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Transforming Religious Authority: Fatwas in the Social Media Era Zuhri, Saifuddin; Fitriyani, Fitriyani; Munandar, Aris; Rahma, Achmad Dicky Arief Nur; Dahlan, Muammar
YUDISIA : Jurnal Pemikiran Hukum dan Hukum Islam Vol 17, No 1 (2026): YUDISIA : Jurnal Pemikiran Hukum dan Hukum Islam
Publisher : Program Studi Hukum Keluarga Islam

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21043/yudisia.v17i1.34568

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This study examines the contestation of religious authority in Indonesia in the social media era by analyzing how digital platforms reshape the production, circulation, and validation of Islamic legal opinions. Despite the growing influence of online preachers and digital fatwas, limited research has examined how social media transforms the mechanisms of religious authority and the formation of Islamic law in the Indonesian context. Using a qualitative case study design and netnographic methods, this research analyzes digital fatwa content, the performance of religious authority by online preachers, and audience interactions on TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram. The findings reveal a shift from institution-based authority, grounded in scholarly credentials and collective deliberation, toward digital authority that derives legitimacy from symbolic capital, emotional appeal, and algorithmic visibility. This transformation contributes to epistemic fragmentation, as simplified and viral legal opinions frequently overshadow methodologically grounded fatwas issued by formal religious institutions. The study concludes that strengthening digital religious literacy, improving institutional communication, and applying a maqāṣid-based evaluative framework are essential to ensure that Islamic legal guidance in digital spaces remains credible, ethical, and socially beneficial.
Menimbang Kenusantaraan Tafsir Al-Hikmah: Lokalitas, Orientasi Pembaca, dan Aktualisasi Pesan Al-Qur’an Farid, Deden Maskur; Nawawi, Abd. Muid; Zuhri, Saifuddin
Empiricism Journal Vol. 7 No. 3: September 2026
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat (LITPAM)

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36312/ej.v7i3.6684

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Penelitian ini bertujuan menguji dasar kenusantaraan Al-Hikmah: Tafsir Kontemporer Juz ‘Amma dan Al-Hikmah: Tafsir Kontemporer Juz 29 karya Aam Amiruddin serta merumuskan dimensi analitis untuk membacanya. Persoalan penelitian berangkat dari kecenderungan mengidentifikasi Tafsir Nusantara melalui asal geografis mufasir, bahasa, atau tempat penerbitan tanpa menjelaskan bagaimana lokalitas bekerja dalam produksi dan penyampaian makna. Penelitian ini merupakan studi kepustakaan dengan analisis isi kualitatif terhadap pengantar kedua jilid dan delapan surah yang dipilih secara purposif berdasarkan variasi medan argumentasi: al-Mulk, al-Mutaffifin, al-‘Adiyat, Quraisy, al-Nasr, al-Lahab, al-Ikhlas, dan al-Falaq. Analisis menggunakan empat dimensi analitis, yaitu ekologi produksi, orientasi pembaca, mediasi tradisi transregional dalam ekologi pembaca Indonesia, dan horizon aktualisasi. Keutuhan argumentasi keterlacakan hubungan teks, sumber, prinsip, dan aplikasi digunakan sebagai kriteria kontrol lintas-dimensi. Hasil analisis mengindikasikan bahwa kenusantaraan Al-Hikmah bersifat relasional. Lokalitas tampak melalui ekologi dakwah, pendidikan, penerbitan, dan komunitas pengetahuan Indonesia; konstruksi pembaca Muslim berbahasa Indonesia melalui bahasa komunikatif, penjelasan istilah, ilustrasi, dan orientasi pembinaan; serta cara sumber tradisional dimediasi untuk menjembatani otoritas wahyu dengan kebutuhan pembaca. Aktualisasi bergerak dari makna dasar menuju prinsip dan penerapan pada integritas, kerja, keluarga, komunikasi, tauhid, relasi sosial, dan kualitas amal. Temuan ini mengusulkan empat dimensi analitis, bukan indikator yang telah tervalidasi secara universal, dan menempatkan Al-Hikmah sebagai salah satu konfigurasi tafsir populer Nusantara kontemporer. Reflections on the Archipelagic Nature of the Al-Hikmah Exegesis: Locality, Reader Orientation, and the Actualization of the Qur’an’s Message Abstract This study aims to examine the Nusantara character of Aam Amiruddin’s Al-Hikmah: Contemporary Interpretation of Juz ‘Amma and Al-Hikmah: Contemporary Interpretation of Juz 29 and to formulate analytical dimensions for assessing it. The problem arises from the tendency to identify Nusantara Qur’anic exegesis through the interpreter’s geographical origin, language, or place of publication without explaining how locality operates in the production and communication of meaning. This library-based qualitative study applies content analysis to the introductions of both volumes and eight purposively selected surahs: al-Mulk, al-Mutaffifin, al-‘Adiyat, Quraisy, al-Nasr, al-Lahab, al-Ikhlas, and al-Falaq. The analysis uses four dimensions: production ecology, reader orientation, mediation of transregional exegetical tradition within an Indonesian reader ecology, and the horizon of actualization. Argumentative integrity the traceable relation among text, sources, principles, and applications is treated as a cross-dimensional control criterion. The findings indicate that Al-Hikmah’s Nusantara character is relational. Locality appears through Indonesian preaching, education, publishing, and knowledge networks; through the construction of Indonesian Muslim readers by communicative language, explanation, illustration, and formative orientation; and through the mediation of inherited exegetical sources for contemporary readers. Actualization moves from textual meaning to ethical principles and applications concerning integrity, work, family, communication, monotheism, social relations, and quality of action. The study therefore proposes four analytical dimensions rather than universally validated indicators and positions Al-Hikmah as one contemporary national-popular configuration of Nusantara Qur’anic exegesis.
Co-Authors A. Muammar Alawi Adinda Nada’ul F N Adlan Nawawi, Muhammad AGENG Ageng Widodo, Saifuddin Zuhri Alfi, Imam Alva, Adyaksa Amananda, Irvia Angellia, Tiara Febri Anselmo Rajagukguk, Gilbert Aris Munandar Asvi Nurjannah, Dinar Asyhabuddin Athoul Maula Arrohima Aurellia Yasmin Azzahra, Kevin Awaliah*, Nurul Rizki Ayubi, Rehan Zufar Bambang Ismaya Cholid Fadil Dahlan, Muammar Danang Purwanto Dewi, Mutiara Shinta Diah Arum Titah Pujangkara DR. CATUR MSI SURATNOAJI Dwihandoko, Toto Heru Dzaki Prasetya, Ilham EE Junaedi Sastradiharja Eka Putra, Guntur Eko Sulistiyono, Eko Emmy Hamidah Emmy Hamidah Faizah , Farah Farid, Deden Maskur Felan Rhesnandia Satgas Putra Fernanda, Arvin Firmansyah, Ananda Rizqi Fitriyani Fitriyani Friska A. Utari Futihatin, Milda Habibullah, Kabir Al Fadly Hairani Hairani Hamidah , Emmy Hanjani, Sofiani Hertini, Etty Sri Hidayaturrohmah, Ari Idum Satia Santi Idum Satia Santi Ikhsan Joupy G Z Mambu Kamila, Adysta Najwa Sabrina Haya Karlina Amini, Nanda Alya Kasih, Rahmatullah Annafi Titian Kinanti, Innocentia Ade Lestari, Riska Ayu Malik, Olsa Marta Siti Maharani Riskarna Putr, Annisa Marta Siti Maharani Riskarna Putr Marzuki, Arif Maudin, Slamet Michael, Ivan Chris Muhammad Nasir Muhammad Syaifudin Afandi Munzalan, A. Anzilna Nabila F. Salma Nawawi, Abd Muid Nawawi, Abd. Muid Nugraini Dewi Puspitasari Nurfiansyah, Muhammad Rafli Nurhadi NURHADI Nurochman bin Sayyid Pingky Sitianingrum Pratama, Arrafi Bagus Pratama, Rizki Yoga Pratiwi, Eka Asa Setyaning Pratiwi, Karina Risma Pudyastuti, Septina Galih Rahayu Rahayu Rahma, Achmad Dicky Arief Nur Sakdiah, Sela Halimatus Salwa, Deswanti Saputra, Juan Danny Saragih, Muhamad Nasrun Sari, Vina Budiarti Mustika Setiawan, Zunan Shunhaji, Akhmad Sirait, Evi Suci, Idea Mutiara Sudirman Sumardi . Sumerli A, Chevy Herli Tantri P. H. Handulusih Uswatun Hasanah Ventilanova, Vinsensia Virya, Ariesta Widagdo, Djoko Widiarti, Endang Retno Yani Prabowo Yosafat Hermawan Trinugraha, Yosafat Hermawan Yudha, Nabeel Yudhoyono, Adele Rahmad Yuniamanda, Fahreza Zainal Abidin Zamardha, Meidita Helvy Rosa