The method of maslahah represents serious attempt to discover laws hidden in their sources. All mujtahids from different schools of thought agreed that Islamic shari'ah is laid down for the benefit [maslahah] of mankind. Then, maslahah is the main consideration to formulate Islamic Law. One of the categories of maslahah is maslahah mursalah, a kind of benefit proposed by man but it is not suppo…
Preparing elementary school teachers to teach science by inquiry in distance education can not be separated from the use of media and information technology. In this study modules were used as a main learning sources and video recorded modelling as educational media, which was developed using research and development [R D] cycles. This study involved 43 elementary school teachers who are stud…
Researches in religious studies-as well as Islamic studies-often use approaches that lead to simplistic and reductionist conclusions. This indeed runs counter to the substance of pluralism which is rich in its symbol and intensional representation. This article is an effort to describe the significance of the phenomenological approach to the study of religion by using the works of Douglas Allen…
Married by accident cases or pragnancy outside marriage boundages and free intercourse are blur pictures of our youth generation. In addition to break religious, social, and ethical norms, those acts also ruine their own futures. These cases happen usually because of lack of youth abilities to screen, to select and to choose positive relationship. In addition, this is because of their unstable …
M. Natsir was one of the most prominent figures in religious discourse and movement in Indonesia. He was a da'wa reformer as well as a politician and a statesman. His most well known ideas were about the relationship between Islam and state, Islam and Pancasila, and his idea on da'wa. He stated that a country would be Islamic because of neither its formal name as an Islamic state nor its Islami…
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…
One of the important things in the religion is bid'ah issue. Due to the importance of the issue, some of Muslim Scholars put it into theology [akidah] issue. The knowledge about bid'ah is parallel with faith issue that must be known by anyone and the issue has on the blaming each other on the number of people, even considering as infidel each other when someone does a bid'ah trun. Hence, knowin…
Bibliografi hlm. 139-146.
Bibliografi: 133-134 hlm.