scholarly journals The Islamic Studies and the Study of Religions by the Early Indonesian Muslim Scholars

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alfina Hidayah ◽  
Hamdan Maghribi
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Broad Outline ◽  
Muslim Scholars

This research is an effort to raise the development of religious studies (Islamic Studies) and the study of religions that already emerged and developed in the archipelago before the twentieth century. This can be known through the figures of previous Muslim scholars and their works on these topics. The research process uses qualitative methods on a literature review which will be delivered descriptively. While the aim of the research is to find out how the Muslim scholars of the Indonesian Archipelago have contributed in various aspects particularly in the field of knowledge and intellectually supported by their extraordinary works in the form of books, poems, etc. As a manifestation of their role in da'wah in addition to enriching the scientific treasures. So it can be concluded in a broad outline that additionally to the Nine Saints (Wali Sanga), the archipelago has Muslim scholars who have taken part in Islamic preaching and furthermore they explored their teachings into wonderful works, both on Islamic (religious) studies as well as the study of religions.Keywords:Islamic Studies, Study of Religions, Indonesian Muslim Scholar

Muslim Activism: A Survey across the World

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walid Jumblatt Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The second chapter is a literature review. The first section tackles the different theological positions Muslim scholars have posited with regard to activism. This is important as we find that some of these stances guide, or are used to justify, the various forms of activism. I further discuss the types of Muslim activists, and the social movement literature, in order to ground the findings of this book within a field of study. The idea is that the book should be relevant beyond Singapore or even Islamic studies, and locating the book within the literature of social movements serves this purpose.

The Study of Islam Before and After September 11: A Provocation

2012 ◽  
Vol 24 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 314-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron W. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
September 11 ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Muslim Scholars ◽  
Academic Study

Abstract In the aftermath of September 11, the academic study of Islam has been one of the most sought-after areas of academic expertise throughout North America. The result is that many departments of Religious Studies have been eager either to develop or increase existing offerings in all things Islamic and Arabic. This strikes me as a good a time as any to reflect upon the nature of the relationship between Religious Studies and Islamic Studies. This article assumes that the integration of the latter into the former has not been easy or even successful. It provocatively argues that some of the manifold reasons behind such tensions emerge from the apologetics—found among both Muslim and non-Muslim scholars—inherent to the study of Islam. This confessionalism is the result of a complex amalgam of academic and non-academic forces.

scholarly journals Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: On Islamic and Muslim Scholars

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-44
Author(s):  
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Arabian Peninsula ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Indonesian Archipelago ◽  
Muslim Scholars

This article studies Saudi Arabia–trained Indonesian Islamic scholars, both past and present. It also discusses Saudi Arabia’s non-Islamic studies Indonesian Muslim scholars. Since past centuries, Muslims on the Malay–Indonesian archipelago has journeyed to the Arabian Peninsula, especially Hijaz, either for pilgrimage or learning. This legacy continues nowadays. While many alumni of Saudi Arabia’s Islamic educational institutions–formal and informal–have contributed significantly to the development of Islamic and Muslim cultures and education in Indonesia, some chose to stay, teach, and pass away in Makkah. The study shows that, unlike popular beliefs and opinions, Saudi Arabia-trained Indonesian Islamic scholars vary in terms of religious orientations, political affiliations, social networks, and academic backgrounds. For example, some scholars tend to be ultraconservative and militant, while others are inclined to be progressive and moderate. While the presence of Indonesian Islamic scholars has declined significantly in Saudi Arabia since the last four decades, new tiny Indonesian Muslim scholars specializing in non-Islamic studies began to emerge and teach in some universities in the Kingdom. This article, among others, aims at examining the plurality, complexity, and shifting dynamics of Saudi Arabia’s Indonesian Islamic and Muslim scholars as well as their major roles and contributions in the spread and development of Indonesia’s Islam and society.  

Islam Is Not a “Religion” – Global Religious History and Early Twentieth-Century Debates in British Malaya

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 345-380
Author(s):  
Giovanni Maltese
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Religious History ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Global Negotiation ◽  
Negotiation Processes ◽  
History Approach ◽  
Malaysian Politics

Abstract Lately, Islamicists have called to discard “religion” as a conceptual tool and/or to use the “Qurʾānic term” dīn instead, arguing that “religion” entails Eurocentric bias. Analyzing how Fazl-ur-Rahman Ansari conceptualized Islam and religion in the late 1930s and early 1940s, this article presents a threefold argument. Firstly, I argue that a global history approach which examines in a poststructuralist framework how “Islam” and “religion” are used in concrete contexts is better suited to address the problem of Eurocentrism in both Religious Studies and Islamic Studies. Secondly, I challenge the scholarly thesis that twentieth-century Southeast Asian intellectual debates which referred to Islam as religion were mere emulators of debates conducted in the “West.” Instead of assuming isolated histories and ignoring Southeast Asian debates, I contend that the current use of and debates about conceptualizations of Islam as/and religion are the product of one and the same discourse – a result of global negotiation processes in which Europeans were as involved as Southeast Asia-based non-Europeans, even if they did not speak from the same position of power. Finally, I submit that the approach of global religious history opens new perspectives on contemporary Malaysian politics.

scholarly journals THE PROPERTY IN ISLAM (IMAM MUHAMMAD ABU ZAHRAH’S PERSPECTIVE)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
BADRUN SYAHIR ◽  
MUSTAFFA ABDULLAH
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Keen Interest ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Liberal Concept ◽  
Do So ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Based on an observation through many communities, it is obviously that people are very careless on the possession of property, or even merely to get the advantage from it. They used not to think about, but prefer to neglect, the rightness of owning, the rightness of acquiring and the rightness of spending the property. In their mind is whatever they can gain, irrespective to the ethic and moral on the way of reaching and gaining, is totally belong to them, and they are free to do so ever. It is a very liberal concept of property.As a way of life, Islamic order ruled all aspects of life including the ownership of the property. There many verses of Al Qur’an as well as the teaching of the prophet Muhammad PBUH about the property. But the problem is there are many muslim scholars who has interpreted Al Qur’an on the fact and reality based only, and not due to the core of the mission of Al Qur’an. Not to pick the Qur’an teaching up to the life, or to build up the life depend on the doctrine of Qur’an, as it is ought to.Imam Muhammad Abu Zahrah, the famous and prominent Egyptian muslim scholar in the first twentieth century who has great intention and desire of the implementation of Islamic law was one who has keen interest on the issue of economy, especially on the issue of usury (riba). He has written several articles, papers and a book as well, on the subject of riba. Moreover, he has also written a set of Qur’anic Interpretation (Tafsiir) in which he commented on some verses concerning the property and wealth.  

scholarly journals THE ISLAMIC FEMINISM: A Methodological Reconstruction of Contemporary Islamic Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-278
Author(s):  
Chusnul Chotimah ◽  
Arifah Millati Agustina
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Western Education ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Legal Opinion ◽  
Muslim Scholars

Abstract: Feminism always be a favorable discussion among academics. It is supported by the increasing blending of non-dichotomous intellectual and study area, between the pure-Islamic studies and anti-Islamic studies. The studies were started to be integral since the 19th century marked by the emergence of the various Islamic studies. Muslim scholars have conducted research on women from various perspectives, family-law, and humiliation in the society. The study of women has attracted attention of international Muslim scholar that respond to the methodological reconstruction. It occurred due to the concern of women existence especially for women who require a distinct protection. This paper employed a historical-methodological approach which analysed the views of two Muslim scholars which are well-known with western education and concern about women’s issues, namely Khaled Abou el Fadl who reviewed the notes on the fatwa of the middle eastern scholars at the CRLO institutions (council for scientific research and legal opinion) and Ziba Mir Hosseini who studies about the sacredness and profanity of Islamic law, especially the position of women in family law.الملخص: إن الحديث عن المساواة بين الجنسين حديث جذّاب عند الأكاديميين. هذا الواقع مؤيّد بارتقاء  الثقافة الأكاديمية وعدم التفريق بين الدراسات الإسلامية المحضة وما في خارجها. بدأ أن اتّحدت العلوم في القرن التاسع عشر بظهور أنواع العلوم الإسلامية. ثمة من العلماء المسلمين قاموا بالدراسات عن النساء من وجهات نظر متعددة بداية من مكانتها في فقه الأحوال الشخصية، ووصمة عار المجتمع، بل وإن الدراسات عن النساء تثير اهتمام الخبراء المسلمين في المستوى العالمي وتدفعهم إلى إعادة البناء المنهجي. هذه الحالة نوع من اهتمام الخبراء المسلمين تجاه النساء لكونهن في حاجة إلى الرعاية الخاصة ولكثرة الحديث عن وجودهن. استخدم هذا المقال المدخل التاريخي المنهجي ويناقش رأي العالمين المسلمين المعاصرين الكائنين في لب التربية الغربية ومهتمين تجاه قضايا النساء ( خالد أبو فضل وزبا مر حسين) . انتقد خالد الفتاوى التى أصدرها علماء الشرق الأوسط في مؤسسة  CRLO (council for scientific research and legal opinion)  ، وزيبا قامت بدراسة قدسية الأحكام الإسلامية، خاصة مكانة المرأة في فقه الأحوال الشخصية.Abstrak: Feminisme merupakan kajian kontemporer yang selalu hangat dibicarakan di tengah-tengah insan akademik. Hal ini didukung oleh semakin meningkatnya budaya intelektual dan wilayah kajian yang non dikotomis, antara kajian Islam murni dengan pengetahuan di luarnya. Keilmuan mulai bersifat integral sejak abad ke-19 yang ditandai dengan munculnya berbagai keilmuan Islam. Banyak intelektual Islam yang melakukan penelitian tentang perempuan dari berbagai sudut pandangnya, mulai kedudukannya dalam hukum keluarga, stigma masyarakat, bahkan kajian mengenai perempuan menyita perhatian Muslim scholar Internasional yang menciptakan respon Muslim scholar kontemporer untuk melakukan rekonstruksi metodologis. Tindakan ini adalah bentuk kepedulian Muslim scholar terhadap perempuan yang keberadaannya banyak diperbincangkan dan memerlukan perlindungan khusus. Artikel ini dengan menggunakan pendekatan historis-metodologis mengulas pandangan dua intelektual Islam kontemporer yang berjibaku dengan pendidikan Barat, dan konsen terhadap isu-isu perempuan, yaitu Khaled Abou el Fadl yang memberikan catatan terhadap fatwa Muslim scholar Timur Tengah dalam lembaga CRLO (council for scientific research and legal opinion) dan Ziba Mir Hosseini yang melakukan kajian sakralitas dan profanitas hukum Islam, terutama kedudukan perempuan dalam hukum keluarga.

PRINSIP AL-TAYSĪR DALAM FIQH AL-AQALLIYĀT YŪSUF AL-QARAḌĀWĪ

EMPIRISMA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Wahab Khalil
Keyword(s):  
Legal Issues ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
The West ◽  
Muslim Scholar ◽  
Islamic Jurisprudence ◽  
Friday Prayer ◽  
Muslim Minorities ◽  
Muslim Scholars

The Muslim minorities in the West who are currently dealing with a multitude of problem receives attention from Muslim scholars. Syaikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī is the first Muslim scholar who attempted to provide a solution to the problems, especially related to the implementation of religious teachings, as he outlined it in the framework of fiqh al-aqalliyāt. In principle, this is not something new in Islamic jurisprudence, because its legal sources are still the same. Nevertheless, this kind of fiqh is different in the sense that it does not merely talk about legal issues, but also the problems of theology and morals that the Muslim minorities in the West are currently dealing with in their relations with non-Muslims. Fiqh al-aqalliyyāt is also characterized by the use of the principle of al-taysīr as clearly prominent in the fatwās by Syaikh Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī, such as on the validity of both performing Friday prayer in the morning due to limited time for religious sermon (khuṭbah) and during ẓuhr time in some countries. This article will explore further this principle of al-taysīr in the Qaraḍāwī’s fiqh al-aqalliyyāt. Keywords: Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī, Fiqh al-Aqalliyāt, al-Taysīr

Psychological Research Literature Review Canvas

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quang Ngoc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Chaotic Process ◽  
Psychological Construct ◽  
The Status ◽  
Guiding Questions

Without a guideline or structure, conducting a literature review on a psychological construct might become a chaotic process . This canvas was built based on the author's experience in order to help psychological researchers classify, organize, and summarize the information relating to the psychological construct of interest into several essential aspects including definition, classification, measurement, sample, predictors and outcomes, mediators and moderators, interventions, and theories. For each aspect, there are some guiding questions which are expected to help researcher decice which information should be focused while examining scientific documents. The completely filled canvas should depict the status quo of the research on the psychological construct of interest, facilitating the research process.

The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Frederick S. Colby
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

Despite the central importance of festival and devotional piety to premodernMuslims, book-length studies in this field have been relatively rare.Katz’s work, The Birth of the Prophet Muhammad, represents a tour-deforceof critical scholarship that advances the field significantly both throughits engagement with textual sources from the formative period to the presentand through its judicious use of theoretical tools to analyze this material. Asits title suggests, the work strives to explore how Muslims have alternativelypromoted and contested the commemoration of the Prophet’s birth atdifferent points in history, with a particular emphasis on how the devotionalistapproach, which was prominent in the pre-modern era, fell out of favoramong Middle Eastern Sunnis in the late twentieth century. Aimed primarilyat specialists in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, especially scholarsof history, law, and religion, this work is recommended to anyone interestedin the history of Muslim ritual, the history of devotion to the Prophet, andthe interplay between normative and non-normative forms ofMuslim beliefand practice ...

The Academic Study of Sufism at American Universities

2007 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 24-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcia Hermansen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Western Thought ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Academic Study

This article provides an overview of the history and current situation of the academic study of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) at American universities. It examines Sufism’s place within the broader curriculum of Islamic studies as well as some of the main themes and approaches employed by American scholars. In addition, it explains both the academic context in which Sufi studies are located and the role of contemporary positions in Islamic and western thought in shaping its academic study.1 Topics and issues of particular interest to a Muslim audience, as well as strictly academic observations, will be raised. In comparison to its role at academic institutions in the traditional Muslim world,2 Sufi studies has played a larger role within the western academic study of Islam during the twentieth century, especially the later decades. I will discuss the numerous reasons for this in the sections on the institutional, intellectual, and pedagogical contexts.

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