During the last four months of the year 2016 in Jakarta in concomitant with the campaign period for 2017 governor election, the supposed hate speeches phenomenon sparkled everywhere either openly uttered or written expressed in social media as well as flyers spreading out in any places of the city. It seems that Muslim population of Jakarta was partly doing such hate speeches against incumbent …
Muhammad Syafi’i Antonio is a popular figure in the development of sharia banking in Indonesia. This study is intended to examine and describe specifically his thoughts on sharia banking in Indonesia. The approach used is library study whose primary source is derived from his monumental works. The findings of this study show that his thoughts on sharia banking in Indonesia are based on his th…
The concepts of Islamic education in Indonesia are still little developed in the discussion of educational theories. One concept that has not paid much attention yet is transformative Islamic education. This study aims to identify the locus of Transformative Islamic Education (PIT) in the thought currents of contemporary Indonesian Islamic education, and compose Moeslim Abdurrahman’s ideas sk…
Islamic Unit Linked: Is It Profitable and Fully Sharia Complience? Recently the interest of society to choose unit linked Islamic or conventional as an instrument for investment rises significantly. It is maybe because of its impressive tagline, combination between investment and protection. At glance, unit linked provide very easy way to invest. At the same time, customer will receive many pi…
Imam Hatip schools have been a crucial and controversial Islamic education in a secular Turkey. The majority of Imam Hatip School students come from families who live and conduct their relations in accordance with Islamic norms and principles. Many conservative, religious-minded parents in rural and small town (in central and eastern Turkey) sent their children after primary school to an Imam …
This paper aims to discuss the acculturation of Islamic spectrum and local customs with special reference to the “cultural change” mechanism that reflected in Sundanese local incantations. In the tradition of Sundanese oral-literature, particularly those are widely used by “pananyaan” (local shaman), there are several magical spells that creatively assimilate with the Islamic symbols. …
This article aims at examining the current portrait of Islamic education in Southeast Asia. Recently, there have been many studies on the role of madrasahs or religious schools in Islamic education. As Muslim who studies social-anthropology,I would like to approach this issue by examining socio-cultural of Islamic education in Southeast Asia. Historically, the tradition has been based on Musli…
This study was conducted based on the problem of kyai leadership pattern in Islamic boarding school in Jambi which is considered as paternalistic and centralistic. The study was aimed at exploring the effectiveness of kyai leadership at Islamic boarding schools in Jambi dealing with the following questions: 1) What kind of system is applied in the election of Islamic boarding school leader? 2)…
Students’ interpersonal problems with their peers, parents, and teachers have become more critical in the present society that serious attention must be paid to overcome it. Therefore, Islamic counseling model which is derived from the Quranic principles has been developed to sustain the wealthy condition of individual students. The purpose of this research is to develop an effective Islamic…