Helmi Syaifuddin
Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Indonesia

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From Subordination to Authority: Women’s Negotiation in Pesantren’s Patriarchal Order Sinta Bella; Helmi Syaifuddin; Jamilah
MUMTAZ : Jurnal Pendidikan Agama Islam Vol. 5 No. 4 (2026): March 2026
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Agama Islam, Fakultas Tarbiyah, Institut Agama Islam (IAI) Ibrahimy Genteng Banyuwangi

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.69552/mumtaz.v5i4.3624

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This study begins with the reality that pesantren as traditional Islamic educational institutions often maintain patriarchal structures that place women in subordinate positions. The research addresses three main questions. First, how does women’s subordination appear within the patriarchal system of the pesantren? Second, what negotiation strategies do women use to gain space and authority? Third, how do Islamic pesantren women produce authority within patriarchal domination? The study uses a qualitative approach with a multi-site case study method. Data were collected through structured interviews, participant observation, and document analysis in several pesantren. The results show, first, that women’s subordination appears in four forms: structural, normative, cultural, and linguistic. Second, women negotiate these conditions through subtle, ethical, and adaptive strategies. Third, women build their authority through everyday ethical practices, which gradually become cultural and symbolic capital. This process helps them gain cultural recognition that eventually leads to formal acknowledgment. These findings contribute to gender studies in Islamic education by highlighting the active role of pesantren women in challenging and reshaping unequal power relations.
From Orthodoxy to Radical Critique: An Epistemological Reading of Abdullah Al-Qasimi’s Religious Reason in Islamic Theology Helmi Syaifuddin; Yusuf Bahri Gundogdu; Makmur Harun; Muhammad Muhammad
Tasfiyah: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam Vol. 10 No. 2 (2026): Tasfiyah: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam
Publisher : University of Darussalam Gontor, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21111/tasfiyah.v10i2.62

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This study aims to examine the transformation of Abdullah al-Qasimi’s religious reason by comparing the epistemic structures of his early, transitional, and late writings and identifying the continuities and changes underlying his intellectual trajectory. While previous studies have largely interpreted his shift from defending Salafi-Wahhabi orthodoxy to criticizing religion, tradition, Arab society, and reason as a biographical or ideological rupture, this study approaches it as a transformation of religious reason. Employing qualitative library research, intellectual history, and philosophical-theological analysis, the study comparatively examines representative primary texts through nine analytical categories: the source of truth, epistemic authority, the function of reason, the status of revelation, the conception of tawhid, the object of critique, modes of argumentation, the treatment of doubt and certainty, and the relationship between reason and transcendence. Al-Ghazali provides the diagnostic framework, while Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas’s Islamic Worldview serves as the evaluative horizon. The findings reveal a three-stage transformation. In the early phase, reason operates within firm doctrinal boundaries established by revelation and tawhid. In the transitional phase, inherited and mediated forms of authority become objects of critical scrutiny. In the late phase, this critical orientation extends to language, collective belief, religious representation, and reason itself. Despite these changes, an oppositional organization of truth and error persists across the three phases. This pattern is conceptualized as dichotomous reversal, in which the direction and objects of negation change without overcoming the underlying binary epistemic structure. The study therefore proposes epistemic integration as a reconstructive model that brings ʿaql, naql, ethical-spiritual formation, and tawhidic orientation into a mutually reinforcing relationship while preserving the critical function of reason.