JOURNAL OF INDONESIAN ISLAM
Vol 13, No 2 (2019)

THE MUHAMMADIYAH CRITICISM AGAINST MAWLID TRADITION OVER CENTURIES

Muhammad As'ad (Hasyim Asy'
ari University, Jombang - Indonesia and Radboud University, Nijmegen)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Dec 2019

Abstract

This article seeks to find the change of the stand of the Muhammadiyah on the practice of the mawlid celebration. It will observe through the publication of the Muhammadiyah especially its monthly magazine of Suara Muhammadiyah. In addition, this paper will also use some opinions of the early scholars of the Muhammadiyah in the same topic. To analyze the change, this paper will use the proposed analysis of Talal Asad of discursive tradition. In the conclusion, the paper determines that the change of the stand of the Muhammadiyah on the mawlid is influenced by several factors especially the dominant political and power relations in specific time and place which determine the discourse of the mawlid criticism of the Muhammadiyah.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

jiis

Publisher

Subject

Religion Social Sciences

Description

The Journal of Indonesian Islam (printed ISSN 1978-6301 and online ISSN 2355-6994) is a refereed academic journal published biannually by the Post­gra­duate Program (PPs) and the Institute for the Study of Religion and Society (LSAS), the State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Sunan Ampel ...