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…
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…
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…
For decades, scholars of Indonesia have rejected the religious claims of the Darul Islam movement, interpreting the antagonism between the Islamic state and Soekarno’s republic as a fight for power, self-assertion, or land rights. Recently Kartosuwiryo and the Darul Islam have become heroic symbols of the local Islamist struggle, offering an alternative vision of this politician. The author l…
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 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…
Islam in the Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith critically examines the unique challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. From the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt School’s critical theory, this book attempts not only to diagnose the current problems stemming from a marginalization of Islam in the secular West, but also to…
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…