This article analyzes the discourse of children education in the Qur'an. Family environment is the first millieu thought which every child undergoes. The success of children's future will depend very much on family condition where the children grow up.It is here that parent have a very significant role in educating their children. It is because in its very idealistic level, Islamic education is…
The chage of Islamic law has a relation to the issue of ijtihad, on the grounds that the frequence of ijtihad exercised by mujtahid contributes to the building of Islamic law. In other words, the key success to the building of Islamic law depends very musch on how far the mujtahid exerts his knowledge and energy in making products of law. On the other hand, the downfall period of Islamic law ca…
As a biggest social organisation, NU has generated a new phenomenon on the face of Indonesian Islam. The performance of NU in producing religious, social and political thoughts identifies the real position of the organization. In this context, the existence of NU is in itself inseparable from its intellectual leaders. It is therefore difficult to differentiate between the very initial character…
The third millenium is characterized by such a rapid development of science and technology, with the resurgence of spiritual consciousness as flourished in some religious activisms that Muslim community have no choice but preparing themselves to anticipate it. These two different realities of science and technology and the spiritual ressurgence. The abdence of this attemp means a disparity betw…
Even though the relationship of religion and modernity is a controversial issue, the phenomenon of religious activisms nowadays should receive special attention due to the fact that it shows the tendency of significant increase. On the basis of data collected by the writer, there are, at least, two types of spiritual ressurgence; first, spiritual ressurgence which develops outside the frame of …
This article tries to present a description of the strategy of Islamic education in facing the twenty first century Indonesia. The outhor defines the strategy of Islamic education as a logical and systematical conceot concerning how Islamic education deals with such activities as teaching learning process, supervision, tutoring and the like about religious norm ad ordained by Allah and His Mess…
Islam was revealed within the context of Arabian life in which the women had no volue at all because they were considered imperfect intellectually, and they were regarded as men's subordinate. This hint was implied by existence of such religious text as Surat al Baqarah ayat 282 and hadith Nabi which literally describes that women's witness was volued as half as men's eitness due to the lack of…
Pluralism is a God-made reality. No body can reject the reality of pluralism. Pluralism, in turns, develops as a discourse open to receive interpretation as the interpreter whise. Pluralism sometimes can be interpreted as a reality which propts the existence of social problems hindering the integration of society. It can be said that pluralism is adetermining factor contributing to the social c…
Dalam konteks kehidupan beragama, era globalisai telah membidani lahirnya suatu anggapan bahwa posisi agama semula menjadi persoalan publik, bergeser menjadi persoalan yang bersifat pribadi. Dalam hal ini seolah-olah agama tidak lagi memiliki peran yang signifikan untuk enyelesaiakan persoalan-persoalan kemasyarakatan, sebab kekuatan agama diambil alih oleh realitas perkembangan sosial, budaya,…
Dalam era globalisasi dewasa ini, kebanyakan masyarakat modern menjadikan sains dan teknologi sebagai tumpuan harapan, bahkan seolah-olah telah menjadikannya sebagai Tuhan baru karena dipandang dapat membantu menyelesaikan sejumlah persoalan di dalam kehidupan yang mereka hadapi. Akan tetapi sehubungan dengan pandangan itu, ada beberapa hal mendasar yang perlu diperhatikan, sebab kenyataan yang…