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ISLAM NUSANTARA: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Published by Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Indonesia
ISSN : -     EISSN : 27228975     DOI : https://doi.org/10.47776/islamnusantara
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ISLAM NUSANTARA: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture facilitates the publication of article and book reviews on the study of Islam, Muslim culture, society, politics, and history in Southeast Asia (Nusantara) and beyond. It is published twice a year and written in Indonesia, English, and Arabic. It aims to present academic insight into the social and cultural complexity of the Muslim world in Southeast Asia under the frame of dialectic between Islam and local culture or cultural realities. The journal invites scholars and experts working in various disciplines in Islamic studies, humanities, and social sciences. Articles should be original, research-based, unpublished, and not under review for possible publication in other journals. All submitted papers are subject to a review by the editors, editorial board, and blind reviewers.
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Exploring the Reality and Aspirations of Muslims: The divisions of the Umat in Indonesia Kato, Hisanori
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v2i1.102

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Islam in Indonesia has played an important role in socio-political development in its recorded history. However, it is also true that there have been various theological and political debates and disagreements in the umat. The implementation of syari’at Islam is one of the major subjects of such discussions. The emergence of liberal movement in the post-Suharto era also brought about the difference of opinion among Muslims. In other words, the umat has never been united as a single entity in Indonesia. This “divided” umat faces several challenges in the present day in Indonesia. That includes terrorism committed by militant Muslims. In addition to the effort to prevent terrorism, it is equally important to de-radicalise perpetrators of such violent and barbaric acts. Despite some discrepancy in the umat, we see several attempts and cooperation of Muslims to make former terrorists reintegrated in the society. This paper shows how the re-radicalisation programme for former terrorist executed. The author also intends to examine the socio-political development of the umat in modern Indonesia with regard to subjects of syari’at Islam and liberal movement. Based on these examinations, sociological analysis on religion is also presented in the paper.  
Defending Islam Nusantara at the Frontline: Experiment to shape moderatism among Non-structural Nahdliyyin Community Hamdani, Hamdani
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v2i1.103

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Since the promulgation of Islam Nusantara in the 33rd congress of Nahdlatul Ulama, Islamic moderatism has been glorified by its advocates as the religious movement in dealing with social and political changes. This moderate ethos has been inculcated to most Indonesian Muslim by many elites, particularly to nahdliyyin (NU people), to distinguish with the radical and conservative trend of religiosity. This study examines the understanding of wasatiyyah among the youth of nahdliyyin which is organized in a new group called the ‘Pejuang Islam Nusantara’ (PIN, Defenders of Islam Nusantara). Triggered by the criticism and black campaign on Islam Nusantara, this community has a cultural mission to explain and respond the complexity of Islam Nusantara to public both online and offline. This study attempts to capture the worldview of religiosity and political standing point of young generation of nahdliyyin confronting with radical Muslim and Islamist groups by the 2019 presidential election. While the campaign for Islam Nusantara as part of moderatism project of Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) has been challenged by its opponents, the non-structural agents of nahdliyyin takes initiative to strengthen the campaign by cultural events and educative programs. This study focuses on the youth movement in applying and campaigning Islam Nusantara at grass-root level of the changing Indonesian Muslim constellation.
Bahasa dan Kekuasaan dalam Historiografi Islam Marshall G.S. Hodgson Soetomo, Greg
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v2i1.104

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Historian has been preserving a historical unity and continuity as a truth. There is an assumption that history has a ‘constant’. This paper explains and proves otherwise. This writing understands history is in fact filled with various ruptures, differences, and deviations. This uncertainty has taken place when ‘language’ becomes a focus of the study of history. In his L’Archeologie du savoir (1969), Michel Foucault (1926-1984) rejected the preconception of history as unity and continuity. He believed the history as a journey with various ruptures, differences, and irregularities that reveal uncertainty. This reversal has taken place when language as the focus’ study in the history of knowledge. Foucault has called this method as the Archaeology of Knowledge. This is the question which this paper is going to respond: “How does Michel Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge, the analytical philosophy of language, elucidate the diversity within Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s history of Islam?” These three below mentioned questions respectively reflect a three-fold dimension of the diversity in Foucault’s thoughts as explained in his L’Archeologie du savoir (poststructuralism-structuralism, postmodernism, and philosophy of history). First, how does Hodgson, as a structuralist, write the history of Islam by way of developing system of discourses to reveal meaning; at the same time, as a poststructuralist, he reveals incoherence of discourses and its plurality of meanings? Second, how do we understand that the social structure in the history cannot be simply detached from the chains of power as a constitutive dimension of discourse? Third, how do we comprehend, that in every stages of history, they have its distinctive episteme and diversity of thoughts that support the formation of discourses? This research is essentially to explain the three perspectives of Foucault’s philosophy. At the same time, the three approaches in Hodgson’s writing on the history of Islam are also being explored. Both points of convergence and of divergence have become the whole study of this paper.
Keberagaman Semu dan Dilema Minoritas di Kota Banda Aceh Fasya, Teuku Kemal
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v2i1.105

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This study examines the understanding of the concept of diversity (pluralism and multiculturalism) in the city of Banda Aceh; the capital city of Aceh Province which is now more than 800 years old. Can the city be classified as a diversity-friendly city as it is embedded for Pematang Siantar, Manado, Kupang, or Bali, which are among the most diversity friendly regions and are tolerant to other religions and beliefs? This study adopts socio-qualitative with an ethnographic approach to present arguments about the diversity in the city of Banda Aceh. The analytical instrument seeks to empathize with Banda Aceh's value of inductivity, as well as its "particularistic" dimension so that it can be understood emphatically. This article seeks to test the hypothesis of whether or not Banda Aceh City government has sufficiently promoted the culture of minority groups, not only protecting them from violence and granting the right to live and do business. By using observation and in-depth interview techniques, this paper also shows the enigmatic side of minority groups, including the exclusion of “subaltern” groups: the weakest minority and can be called the minority of the minorities. The most apparant of this minority group is the Chinese gets a wider portion of the discussion, compared to other minorities. This is because of the complexity that this community enjoys which shapes their lives with other minority groups and builds the concept of encounters with local communities in Banda Aceh. The diversity values of this city experienced a dynamic change. In the last fifteen years, the diversity was best promoted in the city of Banda Aceh during the governance period of Mawardy Nurdin who served as mayor of Banda Aceh from 2007-2014.
Jawa, Islam dan Nusantara: Memposisikan Agama dalam Keragaman Budaya Sudarmo, Riwanto Tirto
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v2i1.107

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The two books being reviewed are compilation of papers on the belief system and religion that are practiced by diverse local communities in the Indonesian archipelago. The first book concerned with the experience of repression and political persecution by the many local communities after the 1965 event, while the second book describe the adaptation processes of those local communities to islamization which is assumed as completed. Academically, the books is successful in exposing the transformation of religious life of diverse local communities located in different places in Indonesia.
Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: On Islamic and Muslim Scholars Al Qurtuby, Sumanto
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v3i1.118

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This article investigates Indonesian scholars educated in Saudi Arabia, both historically and in contemporary contexts, including those who pursued non-Islamic fields and developed academic careers within Saudi higher education. The study adopts a qualitative approach grounded in historical inquiry and literature-based research. It traces long-standing traditions of scholarly mobility from the Malay–Indonesian world to the Saudi Arabia, particularly the Hijaz, while also mapping the educational networks, career trajectories, and religious orientations of alumni of Saudi Islamic educational institutions. The findings demonstrate that Indonesian Saudi-trained scholars are far from homogeneous. They display considerable diversity in religious orientations, social networks, academic backgrounds, and intellectual commitments. While some are associated with ultra-conservative and militant tendencies, others exhibit more moderate and progressive dispositions. The study further shows that, although the number of Indonesian scholars residing in Saudi Arabia has declined sharply over the past four decades, a new development has emerged: a small but growing group of Indonesian Muslim intellectuals trained in non-Islamic disciplines has begun to secure teaching positions at several Saudi universities. This article contributes to Indonesian Islamic historiography and transnational Islamic studies by foregrounding the plurality and complexity of Saudi-educated Indonesian scholars. It also offers a refined mapping of shifting roles played by these figures in shaping Indonesian Islam, contemporary socio-religious dynamics, and educational developments.
Islam Nusantara and the Challenges of Political Islam in the Contemporary World: Emphasizing the views of Abdurrahman Wahid Esfandiar, Mahmoodreza
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v3i1.147

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This article examines the principal challenges faced by Islam Nusantara in its engagement with political Islam in the contemporary global context. The study aims to analyze the historical formation and intellectual characteristics of three major currents of Islamic thought in Indonesia, traditional Islam, religious reformism, and liberal Islam, and to assess their respective responses to modern political and theological contestations. Methodologically, the research employs a qualitative, historical-analytical approach, combining intellectual history with discourse analysis. It traces the transregional networks linking the Malay-Indonesian archipelago to major Middle Eastern centers such as Mecca, Medina, and Cairo, while examining the internal dynamics of pesantren-based traditionalism and reformist-modernist movements. Particular attention is given to the intellectual influence of modern Muslim thinkers, including Fazlur Rahman, and to the socio-religious thought of Abdurrahman Wahid. The findings demonstrate that Indonesian Islamic reformism emerged through sustained engagement with Middle Eastern reformist discourses, whereas traditional Islam represents a localized synthesis of Shāfiʿī jurisprudence, Ashʿarī theology, and Sufi traditions embedded in the archipelago’s socio-cultural matrix. Liberal Islam further rearticulated Islamic intellectualism in dialogue with modern hermeneutics and democratic values. The study shows that Islam Nusantara offers a mediating framework that reconciles tradition and reform, countering exclusivist strands of political Islam. The article concludes that Islam Nusantara, particularly as articulated in Wahid’s thought, provides a viable normative and cultural paradigm for pluralism, democratic coexistence, and crisis resolution in contemporary Muslim societies.  
Islam Nusantara: The Conceptual Vocabulary of Indonesian Diversity Schäfer , Saskia
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v3i1.163

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This article examines recent debates surrounding Islam Nusantara within contemporary Islamic discourses in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, and assesses the concept’s position as both a descriptive category and a normative agenda. Employing a qualitative approach, the study draws on a literature-based inquiry and discourse analysis of academic narratives as well as public statements that have shaped, criticized, and defended the idea of Islam Nusantara. The analysis yields three main findings. First, although the term Islam Nusantara in its current usage is relatively recent and closely associated with specific intellectual networks within Nahdlatul Ulama, the plurality it invokes is rooted in a much longer historical trajectory. Second, the concept has been transformed into a normative call to renew support for, and pride in, the diversity of Islamic beliefs and practices, particularly within an increasingly competitive landscape in which religion and politics are often positioned as intensely interconnected. Third, Islam Nusantara is constrained by a tendency toward Javanese-centric framing, which may limit the expansion of its meaning and conceptual reach. This study contributes to contemporary scholarship on the history of Islam in Southeast Asia by underscoring the need to reconsider the normative relationship between Islam Nusantara and religious diversity, while also advocating a broader and more inclusive conceptual framework that accommodates historical Islamic experiences beyond Java.
Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Indonesia Susilo, Wahyu
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 2 No. 2 (2021): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
Publisher : Faculty of Islam Nusantara, Nahdlatul Ulama University of Indonesia (Unusia) Jakarta.

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v3i1.214

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This review of Robert F Hefner's book begins with the relevance of this book's cover to the current pros and cons regarding school uniforms and their relation to religion. This book was published when issues and religious symbols strengthened in the electoral process in Indonesia, at least in the 2014 elections and the DKI Regional Head Elections. Even though the proponent of this issue lost, the influence of Islam in the way of life of the state is getting stronger. In historical terms, Islam has always been an important factor in socio-political life since the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia today. Studies on the Dutch East Indies (Indology) to studies on Indonesia (Indonesia studies) always place Islam as a strong variable. Starting from Snouck Hurgonje to Cliford Geertz who was a pioneer in the study of Islam and their work became a reference for subsequent studies. Hefner's edited book contributes to showing the role and influence of Islam in contemporary Indonesia, especially after the reformation. Although not specifically reviewing Islam and Indonesia, all existing analyzes on democracy, law, politics, and socio-cultural aspects related to media, entertainment and ethnicity are closely related to Islam, as well as gender and plural society.
Otoritas Agama dari Akar Rumput Islam Indonesia Alanuari, Alanuari Alan
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 1 (2022): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.47776/islamnusantara.v3i1.277

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Komunitas Islam lokal di Indonesia menjadi kajian penting dari dua buku yang akan dibahas dalam resensi ini. Utamanya, resensi ini akan menguraikan bentuk-bentuk otoritas agama yang keberadaannya tidak dapat dipisahkan dari komunitas muslim tersebut. Buku pertama berjudul “What is Religious Authority? Cultivating Islamic Community in Indonesia” ditulis oleh Ismail Fajrie Alatas. Buku kedua diedit oleh Kathryn M. Robinson, dengan judul “Mosques and Imams; Everyday Islam in Eastern Indonesia.” Kedua buku ini sama-sama menyoroti otoritas agama yang muncul di masyarakat rural dan keduanya berbasis dinamika Islam dan budaya lokal. Dalam hal ini, kepemimpinan Islam di tingkat lokal masih menjadi faktor krusial untuk memahami bagaimana kehidupan beragama. Tidak hanya itu, ditemukan juga di buku ini bahwa otoritas agama diakui keberadaannya ketika mereka mampu menjadi bagian dari solusi persoalan sosial-budaya bahkan politik ummat. Kedua buku ini sekaligus menjadi refleksi penting bagi negara untuk memahami kehidupan beragama dalam hal bagaimana negara tidak hanya selalu merujuk pada pemimpin-pemimpin agama di tingkat pusat namun, tak kalah penting melibatkan otoritas agama di tingkat masyarakat grass root.

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