This article deals with the way of knowledge to be stratified and classified by Muslim scholars in medieval Islam. As it suggests, the classification, as well as the stratification, of knowledge resulted from muslims' perception of the same stratified explanation of the Qur'an and hadith about knowledge. Also, the different function of knowledge has given rise to the different position of knowl…
The term jihad fi sabil allah is often used to refer to physical war in the path of God. The word, as it is derived from the Qs. al Tawbah [9]:60, in fact connotes specific and general meanings. The specific meaning of it coomonly found in classical ulema's interpretation is related to the war. This interpretation is based on historical evidence and supported by the literal meaningof Qur'an and…
This paper tries to describe the debate on Islam and knowledge in contemporary Moslem thought regarding with two essential issues. Firstly, how to overcome the decline of knowledge in the Moslem society, secondly, how to deal with knowledge produced by Western civilization. Moslem intellectual response differently on the issues, especially in looking at the character of modern knowledge. Some p…
Various criteria have been formulated to determine whether or not someone should be classified as an intellectual.These criteria range from patterns from recruitment to responeses to various cultural or political movements.This paper is devoted, however, to examining the rise of muslim intellectuals in Indonesia in the last three decades of twentieth century.
This paper sheds some light on Indonesian shi'a sympathizers, their particular relations among themselves as well as with others.Following the Iranian revolution by the late 1970, Indonesian muslims witnessed a remarkable religious enthusiasm marked by the proliferation of Shi'a literature.
This paper traces the roots of the emergence of Islamic religious and political movements in Indonesia especialy during and after their depoliticization during the new order regime.There were two important impacts of the depoliticization.First, the emergence of various study groups and student organizations in University campuses.Second, The emergence of islamic political parties after the fall…