Time distance between al Qur'an and time occurance make some problems because social change has been done. To response it, Islamic Thinkers offered two paradigms that is literal skriptualis and literal diskriptualis approachs, They were difference on textual existences: one hand, give meaning al Qur'an as holy textuals, sacred and can't be discussed. In other hand, texts is dispositioned as ada…
Various criteria have been formulated to determine whether or not someone should be classified as an intellectual.These criteria range from patterns from recruitment to responeses to various cultural or political movements.This paper is devoted, however, to examining the rise of muslim intellectuals in Indonesia in the last three decades of twentieth century.
This paper is an attempt to review the islamic reform agendas that have been set by muslims reformists since the last century.Islamic reform movement has developed and spread from the middle east to many muslim countries in the world.
The current situstion of islamic literature in Indonesia shows significant and important development in realtion to acthetic, thematic, market, society, publishing industry and literary writing.
This paper traces the roots of the emergence of Islamic religious and political movements in Indonesia especialy during and after their depoliticization during the new order regime.There were two important impacts of the depoliticization.First, the emergence of various study groups and student organizations in University campuses.Second, The emergence of islamic political parties after the fall…
This study examines the formalisation of Islamic attire among minangkabau people - particularly among school student in padang. West sumatra - in the spirit of focues on the conceptuaqlisation and enforcemen of the mayor's olicy concerning Islamic attire for student in the Mayoral Decree (No. 451.422/2005) in line with the rampant shari'ah-influenced by-laws troughout west sumatra. I argue thet…
This paper analyses the meaning of friday prayer for indonesian muslims students in canberra, Australia. Due to the nature of obligatory prayer (salah) in islam, it is hard to identity the symbolic meaning of every movement of prayer for the muslim participant. However, using bowen's analysis, this paper emphasizes the social significance of friday prayer for its participant in a particular pla…