Tulisan berikut ini menelaah urgensi dan signifikansi ayat-ayat mutasyabihat di dalam penafsiran Al Qur'an.Konsep muhkam dan mutasyabih merupakan salah satu isu kontroversial dalam bidang kajian-kajian Al Qur'an karena tidak ada kesepakatan di antara para sarjana muslim mengenai permasalahan tersebut.Mereka sepakat menerima konsep muhkam secara aklamasi, tetapi mereka berbeda pendapat tentang k…
John Locke(1632-1704), the founder of modern empiricism, was an english philosopher who in his essay Concerning human understanding(1690) launched a massive broadside against the doctrine of innateness, arguing instead that the senses are the primary source of all knowledge.
Studi on the wars of apostasy shows that the meaning of riddah at Abu Bakr's reign has more extensive connotation. It was not only defined as the rejection of the former religion [Islam]. But also as every deed of renegade and rebel againts Islamic goverment. There were many factors to do apostasy. Such as refusal of paying alms, denial againts the caliphate of Abu Bakr, disconnection from the …
Isra'illiyat stories leaning to the sources of jews or christians, the Torah and the Gospel. He slipped into the books of tafsir, among others, because the stories are conveyed in the Qur'an is very global, whereas similiar stories found in the Torah and the Gospel are described in detail. He can be classified into three types, namely 1)story line with Islamic teachings, which can be used to be…
Islamic education is the integral education, and usually makes balance among aspects to actualize the unity of subtance; between faith, Islam and charity, between formal education, non formal, and informal; and cognitive aspect, affective, and psychomotor, and knowledge, charity and morals. The unbalanceness among the above aspect will cause the lameness and unsuccessfulness in education. On th…
Di antara disiplin ilmu Islam murni; tafsir, hadits, tauhid, fiqh, akhlak, dan tasawuf, maka fiqh adalah disiplin ilmu yang paling kaya pendekatan-pendekatan epistemologisnya. Sementara itu pendidikan islam belum memiliki sama sekali. Ini benar-benar merupakan tantangan. Sedangkan kaum Muslim sedang berhadapan dengan epistemologi barat yang dipandang sebagai epistemologi universal sehingga mere…
There are many kinds of pesantren [Islamic Boarding School] categorized in different perspective. Based on liberal views, there are pesantren salafiy [traditional] and pesantren khalafiy [modern]. Nowadays, there terms, namely, salafiy and khalafiy just to differenciate easily, because this category still has problems. Generally, the traditional Islamic boarding school [salafiy] needs more deve…
This article tries to describe cotemporary Islamic thought in Indonesia, which is influenced by modern and critical social sciences. The Islamic Liberalism is considered by some people as a new school (madzhab) in the Indonesian Islamic thought. What is the relevance of the islamic Liberalism while Indonesia in economic crisis? Who are the figures of the Islamic Liberalism in Indonesia? The Isl…