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The theory of evolution truly leads to some controversy, especially among those who have high concern with religion. The statements that human being and apes are of the same ancestor, or human being exists in this universe just by chance and without purpose are contradictory to the theism of those people since it fade out the role and significance of God. Actually science and theism must not be…
A conversation about the Sunna is long and on going discussion to the present. The central issue that continues is about the nature, status and authority of the Sunnah [the normative examples of the Prophet Muhammad]. This issue becomes so important because the position of the Prophet Muhammad [PBUH] as the messenger of Allah, so that his words and actions received by most Muslims as a source o…
This study tries to analyze Fazlur Rahman's thought on the historical evolution of the sunnah as his response to some erientalists when he was in the West and to muslem scholars who had blamed him when he was in Pakistan. In fact, the study of Prophetic Sunnah applied by orientalists came up with conclution that the sunnah is not original from the Prophet period. It is so since muslim scholars …
Tulisan ini hendak mengurai salah satu disiplin penting dalam 'ulumul Qur'an, yaitu nasikh mansukh [pengahpusan ayat]. Meskipun ulama berselisih paham tentang makna dan tendensi makna nasakh [penghapusan] dalam al Qur'an, dalam beberapa hal ada perjumpaan pemahaman terkait dengan makna nasakh. Mereka tidak sepenuhnya menolak nasakh, begitu juga sebaliknya. Perbedaan itu bukan tidak bisa didamai…
Theda Skocpol mengartikan revolusi sosial sebagai perubahan cepat dan mendasar dari masyarakat dan struktur kelas suatu negara. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan historis komparatif, Thedaa dalam tulisan ini menjelaskan sebag akibat dari munculnya beberapa revolusi yang terjadi di beberapa negara. Yang istimewa dalam pendekatannya adalah penekanan pada analisis pengaruh situasi internasional sebaga…