Dalam artikel ini, penulis bermaksud memaparkan wajah Islam dalam konfigurasi politik nasional pasca Sidang Umum MPR 1999. Melalui pendekatan historis, penulis menengarai bahwa reformasi yang saat ini masih terus bergulir membuka kemungkinan-kemungkinan perubahan bahkan menggeser wacana politik yang sebelumnya boleh dibilang mustahul diartikulasikan. Utamanya bagi dinamika politik Islam, perges…
The lately shift of power in Indonesia has brought a new atmosphere to yhe system and tradition of muslim politics as a starting point towards the departure of new paradigm is investigating the current political Islam. The political rumble among the muslim community which is mostly enrolled by two main forces, substantialist Islam and symbolist Islam, indicates a positive change; this change ha…
Fondamentalism is, in the present day, an interpetable word. Its meaning depends on standpoint utilized. From the westerm's point of view, fundamentalism, which invariably identifies as radicalism, extremism, even terorism, is always viewed in a negative way, especially it refers to the muslims who strictly grasp and implement Islamic teachings, Its existence is so dangerous for western interes…
This article examines the relationship between the ruler and the ruled that are involved become main factors actor of socio-political life of a nation. In it, the writer explains the dinamic of Islamic political thought and its consequent deeds in historical process of Islamic civilization both during pre-modern and modern. Based, on this research, the writer concluds that there a gap in the re…
Wacana mengenai Islam dan demokrasi terutama mengenai apakah Islam dapat memainkan peranan yang lebih positif dalam gelombang demokrasi menjadi marak sejak era pasca perang dingin di fajar milenium baru sebagai pengaruh dari perkembangan pusat demokratis. Di Indonesia perdebatan mengenai hal itu juga kembali terangkat ke permukaan seiring dengan jatuhnya rezim Soeharto. Dengan munculnya gejala …
Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkap pemikiran politik Ahmad Syafi'i Ma'arif tentang perkembangan politik di Indonesia, terutama masalah demokrasi dan shura.
The viable synthesis between state and Islam in Indonesia of thenew Older era was indicated by the goverment accommodated the ideas of Moslems as the new generation of Islam. They tried to transform their intellectuals to build new approach more subtantive than the moslems thought before them that formalized and legalized relation between state and Islam, so the implication was antagonistic. Th…
Islam is not a practical entity. In many cases, al Qur'an, its primary source, is more symbolic than descriptive. Therefore, its validity and vitality rely on the interpretation of the various symbol along with the dynamic change of space and time. About the political domain, it does not offer detail and specific from of nation. Hence, discourse of relationship between Islam and politics in Isl…
Of the classical in the discourse of Islam and politics is controversy on interpretation of Islamic syari'ah, and there is no single or only one true devinition of the term. The controversy is going worse when some groups of muslim with or withouth intervension and support of the ruling power-insist to have their opinion the true one and should be followed by others. This article is comparing t…