Polytheism and unjust social power haven been conceptually rejected by the Qur'an. Unfortunattely, its religious message is not properly understood by many Moslem scholars. They interpret it to legimate their own interests which are sometimes contradictory to the spirit of the Qur'an. This phenomenon happens in South Africa. Farid Esack, a Muslim intellectual in this region, proposes to read th…
The idea of this paper came from the many phenomenas of economic problem occuring in various part of the world that become increasingly serious. Both economic school of capitalist was not able to provide solution for the increasingly complex economic issues. This condition raises expectation for an alternative economic system that is able to resolve economic problem. Current discourses about I…
Diantara tokoh yang berjasa mengembangkan pemikiran iluminatif dari Suhrawardi adalah Shadr al Din al Syirazi atau Mulla Shadra yang populer dengan pemikirannya tentang al Hikmah al Muta'aliyyah atau teosofi transenden, suatu upaya harmonisasi wahyu, gnosis, dan filsafat. Dia menggelorakan sebuah pemikiran di mana logika dibenamkan ke dalam lautan cahaya gnosis. Ia menyebut sintesisnya-yang ia …
Nurcholish Madjid is an Islamic figure who has great thingking which spread out through most of his works. From those works there are some ideas [values] that can be used as foundation to conduct better renewal of Islamic education. This education renovation can be both the concepts of education thingking theoretically and the concepts of education thingking practically. Those thingking are val…
Inti pengarusutamaan gender adalah menekankan kesetaraan dan keadilan gender dalam kehidupan berkeluarga, bermasayarakat, berbangsa, dan bernegara. Dalam kenyataannya, di lingkungan Kementrian Agama Kabupaten Jombang yang membawahi kepala madrasah negeri, program pengarusutamaan gender belum dilaksanakan secara maksimal. Sasaran penelitian ini adalah kepala madrasah negeri perempuan di Kabupate…
Di sepanjang sejarah Islam, bentuk negara khilafah dengan segala variannya menjadi pilihan paling idela, paling tidak bagi kepentingan umat Islam. Dari segi luas wilayah yang dikuasai, Islam dengan sistem khilafah telah berhasil menjadi sebuah imperium terluas sepanjang sejarah kekuasaan manusia, membentang luas mulai dari Spanyol, Eropa, Semenanjung Arab, dan sebagian Afrika. Pada saat dinasti…
Stagnasi pemikiran yang dialami oleh umat Islam saat ini, salah satu faktor penyebabnya adalah sulitnya mendialogkan realitas teks-teks keagamaan yang mereka warisi dengan realitas kehidupan yang mereka hadapi. Hal inilah yang mendorong para sarjana Muslim kontemporer melakukan perenungan kembali khazanah intelektual yang mereka warisi dari ulama-ulama klasik [at turas]. Dalam proses perenungan…
A discussion of the political system in Islam is always interesting and controversial. The issue between Islam as a system of rituals and living systems that integrate ukhrawi aspects and temporal aspects are always emeging in the midst of the search of concept of the state. Indeed today, almost no region of the world that has not fully established a state. In other words, today's conception of…
Rased on Muhammad al Ghozali thought that the root of under developed moslem is misunderstanding disinteracting with al Qur'an well. It is starting poin to search the Muhammad al Ghozali Thought about al Qur'an generally [interpretation]. The study consists of two parts. First, talk about method, and second about the kind of classical interpretation. Their part is the basic of scientifical deve…