This article is trying to elaborate Arkoun's thought on the applied islamology, which is an effort to evaluate, develop and activate some deficiencies of Western traditional islamology. In Arkoun's point of view, the studies of classical islamology are so rigid and inflexible. They tend to restrict their studies on certain and selected works of Islam, so their works are not empirical, unfruitfu…
Baik modernisme maupun post-modernisme terbukti telah gagal dalam membangun peradaban manusia saat ini. Modernisasi dengan berbagai dimensi yang dibawanya telah melahirkan berbagai krisis manusia modern dan terciptanya pola hidup yang inhumanistik. Realitas kehidupan yang sedang atau telah memasuki the post industrial society melahirkan penderitaan dan penyakit psikologis yang semakin parah. Im…
In a certain community, many of them who said that religion and philoshopy could be related, because, both of religion and phylosophy and deferent paradigm. Among religionists, many of them who said, if the religion is philosophized, so religion will decreas its values and be dissapear its sacredness, though according to them, religion of higher than philosophy.hety.
Iqbal yang lebih dikenal sebagai filsuf, ternyata juga mempunyaipemikiran dalam bidang tasawuf. Dengan setting filsafat yang sangat mendasari pemikirannya, sehingga tasawuf pun tidak luput dari kritiknya dan merekonstruksinya berdasarkan pemikiran yang lebih rasional tanpa meninggalkan dasar-dasar tekstual. Beberapa pokok pikiran sufistik Iqbal ini tampaknya juga sangat dipengaruhi oleh Jalalud…
Gender issue is one of the most challenging problems facing Islam in contemporary era.Some traditionshave shown us how the controversy around this issue spreads over the writing of many experts.
A need to proportionally and justifiably place hadits led to an attempt to selectively consider the hadits through critical thinking. By criticizing the hadits, it aimed to exclude tasykik, that was a sceptical attitude and not having a denial towards its existence. Accordingly, one could criticize its originality [whether hadits truly come from a prophet SAW] and the extent to which one's pers…
Selama ini pendekatan yang dilakukan dalam mengembangkan hukum Islam hanya bersifat normatif-formalistis. Kondisi ini berlangsung sejak awal pembentukan hukum Islam dan hingga saat ini masih menjadi pendekatan dominan dalam masyarakt Islam, khususnya lembaga-lembaga fatwa yang ada di Negara-negara Islam. Pendekatan demikian acapkali membawa ketegangan dalam merespon setiap perkembangan baru di …
This article deals with al Jabiri's critique on reason in contemporary Arab thougt. Al Jabiri expounds some fresh ideas in the frame of his big project of deconstructing contemporary Arab thought in line with the ressurgenceof Islam [al Nahdah al Islamiyah], especially in Muslim countries. One of the most dominant features of al Jabiri's thoughts is his deconstructive method in approaching Isla…
This article analyzes Syahrur's ideology-critism on classical islamic legal theory.Many scholars empahsized the urgence of such critism such as bduh, Ridha, Khallaf, Al-Fasi, At-Turabi, and Al-Jabiri but their efforts couldn't be called as comprehensive cenception.