14 articles in this issue
Mudzakir Mudzakir
Many have been done to study the problem of Shariah and other related issues. But little has been done to investigate the notion of the application of Shar??ah in Indonesia in the form of regional law, otherwise known as Perda Shariah. Apart from its impo... see more
Miftahul Huda
This paper takes into account the very fact that Syariah has been a subject of controversy over centuries. Its interpretation in the form of fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) is a strong indication that Syariah is not immune from personal subjectivication. Fiq... see more
MN Harisudin
This paper understands that the Sharah Economics is a serious contender for the modern global capitalistic economic system. Capitalism has been responsible for the collapse of not only the global economic system but also the moral deterioration of human b... see more
Ahmad Imam Mawardi
The main problem that this paper is interested in dealing with is the notion of taqlid, the English translation of which being a blind acceptance. Taqlid is the opposite of Ijtihad, the intellectual exercise to draw certain legal rules from their sources.... see more
Muhammadiyah Amin
Hadith, a prophetic saying has been a living tradition for the Muslims. In their plea to live a better live, Muslims would turn to either the Quran or the hadith. It has in other words served as a source for all aspects of the lives of Muslims. As an obje... see more
Abdul Chalik
This paper deals with a cultural fraction of the Javanese Muslim called Islam Mataraman. Historically Islam Mataraman originated from the Islam that flourished during the era of the Mataram Kingdom in an inland Javanese island. This paper tries to explore... see more
Achmad Muhibin Zuhri
This study focuses on Hasyim Asyaris religious thinking. It particularly examines three key issues, Hasyims responses to religious dynamics in the early twentieth century, the correlation between his ideas and the religious tradition or thinking of the ul... see more
Chafid Wahyudi
The basic question that this paper tries to answer is, is it possible for the values of different ?often contending- religions in a single country to be the basis for the nationhood? Or, can the values of a single religion in a country where different rel... see more
Evi Muafiah
The relation of Islam as a religion and the notion of human right has attracted a lot of attention both from the activists and the academics. One of the academics that has paid a good deal of attention to this issue is an Egyptian scholar named Fathi Osma... see more
Zuriyati Zuriyati
The object of this paper is man in the modern Islamic literature. The man that it deals with is a modern man, a man overwhelmed by psychological deceases ranging from loneliness, sadness, depression, and the likes. The paper maintains first and foremost t... see more
Aswadi Aswadi
The paper discusess the idea of Hijrah and its historic role in the process of Islamic propagation (da?wah). Hijrah is a physical migration from Mekkah to Medinah; a migration that has implied both religious and spiritual transofrmation. In its literal me... see more
Lilik Ummi Kaltsum
This article is about a critical study of the thematic method of the Quran. It studies the nature of the method and provides a critical assessment of it. One of the gaps that the study will try to fill in is the lack of attention being given to the contex... see more
Ali Mudlofir
The study is aimed at exploring the Qur?anic concept of education. It argues that the Qur?an mostly speaks of education in terms of character-building and tries to inculcate noble values upon human being in such a way that the good characters may be attai... see more
Abd. Wahid
This paper explores the universal principles of Islamic propagation (dakwah) according to the holy Qur?an. In doing this, the paper employs the thematic approach by collecting the Quranic verses that speak of da?wah, and interpret them analytically. Speci... see more