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Living Islam as a Transformative Philosophy: A Systematic Analysis and Integrative Multilevel Conceptual Model Ali Murfi; Ahmad Syafii; Gatot Prasetyo
Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/bnavsn85

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Living Islam scholarship has expanded across Islamic studies, anthropology, education, bioethics, socio-ecological ethics, and digital governance, yet its findings remain fragmented between normative renewal and thick descriptions of everyday practice. This systematic analysis synthesizes how Islam is mobilized as a transformative ethical-philosophical framework under contemporary pressures and develops an integrative multilevel model linking interpretation to public outcomes. Using a protocol-guided search across Scopus, Web of Science, and targeted hand-searching, 764 records were identified; 23 duplicates were removed; 741 titles and abstracts were screened; and 57 full texts were included for content analysis. Coding captured issue domains, philosophical foundations, evidence types, levels of analysis, and recurring mechanisms of change. The corpus clusters into six thematic streams: normative foundations and interpretive renewal; lived Islam, epistemology, and methodology; education and institutional mediation; socio-ecological ethics and sustainability; bioethics and health professions; and human rights, pluralism, governance, and digital/AI ethics. Four gaps emerge: conceptual inflation, discontinuities in the mechanisms linking micro-level practices to policy-level change, limited evaluative designs, and recurring authority contestation and politicization. The resulting model traces ethical transformation from normative reinterpretation to ethical internalization, collective enactment, institutional mediation, policy translation and public governance, and observable outcomes across micro, community, institutional, policy, and global-digital levels. The model offers testable propositions for multiple-case studies across sites, participatory action research, policy evaluation, and mixed-methods validation.
Khaled Abou El Fadl’s Hermeneutics as an Ethics of Living Islam: Religious Authority, Interpretive Authoritarianism, and Gender Justice Yanuar Rizki Fauziah; Ali Murfi
Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses Vol. 8 No. 2 (2025): Issue in Press
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/d127dm55

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This article analyzes Khaled Abou El Fadl’s hermeneutics as an ethical-philosophical framework for understanding religious authority, critiquing interpretive authoritarianism, and formulating an ethics of Islamic interpretation within the discourse of Living Islam. In this article, Living Islam is understood as an analytical framework that positions Islam as a living tradition shaped through the relationships among the text, authority, social practices, and Muslim experiences. This article addresses the limitations of previous studies, which have predominantly situated Abou El Fadl’s thought within the frameworks of Islamic law, fiqh reform, and critiques of authoritarian fatwas, but have not explicitly examined it as an ethics of Living Islam. This study employs a qualitative library-based research design using a critical-hermeneutic approach. The primary data sources include Abou El Fadl’s major works, while the secondary sources comprise literature on Islamic hermeneutics, Islamic legal authority, gender justice, qawwamun, qiwamah, lived religion, and lived Islam. Purposively selected sources were analyzed through document analysis, qualitative content analysis, and critical-hermeneutic interpretation. The findings demonstrate that interpretive authoritarianism emerges when interpreters foreclose the autonomy of the text and transform human interpretation into a final claim regarding God’s will. Abou El Fadl’s hermeneutics situates religious meaning within an ethical relationship among the author, the text, and the reader, while constraining interpretation through five moral prerequisites: honesty, diligence, comprehensiveness, reasonableness, and self-restraint. The interpretation of qawwamun underscores the importance of a contextual and justice-oriented approach to gender interpretation. The contribution of this article lies in its synthesis of a model of the ethics of Living Islam that connects the critique of authoritarianism, hermeneutic relationships, the moral prerequisites of interpreters, and the social consequences of interpretation for gender justice and contemporary Muslim realities.