Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies
Vol 15, No 2: December 2019

Modernity and The Islamists Notion of Active Da’wa

Ai Fatimah Nur Fuad (The University of Muhammadiyah Prof. DR.Hamka)



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Publish Date
15 Dec 2019

Abstract

This research examines the the impact of modernity that has been reshaping Muslims’ lives in Muslim societies. It particularly examines various impact of modernity such as colonialism, secularism, liberalism, and Westernisation that led Islamists to worry about the decreasing role that Islam was playing in society and in the state. Their worry about the absence of Islam in the public sphere led the Islamists to become the front line da’wa group, intensively countering the impact of modernisation in the Islamic world. This research is examined through qualitative approach combining observation and review texts. Reviewing the relevant texts and observation to the contemporary da’wa movements and individuals are conducted within both fieldwork and desk work. As the result of this research, I argue that the Islamists are the most ‘active’ Islamic da’wa movement in the modern societies including in Indonesia. Activism is their core da’wa characteristics that routinely calls on Muslims to respond to the impact of Western power. Their da’wa, therefore, is an activist ideology. This research contributes to the contemporary da’wa discourses and movements in the Muslim world. 

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Journal Info

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afkaruna

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Education

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Jurnal Afkaruna is an Indonesian bilingual journal published by the Faculty of Islamic Studies, Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta. The journal publishes empirically grounded and multidisciplinary work on Islam and its related issues, spanning the history, Quranic studies, Exegesis, tradition, ...