Abstract : The value of sufism has appeared since the time of Prophet Muhammad SAW, so it is not difficult to track when the seeds of sufism began to emerge. In fact, adherents of sufism is regarded as an ancient society that antipathy toward modernization and away from the life of the world. But this assumption is misguided and far from the values of the truth sufism, because if he understands…
Abstract : No doubt does the hadith is a second source for muslim teaching. It is the tradition of Muhammad which reports all his daily life along with the companions. It is quite different from that of the qur'an which is transmitted in unquestionable group of transmitters ; the haditd is transmitted in large number of it within single transmitter. Some muslim scholars avoid that kind of the h…
Abstract : Muhammad al Ghazali referred to some important themes which are hardly detected thus far within the Qur'anic discussion, and even within Muslim's interaction with The Holy Book. He stated that the Qur'an is the thorough-going Book, a necessity for understanding sunnah ijtima'iyah, grasping the Qur'an in concomitant with the curren age, a compulsory to provide an accurate meaning of I…
Abstract : This article focus on philosophy of concept of materialism and its develpment from old Greek era to this era. This research was conducted by studying literature through interpretation method and logical thinking. The result of the research shows that the concept of materialism always has a change from era to era, due to the materialism followers always expanded and reformed, on mater…
ABSTRACT : The concept of afterlife is not a cognizant belief in Islam alone. It is present in almost all religions belonging eithrto the primitive or modern categories. This concept postulates God who is just and merciful, omniscient and omnipotent and transcendent and immanent. The concept would become meaningless without a priori existence of God. He is indispensable to pass judgment of rewa…
ABSTRACT : September 11 attack became major event which derail the relation between Islam and the West. It catches attention of much more scholars. One of them is Ibrahim Abu Rabi' and Stephen Sulaiman Schwartz. To Schwartz, the alliance of Wahhabi-Saudi is a criminal. The goal of the alliance is to strengthen economy of the Saudi Arabia and ti create a powerful puritanical establishment of Wah…
ABSTRACT : Emotional flow cannot be stemmed due to historical critic within Islamic community. As a result of its global phenomenon is self-acclaimed that Islam is the best among others as value and power. This fact drives the thing into afore new perspective along with newthemes such as Wahhabism, Salafism, Islamist, Jihadism, etc. The increasing attacks onnon Muslim also shows that religious …
ABSTRACT : In this paper, the writer tries to outline liberal Islam which being coined by Charles Kurzman. Question arises ranged to as to what the liberal Islam is and how it develops in a new age of modernism. As we noted, liberal Islam stresses on human freedom. Liberal Islam is not a contradiction in terms, it is a thriving tradition and undergoing a revival within the last generation. Ther…
ABSTRACT : M. Quraish Shihab is one of the most popular Qur'anic interpreters in Indonesia. Among his contribution in his elucidation in his al Mishbah on a clear acknowledgement of religious plurality in the qur'an. Among his considerable thought is his explanation on the nature of ahl al Kitab and many religious people in the time of Muhammad's era, namely al-al-Yahud, an-nashara, al-Muslimun…
ABSTRACT : Muhammad (PBUH) is deemed as illiterate (ummi). The word of ummi and its derivation was stated in the Qur'an six times; two words are in singular(ummi), which refer to Muhamamd; and four are in plural (ummiyyun), which indicate to The People of Book (Jews) and Arabs. To understand meaning of the word within the Qur'an, we should take its surrounding context into account. Referring um…