edited by George Archer, Maria M. Dakake and Daniel A. Madigan.
The position of woman and knowledge in Islamic perspective has been an interesting issue in Islamic studies. One of the female Muslim scholars who focus her studies on feminism is Sa’diyya Shaikh. By exploring Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, this paper is aimed at explaining the basic concepts of the philosophical hermeneutics of Sa’diyya Shaikh’s “Knowledge, Wom…
Hermeneutics is often suspected as 'not from the Islamic treasury'. Although the topic of interpretation has been introduced by Aristotle in“ On Interpretation,” Hermeneutics became an independent subject in the science of philosophy in the seventeenth century mainly related to theinterpretation of texts and literary works. Another suspicion of the presence of Hermeneutics in Islamic treasu…
This article concerns with the interpretation of the Quranic verses on dhikr (rememberance) in their various forms and contexts. It seeks to explore a great variety of exegesis (tafsîr) literature written by Indonesian exegetes such as Mahmud Yunus, Hasby ash-Shiddieqy, Hamka and M. Quraish Shihab. Using the method of comparative exegesis (tafsîr muqârin), this article aims to reveal how the…
Yogyakarta is known as a tolerans society, suddenly shocked by an incidence of the destruction of the Ndoro Purbo’s grave, the 6th Sultan Hamengku Buwono’s grandchild, by irresponsible persons. In response to this incidence, a Nahdliyin (NU) community in Yogyakarta performs sacred rituals called an ‘istighotsah’. This is a qualitative research (case study) that aims to answer three prob…
An commentators will attempt to uncover and explain the meaning of the verses of the Quran with all the power and knowledge he has. Al Tabari M.Abduh,al Zamakhsari and altabaitabai are some comentators who have contributed greatly in establising the methodologi of interpretation of the koran.Simirlarly,M.Shahrur,Even if it is only partially in interpreting the koran as interpretation is mawdu'i…
Martin used a keyword data fields" as a basis on his research which represents his constructive criticism to Islamic studies. Martin's thought was constructed on two groups of data fields
The keyword of Richard C. Martin's ideas is data Fields". It plays as a constructive criticism for Islamic Studies. His view maintains the issues on religious studies and the responds of Muslim writers. It also touches the themes of scripture and prophet
Nowadays, violence in the name of religion increases so much. Itcan be seen through mass media, either printed or electronic. Ii is symmetrical with the dynamics of its violence with its variants. This phenomenon arises in dealing with the act of terror of WTC September 11, 2001. There are four major discussions in this article, namely: first, radicalism, fundamentalism, religion violence is b…
Strive interpretation of al Qur'an in Indonesia have walked from a long time. Started from interpretation verbally, afterward expand till in the form of written. its writing history, various more interpet have been appeared by all writer interpret with many kind method manner and pattern which longer to indicate that interpret study in Indonesia more expand.yo.