Fungsi pendidikan sebsgsi educstion for the heart untuk membangun kepekaan evaluatif, etis dan estetik akan mundur untuk digantikan model education for the brain guna mengembangkan kemampuan teknis aplikatif. Maka jadilah, pendidikan hanya menggeluti hal-hal teknis sesaat, dan akhirnya pendidikan itu sendiri sebatas sebagai training for the hands. syur.
Besides mastering the sciences taught, an educator also has to own ethics [al akhlaq al karimah]. Ibn Jama'ah al Khannani had classified ethics of an educator into three groups. First, ethics of an educator toward his or herself; second, ethics of an educator toward his or her profession; and third, ethics of an educator toward his or her pupils. Personality of an educator according to Ibn Jama…
Dalam tulisan ini akan mengetengahkan kontroversial pemikiran Thaha Husein dan langkah-langkah kongkrit, selama menjadi biroktat dalam menggagas pemikirannya, khususnya dalam bidang pendidikan. syur.
This paper discusses analytically Riffat Hassan's thoughts concerning gender issues. Hassan's ideas on the women creation, the gender equality, and the systems of polygamy and purdah are the main subjects studied therein. Mustaqim tries to find out not only what Hassan views the subjects, but also why she differs in those issues from the majority of Islamic scholars. Using aliterary analysis an…
Tulisan ini mengedepankan bagaimana perkembangan ilmu pengetahuan pasca al Ghazali pada tahun 1058 - 1111 Masehi. Pertanyaan mendasar adalah mengapa pasca al Ghazali?. Alasannya karena pemikir sekaligus sufi ini tergolong kedalam para ahli yang banyak disoroti hasil pemikirannya. Dengan demikian kita perlu tahu al Ghazali, termasuk pemikirannya. Pertanyaan berikutnya untuk memperjelas alur kaji…
The study attempts to convive that Soekarno was not 'sigle-faced'man. The proclamar, whose life was cloaked in mystery and controversy, used to actually has a close relationship with one of the Indonesian Islamic reformers, A. Hasan who himself was the leader of PERSIS. His closeness to the figure had made him become closes to and acquainted with Islam more comprehensively. It had aspecially ha…
Syayed Hussain Nasr is ewell-known as a western graduate scientist who is not only critical to the structure of western civilization but also to muslim society itself. As a traditionalist employing perennial approach, he is a firm believer in the vitality of Islamic tradition. Having based on this paradigm, he holds that the modern west has failed to bring about an improvement for mankind and t…
This article attempts at elaborating the contemporary trends of the development of Islamic thought in Indonesia. The author assums that the development of intellectualism and mode of though in Islam seems to accelerate more rapidly in the dynamics of this decade. This appearts to be more obvious, among others, with special reference to the increase of human resources and the awareness of develo…