al Qur'an as the speech and message of God has been admitted as the normative side of Islam which is eternal and sacred, while the ijtihad is a historical product closely tied to the dimension of being and time and the development of existing methodology. Islamic though, however, does not standstill at one accepted point; rather, it moves within a critical dialectics between one and another. syur.
This article attempts at elaborating the contemporary trends of the development of Islamic thought in Indonesia. The author assumes that the development of intellectualism and mode of thought in Islam seems to accelerate more rapidly in the dynamics of this decade. This appears to be more obvious, among others, whit special reference to the increase of human resources and the awareness of devel…