In this volume the contributors use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to reassess both historic and contemporary Asian countries and traditionally Islamic areas. This highly illustrated and comprehensive work highlights how GIS can be applied to the social sciences. With its description of how to process, construct and manage geographical data the book is ideal for the non-specialist looki…
This study examines the emergence of new forms of Islamic spirituality in Indonesia identified as Majlis Dhikr. These Majlis Dhikr groups have proliferated on Java in the last two decades, both in urban and rural areas, and have attracted followers from a wide social background. The diverse aspects of these Majlis Dhikr groups – their rituals, teachings and strategies of dissemination as well…
In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam …
Much nuance and variability have been lost in the process of the reductivist analysis of Islam post 9/11 and, as this study amply demonstrates, we are all the poorer as a result. This exhaustive examination of the rise and spread of the Tablighi Jama't, arguably the world's largest Islamic missionary movement, locates it in the larger perspective of global Islam and developments in the Muslim s…
Until currently there have been no specific publications, particularly in English, on women in traditional Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, known as pesantren, which played a significant role in shaping the gender issues in the Indonesian Muslim community. This informative and insightful book contributes to two booming fields in Indonesian studies: the study of Islam and the study…
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case …
This volume provides new insights in the concept of shari’a in the West, and sets out a framework of how shari’a in the West can be studied. The premise of this volume is that one needs to focus on the question ‘What do Muslims do in terms of shari’a?’ rather than ‘What is shari’a?’. This perspective shows that the practice of Sharia is restricted to a limited set of rules that …
After violent protests all over the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy. In this book Indonesian scholars attached to Islamic universities and Dutch researchers investigate what happened since and what the consequences are of the growing influence of orthodoxy and radicalism, which alrea…
Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread war and violence, the collapse of numerous regimes, a changing American role, a restored Russian presence, and the emergence of ISIS. In this book Graham Fuller addresses the character of these shifts and how they will shape the future of this tumultuous region as well as the role of major outside …
This books investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation, but also its effects in the wider Middle East. It looks at the German hopes and British fears of a worldwide rising of Muslims in the colonial empires. It also discusses the fierce academic debates caused by the Jihad proclamation, in which the 1915 manifesto of Leiden Islam scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje …
"Islam exists in global history with its richly variegated cultural and social realities. When these specific cultural contexts are marginalized, Islam is reduced to an ahistorical religion without the ability to contribute to humanity. This limited understanding of Islam has been a contributing factor in many of the violent conflicts in the present day. Reflecting on Islam in Indonesia, the wo…
This book presents an overall presentation and discussion of developments ever since Islam appeared on the European stage thirteen centuries ago. The events and stories presented increase the understanding of present debates on, and notions of, Islam and Muslims in Europe. This book shows that in the course of thirteen centuries the Muslim as well as Islam have undergone many metamorphoses. The…
This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s specia…
How does language work? How does language produce truth and beauty? Eleventh-century Arabic scholarship has detailed answers to these universal questions. Language Between God and the Poets reads the theory of four major scholars and asks how the conceptual vocabulary they shared enabled them to create theory in lexicography, theology, logic, and poetics. Their ideas engaged God and poetry at t…
Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of educat…
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien. How did these Muslims at the crossroads of insider and outsider find their place in early Islamic society? How did Islamic…
The increasing demand for halal products, including goods and services, every year, especially for food and beverages, has resulted in a growing need for products with halal guarantees. Along with the increasing trend of the global demand, it has resulted in an increase in producers of halal food and beverages in both Muslim and non-Muslim countries. In addition the demand for halal tourism is …
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944). The volume, with contributions in English and Arabic, examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of ethics and how it permeates various disciplines: ph…
Orang Kerinci atau dalam bahasa lokal disebut sebagai Uhang Kincai atau Uhang Kinci adalah mereka yang secara geografis menghuni wilayah Kerinci. Akan tetapi, batasan geografis Kerinci di masa lalu tentulah tidak sama dengan batasan administratif saat ini. Sumber-sumber tradisi lisan menyebutkan bahwa cakupan geografis Kerinci di masa Kesultanan Jambi terdiri dari dua bagian. Pertama disebut s…
Penerbitan buku ini telah melalui proses peer review sebagai salah satu upaya penjaminan mutu publikasi ilmiah. Buku ini merupakan intisari hasil penelitian panjang dari para peneliti di Pusat Penelitian Politik LIPI sejak 2013–2018, khususnya mengenai gerakan politik Islam di kawasan Timur Tengah pasca ArabSpring. Buku ini menun-jukkan bagaimana sikap negara-negara di kawasan Timur Te…
Pada tataran kajian akademik, masyarakat Muslim Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) agak diabaikan karena studi dan publikasi tentang mereka masih sangat langka. Pada hal mereka sudah menetap di wilayah itu sejak abad ke-16 ketika para saudagar dan misionaris Portugis serta Belanda tiba disana. Para perintis Islam di NTT itu telah tiba disana pada kurun waktu yang sama ketika berbagai komunitas Muslim la…
As Muslim women continue to be a focus of media-led debate, Naaz Rashid uses original scholarship and empirical research to examine how Muslim women are represented in policy discourse and how the trope of the Muslim woman is situated within national debates about Britishness, the death of multiculturalism and global concerns over international terrorism.
The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist…
In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur’anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men…
Barzanji merupakan naskah berbahasa Arab hasil sayembara yang diprakarsai oleh Sultan Salahuddin pada peringatan Maulid Nabi yang pertama kali tahun 1184 M (580 H.). Naskah Sawarèh Barzanji merupakan transmisi dari naskah Barzanji yang disadur ke dalam bahasa Sunda murwakanti dengan menggunakan aksara Pègon oleh K. H. Ahmad Dimyati, pendiri Pesantren Sukamiskin Bandung, pada tahun 1920-an. S…
Di Perpustakaan Nasional RI tersimpan koleksi naskah kuno. Naskahnaskah tersebut berjumlah 12 ribuan lebih dari sejumlah itu terdapat koleksi naskah Arab yang lebih kurang berjumlah 900 buah. Dari sejumlah naskah Arab tersebut, terdapat naskah yang berjudul “Al-Manasik Al-Qubra” dengan nomor kolekasi A 431 yang menarik untuk ditransliterasi. Naskah ini berisi tentang Tassawuf. Naskah Arab k…
The articles included in this Yearbook of the Sociology of Islam are focused on two perspectives: Some link the comparative analysis of Islam to ongoing debates on the Axial Age and its role in the formation of major civilizational complexes, while others are more concerned with the historical constellations and sources involved in the formation of Islam as a religion and a civilization. More t…
The Journeys of a Taymiyyan Sufi explores the life and teachings of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), a little-known Ḥanbalī Sufi master from the circle of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 728/1328). The first part of this book follows al-Wāsiṭī’s physical journey in search of spiritual guidance through a critical study of his autobiographical writings. This provides unique insights…
Di Perpustakaan Nasional RI tersimpan koleksi naskah kuno. Naskah-naskah tersebut berjumlah 12 ribuan lebih dari sejumlah itu terdapat koleksi naskah Arab yang lebih kurang berjumlah 900 buah. Dari sejumlah naskah Arab tersebut, terdapat naskah yang berjudul “Munajah Musa Ibn Imran” dengan nomor koleksi A 417 yang menarik untuk ditransliterasi. Naskah ini berisi tentang Tassawuf. Naskah Ara…
Di Perpustakaan Nasional RI tersimpan koleksi naskah kuno. Naskahnaskah tersebut berjumlah 12 ribuan lebih dan dari sejumlah itu terdapat koleksi naskah Arab yang lebih kurang berjumlah 900 buah. Dalam naskahnaskah tersebut memuat berbagai kandungan isi, di antaranya: al-Qur’an, hadist, tauhid dan tasawuf, fiqih (hukum), biografi, riwayat kenabian, ilmu pengetahuan, ilmu nahwu/sharaf, dan ilm…
This open access book addresses, for the first time, Islamic social work as an emerging concept at the interface of Islamic thought and social sciences. Applying a multidisciplinary approach it explores, on the one hand, the discourse that provides religious legitimisation to social work activities and, on the other hand, case studies of practical fields of Islamic social work including educati…
Dalam rangka penyelamatan isi yang terkandung dalam karya budaya bangsa, khususnya yang terkandung dalam karya tulis yang berupa naskah kuno, Perpustakaan Nasional RI menerbitkan hasil transliterasi naskah Melayu yang berjudul Hayat Al-Kulub (W 23), Pemilihan naskah ini didasarkan pada kondisi naskah yang sudah cukup rapuh dan aksara naskah yang jarang diketahui masyarakat saat ini.
Moderasi beragama adalah cara pandang dalam beragama secara moderat yakni memahami dan mengamalkan ajaran agama dengan tidak ekstrem, baik ekstrem kanan (pemahaman agama yang sangat kaku) maupun ekstrem kiri (pemahaman agama yang sangat liberal). Istilah moderasi beragama memang baru digaungkan di Indonesia, namun ide dan semangat moderasi beragama itu sudah tumbuh dan tertanam sejak lama dalam…
Buku Model Pembelajaran Sejarah Islam Berbasis Kebhinnekaan (PSI-BK) Sebagai Daya Tangkal Radikalisme di Perguruan Tinggi. Buku Model PSI-BK ini dilandasi oleh teori konstruktivisme dan teori karakter Thomas Lickona. Berdasarkan kajian teori dihubungkan dengan tujuan yang ingin dicapai dalam pembuatan model ini maka diperoleh karakteristik model pembelajaran PSI-BK yaitu materi integratif, meto…