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Mu‘tazilah and the Modernization of the Indonesian Muslim Community: Intellectual Portrait of Harun Nasution
No full textHarun Nasution was born on 23rd September 1919 in Southern Tapanuli, North Sumatra and came from an elite family of his region. HIs father, Abdul Jabbar Ahmad, went on a pilgrimage to Mecca when he was very young. When he grew up he become successful trader, or more precisely an importer of some commodities from Singapore. It was a rare phenomenon in a colonial times for an Indonesian native to become a successful trader.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v1i1.86
Taṭawwur al-Ta‘līm al-‘Alī bi Indūnīsī
No full textIndonesian HIgher Institution of Islamic Learning (Perguruan Tinggi Islam-PTI) was born out of Islamis struggle which started from the end the Dutch colonial period. The struggle itself was tringgered by the fact that in the 1930s the colonial goverment only established a Technical school (Technische Hoogeschool), a Law School (Rechts Hoogeschool) and a medical school (Geneeskundige Hoggeschool) at tertiary level.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v4i3.77
Civil Society di Masyarakat Muslim: Pengalaman Indonesia
No full textThis book presents a study on democracy and civil society in non-Western countries. Like other discourse on democracy and modernization, civil society emerged in the West with its specific culture and tradition. Therefore the development of discourse on civil society in non-Western countries has raised a question: Is a social system that emerged in a particular culture compatible to a society with different culture and tradition? Among other things, the book edited by Robert W. Hefner is aimed to answer the above mentioned question. The contents of the book consists of two parts. The first part puts forward articles written by political scientists and sociologists on structure and basic frame of civil society, then the second part contains various articles written by anthropologists and sociologists on the development of civil society in various non-Western countries. Experiences of applying civil democracy in non-Western countries, as discussed in the second part of the book, shout that the discourse on democracy and civil society is not a simple matter.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v7i2.71
Intelektual Muslim Baru dan Kajian Islam
No full textBook Review: Carool Kersten, Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam, London: Hurst & Company, 2011, xvi+324 pages.This book is a very important contribution to the study of Islam in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, a country with the largest Muslims population in the world. The inclusion of Nucholish Madjid in this work on the intellectual dynamics in the Muslim world has a symbolic significance that cannot be avoided. Until the last two decades, Indonesia and Southeast Asia Islam are not seen by most of the Islamic scholars as integral part of Islam and Muslim world. Islam and Muslim in this area are considered peripheral to Islam and Arabic Muslim entities. In fact, this region is home to the largest part of Muslims in the world with its prominent dynamics. Kersten's decision to include Indonesian Muslim intellectual, Nurcholish Madjid, to his work is motivated by his urge to address the imbalance representation on the studies of contemporary Islam and Muslim world.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v19i1.37
Digitalizing and Cataloging Islamic Manuscripts in Pesantren
No full textPesantren has become a vehicle for the ulama to spread Islam. Most importantly, in the past, their purpose was to use pesantren to propagate Islam and use kitabs as teaching materials to their students. The ulama had written various subjects they taught at pesantren on the diverse materials, such as paper, bark, bamboo, palmyra, and so on. Then, they instructed their students to copy the manuscripts so that the Islamic teachings containing on the manuscripts could be read by other Muslims. This process had been part of Islamization in Nusantara through santri-kyai relation and the production of manuscripts.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v19i1.37
Pancasila as the Sole Basis for all Political Parties and for all Mass Organizations: An Account of Muslims’ Responses
No full textOne of the important policy of the New Order government in the political modernization process was the introduction of Pancasila as the sole foundation for social organizations and politics in Indonesia. Policies established in 1985, is the beginning of the fading aspirarsi basis of political legitimacy-oriented civic religion. Although this policy ultimately gained remarkable success, does not mean religious people in Indonesia accept it without facing a serious crisis-crisis. It can be seen from the response at least religious people who were forced to perform a review of the legitimacy of the social and political life.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v3i4.77
Al-Ma’had al-Turāthī wa Tajdīd al-Niẓām al-Ta’līmī bi Indūnīsiyā
No full textThis article explores some aspects of pesantren education with respect to the plan to consolidate the administration of both Islamic and secular education system. This is an important matter since there are certain basic weaknesses in the national educational system that call for attention, including problems of students' empowerment and the content of education. Since pesantren has a relatively good record in training and education, it can contribute its experience in the development of national education as whole. Previous studies show that the system of pesantren education has two strengths. First, the presence of a strong interest in learning among the santi (students of pesantren) or, in educational terms, a high level of mastery learning. The second aspect in which pesantren is strong is in the participation of community. The establishment of pesantrens all over Indonesia basically reflected the demand as well as the need of communities themselves, and because of that the participation of communities in running individual institutions is quite high.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v7i1.71
Islam and Dutch Colonial Administration: The Case of Panghulu in Java
No full textThis article examines the interaction between Islam and the Dutch East-Indies administration in Java from its formation in the early eighteenth century to the end of Dutch administration in 1942, with respect to religious courts and the role of the pangulu. This article argues that the interaction between colonial government and the pangulu institution rested on the hypothetical proposition that both the colonial ruler and the religious courts needed each other. On one hand, the Dutch viewed that the religious courts should be maintained in order to reduce the possibility of an eruption of an undesirable situation, such as a rebellion. On the other hand, for the pangulu, it was felt that the institution might be lost in the absence of official appointment by the ruling authority.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v7i1.71
Meccan Fatwas from the End of the Nineteenth Century on Indonesian Affairs
No full textCenturies of Indonesian Muslims turned into Arabic to obtain fatwas they need on various religious issues that arise in the homeland. Among the books that contain these fatwas are Muhimmat al-bayan fi nafa'is as'ilat al-Hadith. This is a fatwa issued by the mufti-mufti of Mecca, especially at the end of the nineteenth century at the request of the Muslims in the archipelago.In the book contained a fatwa related to the attitude to be taken over the archipelago Muslims who reject the Dutch colonial government. In the fatwa colonial government itself was not challenged, and the colonial government implicitly recognized that infidels should. This fatwa is quite different from the views circulating in Aceh, where local clerics called for jihad against the infidel invaders. Saudi Fatwa of Mufti is expected to come to relieve the situation in Aceh.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v2i4.82
Al-Siyāsah al-Yābānīyah Tijāh al-‘Ummah al-Islāmīyah bi Indūnīsīyā
No full textTahun 1943-1945 dipandang sebagai masa penting dalam babakan sejarah Indonesia. Periode tersebut menandai berakhirnya masa kolonialisme Belanda di Indonesia, dan memasuki babak baru sejarah Indonesia di bawah pendudukan Jepang. Menyangkut konteks Islam Indonesia, masa pendudukan Jepang penting untuk diperhatikan. Pemerintahan Jepang memperkenalkan satu kebijakan yang berbeda dmgan masa kolonialisme Belanda, khususnya menyangkut sikap Jepang terhadap elit-elit Muslim Indonesia. Berbeda dengan pemerintah kononial Belanda, Jepang berusaha menghimpun para elit Muslim Indonesia di bawah satu organisasi yang sengaja didirikan, yang mengatasi berbagai organisasi Muslim yang telah berdiri sebelumnya.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v7i3.70