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Mosques in enhancing the religiosity among the Muslims in Sri Lanka: an empirical analysis

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dc.contributor.author Jazeel, M. I. M.
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-03T05:08:29Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-03T05:08:29Z
dc.date.issued 2020-01
dc.identifier.citation Sri Lankan Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 3(2) : 74-87. en_US
dc.identifier.issn 2550-3014
dc.identifier.uri http://ir.lib.seu.ac.lk/handle/123456789/6015
dc.description.abstract This main purpose of this paper is to investigates the mosques’ performance in enhancing Islamic religiosity and spiritual advancement. The study primarily used the analyses of the quantitative data obtained from 218 respondents through survey administered among the randomly selected mosques in Sri Lanka. The field observation and review of the textual resources were used as supplementary. The findings reveal that the mosques are mostly spiritually vital, and playing traditional role in enhancing Islamic religiosity in a minority context. In this sense, the prayers and rituals are main programmes of the mosques. The attendance of the Muslims to the daily and Friday obligatory prayers is gradually increasing. The Muslim women also participate in tarawih and ‘id prayers. Apart from some ritual practices such as qur’an recitation and i c tikaf, there is controversial opinion about most of rituals, particularly: mawlid, collective dhikr/ratib, Bukhari majlis and kanduri. en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Islamic Studies and Arabic Language, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Islamic religiosity en_US
dc.subject Mosque in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.subject Islamic rituals en_US
dc.title Mosques in enhancing the religiosity among the Muslims in Sri Lanka: an empirical analysis en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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