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Rethinking Islamic Political Thought in Contemporary Muslim Societies Muhammad Alfi Syahrin; Khoiriyah; Heri Rifhan Halili; Babussalam
Al-Hikmah: International Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): JUNI
Publisher : PT. Education Research Center

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Contemporary Muslim societies face political transformation involving democracy, citizenship, religious authority, state power, and public ethics. Debates on Islamic politics often remain polarized between formalistic legalism and secular exclusion, making contextual reconstruction necessary. This study aims to formulate a renewed framework of Islamic political thought that connects classical Islamic principles with contemporary civic realities. This research used a qualitative conceptual design with a library research approach. Data were taken from recent peer-reviewed literature on Islamic political thought, maqasid, democracy, citizenship, governance, and public reason. Data collection was conducted through documentation, source selection, thematic classification, and critical reading. Data were analyzed through conceptual analysis and philosophical-hermeneutical interpretation to build a contextual model of Islamic political reasoning. The main finding shows that Islamic political thought needs to move from state-centric legalism toward an ethical-deliberative paradigm based on justice, welfare, plural citizenship, accountability, and non-coercive morality. The study concludes that Islamic political concepts remain relevant when reinterpreted through maqasid-oriented reasoning, democratic participation, and sensitivity to contemporary realities. This article contributes a conceptual model for developing Islamic political discourse that is ethical, inclusive, democratic, and responsive to modern public life.

Reconstructing Islamic Governance Through Maqasid Al-Shariah Muhammad Alfi Syahrin; Khoiriyah; Heri Rifhan Halili; Babussalam
Al-Hikmah: International Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 1 No. 1 (2025): JUNI
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This conceptual article reconstructs Islamic governance through maqasid al-Shariah by shifting the focus from formal compliance to public value, institutional trust, and measurable maslahah. Contemporary governance in Muslim societies is often trapped between procedural modernity and symbolic religiosity: institutions may display Islamic labels while policy design, accountability, and public welfare remain weak. The study therefore asks how maqasid al-Shariah can be translated into a practical governance framework for law, policy, finance, and public administration. Using an integrative literature review and maqasidi hermeneutic analysis, this article synthesizes recent studies published between 2021 and 2026. The analysis identifies four findings. First, Islamic governance requires a normative anchor that joins tawhid, amanah, justice, shura, and ihsan with contemporary principles of transparency, participation, and evidence-based policy. Second, maqasid must be operationalized as indicators of protection, empowerment, and flourishing, not merely as abstract legal objectives. Third, a reconstructed model should connect rule legitimacy, institutional capability, ethical leadership, and public accountability. Fourth, the maqasid approach expands governance evaluation beyond economic growth toward human dignity, social justice, environmental stewardship, and intergenerational welfare. The article contributes a maqasid governance matrix and an implementation cycle that can guide future empirical research and policy evaluation in Muslim-majority and minority contexts.

From Caliphate To Nation-State: Evolution Of Islamic Political Authority Muhammad Alfi Syahrin; Khoiriyah; Heri Rifhan Halili; Babussalam
Al-Hikmah: International Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Desember
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This article examines the evolution of Islamic political authority from the caliphal ideal to the modern nation-state. The study argues that the transformation was not a simple decline from religious unity to secular fragmentation, but a layered shift in legitimacy, territory, law, citizenship, and institutional capacity. The caliphate historically functioned as a symbol of universal Muslim unity, yet practical authority was often mediated by dynastic rule, scholarly jurisprudence, imperial administration, and local political arrangements. The rise of colonial borders, constitutionalism, international law, and bureaucratic statehood reshaped Islamic authority into territorial forms governed by citizenship and public institutions. Using a qualitative conceptual-historical method, the article synthesizes recent scholarship on political authority, Islamic governance, state legitimacy, constitutionalism, and post-Ottoman political imagination. The findings show four patterns: the symbolic persistence of the caliphate, the territorial consolidation of the nation-state, the constitutional translation of Islamic norms, and the pluralization of religious-political authority. The discussion demonstrates that contemporary Islamic governance should not be reduced to restoring a single caliphal structure; rather, it requires ethical reconstruction within nation-state realities through justice, consultation, public welfare, accountability, and protection of citizenship. The article contributes a conceptual model for studying post-caliphal authority and offers implications for Islamic political thought, public policy, and future empirical research in Muslim-majority societies.

Reconstructing Islamic Political Epistemology for Modern Governance Febry Suprapto; Babussalam; Heri Rifhan Halili
Al-Hikmah: International Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Desember
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The growing complexity of contemporary governance has renewed scholarly interest in reconstructing Islamic political thought as a normative framework for modern political and administrative challenges. Although previous studies have widely discussed Islamic governance, maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah, and political reform, limited attention has been given to reconstructing the epistemological foundations of classical Islamic political thought into an integrated model for contemporary governance. This study aims to reconstruct those foundations and examine their contribution to accountable, participatory, and ethical governance in Muslim societies. Using qualitative library research with historical-philosophical and conceptual approaches, this study analyzes classical Islamic political literature and contemporary scholarship through documentary research. Data were examined using qualitative content analysis, thematic analysis, and constant comparative analysis. The findings show that Islamic political epistemology is built upon six interconnected sources of knowledge: the Qur’an, Sunnah, ijmā‘, qiyās, ijtihād, and maqāṣid al-sharī‘ah. These principles can be transformed into a governance-oriented framework emphasizing accountability, participation, ethical leadership, transparency, and public welfare. The study argues that contemporary Islamic political epistemology is a dynamic knowledge system capable of integrating Islamic intellectual heritage with modern governance principles. Its novelty lies in proposing an integrated epistemological model that bridges classical Islamic political thought and contemporary governance theory.

The Historical Dynamics of Islamic Civilization in the Formation of Political Institutions, Power, and the Development of the Islamic World Civilization Ahsan Hakim; Heri Rifhan Halili; Febry Suprapto; Babussalam
Al-Hikmah: International Journal of Islamic Studies Vol. 1 No. 2 (2025): Desember
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This study aims to analyze the historical dynamics of Islamic civilization in the formation of political institutions, the construction of power, and the development of the broader Islamic world. It is motivated by the academic need to understand Islamic politics not merely as a normative system or as a debate over state forms, but as a historical process that continuously changed in response to the social, cultural, economic, and geopolitical contexts of Muslim societies. This research employs a qualitative approach through library research. The data were obtained from primary and secondary sources related to Islamic civilization, Islamic political thought, the caliphate, imamate, sultanate, political legitimacy, bureaucracy, and the role of political institutions in advancing Islamic knowledge and culture. The data were analyzed using a historical-conceptual approach involving data condensation, thematic categorization, interpretation, and conceptual synthesis. The findings show that Islamic political institutions developed through four major patterns: normative-prophetic, institutional-administrative, dynastic-territorial, and civilizational-pluralistic. These patterns demonstrate that power in Islamic history was not based solely on religious legitimacy, but also on the ability to build political stability, administrative structures, legal systems, economic networks, military organization, and socio-intellectual relations. The study concludes that Islamic civilization was formed through a dialectical relationship between values, institutions, power, and civilizational production. Its main contribution lies in proposing a historical-institutional framework for understanding Islamic political history in a more critical, integrative, and contextual way.

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