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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

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.64540/j0j9k418

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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.