millennia Sdn Bhd.
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Banks, David J. (1987). From class to culture, social conscience in Malay novels since independence. New Heaven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies.
Basma Dajani dan Hala Khalidi. (2012). The literature of love by three theologians in the Arab Islamic tradition. Elsevier 82:2013, 226-231, 2014.
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Habiburrahman El Shirazy. (2007). Ketika Cinta Bertasbih. Volume 1. Jakarta: Penerbit Republika.
Habiburrahman El Shirazy. (2007). Ketika Cinta Bertasbih. Volume 2. Jakarta: Penerbit Republika.
Habiburrahman El Shirazy. (2008). Dalam Mihrab Cinta. Jakarta: Penerbit Republika.
Habiburrahman El Shirazy. (2010). Bumi Cinta. Al-Hidayah Publication.
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Hamka. (2017). Tafsir al-Azhar juzuk 19. Selangor: PTS Publishing House Sdn. Bhd.
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Kamariah Kamarudin. (2011). Takmilah dalam novel Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka.
Khairallah As’ad. (1980). Love, madness and poetry an interpretation of the Magnun legend. Beirut: Visual Library.
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Levy, Isabelle Charlotte .(2013). The poetics of love in prosimetra across the medieval Mediterranean (Phd Dissertation). Cambridge: Harvard University.
Maier, H.M.J. (1993). Beware and reflect, remember and recollect: Tjerita Njai Soemirah and the rmergence of Chinese Malay literature in the Indies. Journal Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Deel 149 :2,1993.
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M. Quraish Shihab. (1996). Wawasan al-Quran. Bandung: Mizan.
Moch Yunus. (2015). Sastra (Puisi) sebagai kebudayaan bangsa Arab. Humanistika 1:1, 1-14.
Mohd Affandi Hassan. (1992). Pendidikan estetika daripada pendekatan tauhid. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka.
Mohd Affandi Hassan, Ungku Maimunah Mohd Tahir &Mohd Zariat Abdul Rani. (2008). Gagasan Persuratan Baru: Pengenalan dan Penerapan. Bangi: Institute of the Malay World and Civilisation (ATMA) Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Mohd Faizal Musa. (2012). Fenomena sastera Islam di Indonesia. International Journal of the Malay World and Civilisation 30:1, 41-53.
Mohd Zariat Abdul Rani. (2011). Seksualiti dalam novel Melayu. Bangi: Penerbit UKM.
Mohd Zariat Abdul Rani. (2012). Islam, romance and popular taste in Indonesia: A textual analysis of Ayat-Ayat Cinta by Habiburrahman El-Shirazy and Syahadat Cinta by Taufiqurrahman Al-Azizy. Indonesia and The Malay World 40:116, 59-73.
Mohd Zariat Abdul Rani. (2014). The conflict of love and Islam: The main ingredients in the popular Islamic novels of Malaysia. South East Asia Research 22:3, 417- 433.
Moussay, Gerard. (1986). Une grande figure de l’Islam Indonésien: Buya Hamka. Archipel, 32, 87-111.
Mujiyanto, Yant dan Amir Fuady. (2014). Kitab sejarah sastra Indonesia. Yogjakarta: Penerbit Ombak.
Nurazmi Kuntum. (1991). Teori dan pemikiran sastera Islam di Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa and Pustaka.
Pavlin, James D. (1998). The concept of 'ubudiyyah in the theology of Ibn Taymiyyah: The relationship between faith, love and actions in the perfection of worship (Phd Dissertation). New York: New York University.
Pomerantz, Maurice. (2015). Reading love and friendship at the Abbasid Court. Accessed: http://hdl.handle.net/2451/33977
Rosni Samah. (2013). The thought of islamic literature in modern Malaysian literature. International Journal of Social, Behavioral, Educational, Economic, Business and Industrial Engineering 7:4, 1082-1088.
Rosni Samah dan Normazla Ahmad Mahir. (2013). A correlation study between the theme of Egyptian novel "Zaynab" and Malaysian novel "Faridah Hanom". International Journal of Humanities and Social Science 3 :12, 139-144.
Salina Ibrahim. (2008). Bukan Yang Pertama. Kuala Lumpur: PTS Millennia.
Teeuw. A. (1967). Hamka as a novelist. Modern Indonesian Literature 69-72.Accessed: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0768-4_28.
Thoyba Mursyidah. (2014). Kuntum Cinta di Taman Syurga. Kuala Lumpur: PTS Millennia.
Ungku Maimunah Mohd Tahir dan Zulkarnain Mohamed. (2013). Islam, feminisme Barat dan sastera Melayu. Bangi: Penerbit UKM Press.
Weintraub, Andrew N. (2011). Islam and popular culture in Indonesia and Malaysia (Edited by Andrew N. Weintraub). New York: Routledge.
Watson, C.W. (2005). Islamic book and their publisher: Notes on the contemporary Indonesian scene. Journal of Islamic Studies 16:2, 177-210.
Yeni Mulyani. (2010). Nasionalisme dalam Siti Nurbaya karya Marah Rusli. Jurnal Sosioteknologi 9:19, 797-811.
Yudiono K.S. (2007). Pengantar sejarah sastera Indonesia. Jakarta: Penerbit PT Grasindo.
Zaid Akhtar. (2008). Salju Sakinah. Selangor: PTS Publication.
Published
2018-06-01
How to Cite
ABU HASSAN, Ummu Hani; YOUNG HUN, Koh.
A Comparison of the Concept of Romantic Love in the Novels Ayat-ayat Cinta 2 and Salju Sakinah.
Malay Literature, [S.l.], v. 31, n. 1, p. 98-123, june 2018.
ISSN 2682-8030.
Available at: <https://jurnal.dbp.my/index.php/MalayLiterature/article/view/2767>. Date accessed: 25 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.37052/ml.31(1)no5.
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