Wacana mengenai Islam dan demokrasi terutama mengenai apakah Islam dapat memainkan peranan yang lebih positif dalam gelombang demokrasi menjadi marak sejak era pasca perang dingin di fajar milenium baru sebagai pengaruh dari perkembangan pusat demokratis. Di Indonesia perdebatan mengenai hal itu juga kembali terangkat ke permukaan seiring dengan jatuhnya rezim Soeharto. Dengan munculnya gejala …
Penelitian ini bertujuan mengungkap pemikiran politik Ahmad Syafi'i Ma'arif tentang perkembangan politik di Indonesia, terutama masalah demokrasi dan shura.
The viable synthesis between state and Islam in Indonesia of thenew Older era was indicated by the goverment accommodated the ideas of Moslems as the new generation of Islam. They tried to transform their intellectuals to build new approach more subtantive than the moslems thought before them that formalized and legalized relation between state and Islam, so the implication was antagonistic. Th…
Islam is not a practical entity. In many cases, al Qur'an, its primary source, is more symbolic than descriptive. Therefore, its validity and vitality rely on the interpretation of the various symbol along with the dynamic change of space and time. About the political domain, it does not offer detail and specific from of nation. Hence, discourse of relationship between Islam and politics in Isl…
Of the classical in the discourse of Islam and politics is controversy on interpretation of Islamic syari'ah, and there is no single or only one true devinition of the term. The controversy is going worse when some groups of muslim with or withouth intervension and support of the ruling power-insist to have their opinion the true one and should be followed by others. This article is comparing t…
Makalah ini berusaha mengkaji sosok pemikir politik Islam kontemporer, Abu A'la al Mawdudi, yang acapkali dinilai secara pejorative dan sering diidentifikasi sebagai ideolog gerakan fundamentalisme Islam. Bagi Mawdudi, politik Islam terangkum dalam tiga trilogi, pertama, Islam adalah agama paripurna termasuk kehidupan politik, kedua, kekuasaan tertinggi hanya pada Allah, sehingga tidak seorangp…
Abu al A'la al Mawdudi arose at the time when the world of Islamlooked for a paradigm of politics after liberating themselves from western hegemony. With his experience in journalism and political activities, he took political phenomena in his country into account and took an active part in establishingan Islamic country, Pakistan. His thoughts concerning politics is influenced very much by pol…