There is always suspicious view from Moslem intellectual to orientalist’s researches and studies on Islamic discourse. The former sees doubtfully that orientalist’s research on Islam is fully bias and politically tendentious. William G. Millward observed this Moslem’s suspicion within their books. Moreover, Iranian Moslem Intellectuals, according to Millward, tend to be apologetic and emo…
this paper attempts to explore two leading civilizations in the world, Islam and the West. When Islam, which is identical with the East, has tried to observe the West by using occidentalism as its epistemological approach, polemic and debate arise. Tension between West and East takes another new volume. In his thesis on clash of civilization, Samuel Huntington puts Islam vis a vis the West in t…
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One of forces striking Qur'anic studies in Indonesia is Qur'anic textuality, which only able to reproduce debates around the issues of reconstruction of ulumul Qur'an in contemporary era. Furthermore, this trend seems to exclude another important issue on Qur'anic studies in Indonesia, i.e. Qur'an society. This paper aims to explore some alternative trends on the issues of Qur'an in society, ar…
Ketidak puasan terhadap cara kerja filsafat dalam memahami realitas telah melahirkan kouter critic dari kalangan para filusuf sendiri, salah satunya adalah filsuf Prancis kenamaan Jacques Derrida yang kemudian melahirkan konsep dekontruksi". Melalui cara baca dekontruktifnya ini Derrida menunjukkan kelemahan filsafat yang berambisi menghadirkan kebenaran riil yang bersifat extralinguistik denga…
Kajian orientalisme atas Islam memiliki akar tradisi yang cukup panjang di dunia akademik Barat. Orientalisme berkembang seiring dengan berbagaikepentingan yang mengitarinya dari masa klasiknya sampai dengan bentuk kontemporernya. Sebagai disiplin keilmuan orientalisme sulit membebaskan diri dari unsur-unsur kepentingan di luar kepentingan ilmiah dalam melihat Islam. Hal ini menimbulkan stigma …
This paper examines history of science in islam that includes about the development of science factors, the construction of science. and the influnce of sciences in islam on west.