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Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses
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Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses merupakan jurnal yang berada di bawah naungan Prodi Pascasarjana Aqidah dan Filsafat Islam, Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Pemikiran Islam, Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga. Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses didesain untuk mewadahi dan mendialogkan karya ilmiah para peneliti, dosen, mahasiswa dan lain-lain dalam bidang studi: Filsafat Islam, al-Qur'an dan Hadis, dan Studi Agama dan Resolusi Konflik, baik dalam ranah perdebatan teoritis, maupun hasil penelitian (pustaka dan lapangan). Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses terbit dua kali dalam satu tahun, yakni pada bulan Mei dan November.
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From Philosophical Reinterpretation to Operational Unity: A Mixed-Methods, International Lunar Date Line–Anchored Framework for a Pre-Calculated Global Hijri Calendar (Imkān al-Ruʾyah) Bin Abdul Aziz, Abdul Halim; Roswantoro, Alim
Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025)
Publisher : UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/lijid.v8i1.6535

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This study examines whether—and how—a pre-calculated, single, uniform Hijri calendar can be justified from Qur’an and Hadith and operationalized with established astronomical rules. It addresses persistent disunity arising from fragmented practices in a highly interconnected “global village.” A mixed-methods design integrates: (i) a normative–conceptual analysis via Khaled Abou El Fadl’s negotiative method (text–author–reader) to derive scriptural bounds (twelve lunar months without intercalation; calculability; 29/30-day months; hilal as civil mīqāt; semantic range of ra’ā); and (ii) a computational–astronomical evaluation of a two-condition global rule anchored in the International Lunar Date Line (ILDL): S1—global conjunction occurs before local sunset along the IDL (~180°E; ±20° lat), and S2—an imkān al-ru’yah threshold is met on a 60°W test line (±20°; prototype 0.52% illumination). Topocentric ephemerides with standard parallax/refractive corrections (UTC, ΔT) are used, with ~500-year robustness checks and comparisons to regional criteria (e.g., MABIMS). Scriptural analysis legitimizes the use of information/calculation for dating while respecting Sunnah. The two-condition scheme prevents pre-conjunction starts (S1) and ensures expected visibility on the same day (S2). Simulations over ~500 years converge to the lunar synodic mean (~29.53 days) and align with the concept of ḥukmī ru’yah and Istanbul 2016 recommendations. Implementation mapping shows regional variation is historically instrumental; an IDL-anchored global maṭla‘ is operationally coherent. The study unifies a scripturally anchored rationale with ILDL-based imkān into a testable, auditable global rule and a realistic pathway for majority/minority contexts. Adoption of the two-condition rule, supported by a cross-national astronomy–fiqh clearing house and multi-year calendars, can synchronize worship dates and public services. Education systems benefit through stable academic calendars, assessment schedules, and digital platform integration across jurisdictions.
Weeping Toughs and Pretty Militants: Living Islam and Negotiating Gender in a Muslim Militia (Banser) Lukens-Bull, Ronald
Living Islam: Journal of Islamic Discourses Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/lijid.v8i1.6730

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This paper explores the intersection of gender, religion, and militarism within Banser, the paramilitary wing of GP Ansor, affiliated with Nahdlatul Ulama—the world’s largest Muslim organization. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, it examines how masculinity and femininity are negotiated in this male-dominated but increasingly gender-diverse organization. Through a ritual analysis of training camps and ceremonies, the paper unpacks emotional expression, moral formation, and the performance of Islamic piety in ways that challenge both normative gender roles and essentialist conceptions of Islam. Building on Talal Asad’s notion of Islam as a discursive tradition, the study develops a “linguistic model” to conceptualize Islamic variation as analogous to dialects—local articulations of a shared religious grammar. This model allows for an analysis of Javanese Islam as one such dialect, shaped by mysticism, hierarchy, and local understandings of gender. The paper also traces how militarized masculinity, inherited from Indonesia’s nationalist and New Order legacies, intersects with traditional and Islamic ideals, producing hybrid forms of moral militarism. Finally, it examines how female participation—through structures like Denwatser (Detasment Wanita Banser) and Garfa (Garuda Fatayat)—both challenges and is contained by existing gender hierarchies. Banser thus emerges as a site where lived Islam is actively negotiated through embodied practice, emotional intensity, and the disciplining of gendered selves. This study contributes to the anthropology of Islam by offering a grounded, theoretically rich account of how Islam is lived and contested in contemporary Indonesia.