Surakarta State Islamic College [STAIN Surakarta] is in trantitional period. Its mean that the choice for alternative changes in the future should be take carefully. This is so because what all we take in present day will determine the form and chance of this college as a whole. Thus, reorientation of Islamic science and knowledge in STAIN Surakarta require to be conducted to find a new paradig…
Qasim Amin dalam mengeluarkan [istinbath] hukum menggunakan metode istislahi atau maslahah mursalah. Hal ini dapat dilihat dengan jelas dari beberapa masalah yang diangkat oleh Qasim Amin, misalnya dalam persoalan hijab dan poligami. Qasim Amin melihat bahwa hijab dan poligami lebih banyak mengandung mafsadat daripada maslahat. Dengan cara pandang inilah, kemudian ia mengeluarkan fatwa bahwa hi…
Pendidikan Islam dikenal sebagai sebuah pendidikan yang menekankan pada penanaman aqidah, ibadah, dan akhlaq mulia. Ciri khas pendidikan Islam terlihat dari perumusan dasar baik filosofis maupun teologis, tujuan yang berlandaskan kepada ajaran-ajaran al qur'an dan al Hadits. Pesantren sebagai suatu lembaga pendidikan Islam diakui sebagai lembaga pendidikan yang independen, bersahaya yang dituju…
Islamic neomodernism is an Islamic reform movement that tried to see and respond critically and objectively the results of Muslim thought and of that of the West as well as the globalized modernity. Islamic doctrines that the classic Muslimsunderstood are no longer relevant with social life today. Moreover, we stern modernism which is always voicing the values of universal humanism has a negati…
By definition, refprm is an actualization of the basic nature of universal and inclusive Islam. The reform leads to the functionalization of religious doctrines into into the community due to the change of human life. The discourse of reform in Islam is taking its established place on the grounds that the Prophet indicates in His Hadith the happening of change eithin a period of a century despi…
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…
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…
Abdurrahman wahid's [Gus Dur's] ideas on reformation are offered and it causes a new atmosphere of thought pattern in Nahdhatul Ulama. Liberalism, democracy, and universalism become the main icons accompanying the thoughts. This character is mixed in the combination of Islamic and cultural concepts. The implemantation of the shari'ah is done using the contextual interpretation not the textual o…
Syari'at Islam menjain terciptanya kemaslahatan ymmat dunia dan akhirat. Hukum Islam bersifat universal, namun sejak masa-masa awal dengan adanya ijtihad, ia dapat berkembang menjawab tuntutan setiap zaman dan tempat. keberagaman pandangan para ahli terhadap fiqh, agaknya timbul sebagai akibat kekeliruan persepsi terhadap hakikat dan kandungan fiqh itu sendiri. Kesenjangan antar fiqh dengan kon…
Moh. Mahfud MD berpendapat dalam tulisan ini adanya keinginan untuk melakukan pembaruan hukum yang berkenaan dengan proklamasi tidak dapat dianggap sebagai sekedar romantisme yang utopis, karena ia memiliki landasan teoritis dan amanat konstitusional yang kokoh.