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ISLAM NUSANTARA: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
ISSN : -     EISSN : 27228975     DOI : https://doi.org/10.47776/islamnusantara
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 Articles should be original, research-based, unpublished, and not under review for possible publication in other journals.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.
Articles 139 Documents
Theology of Culture in Muslim Southeast Asia: Engaging Contemporary Challenges Ibrahim, Azhar
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.v3i1.278

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Theology of culture is essentially multi-disciplinary in its foundation where it should be able to appropriate discursive theology, sociology, philosophy, history, psychology etc. Theology of culture cannot be simply an exercise of appropriating the scriptural injunctions. In the history of the dissemination of Islam in this part of this world, the cultural role is instrumental in the process of Islamisation. Understanding the religious life and discourse in this region will not be completed if the realm and significance of culture is being relegated. It is imperative for Muslims in Southeast Asia to develop theology of culture as part of their intellectual and religious discourse, nourishing them with the notion of dialogue, criticality and reconstruction. In more specific term, the need to garner the interest on culture is important where student of religion could engage, like other students of culture, by giving critical religious perspectives, on a domain that affect their life and humanity as a whole. Our cultural and intellectual responses to the predicaments of our time are urgently needed, especially when the political responses always beset by more problems and confusion. To attempt an alternative approach must be recognised and made available. Herein lies the importance of a theology of culture.  
Arkeologi Islam Nusantara: Kebudayaan Materi untuk Kehidupan Masa Kini dan Masa Nanti Akbar, Ali
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.v3i1.279

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Archeology is a science that continues to develop, including the development of more specialized studies such as the Archeology of Islam Nusantara. This paper describes the word and word combinations, namely Archeology, Islam, Nusantara, and Islam Nusantara, and Archeology of Islam Nusantara. As part of archeology, the Archeology of Islam Nusantara also uses objects or data, purposes, and benefits, archaeological theories, and methods. This paper raises issues regarding objects or data, objectives, and benefits, theories and methods specifically used for Archeology of Islam Nusantara. Archeology in its latest development is not only studying objects of the past but also including present day of material culture. With these developments, it is possible to study materials or objects for the benefit of the present and the future.
Rempah dan Kosmopolitanisme Islam: Koneksi Spiritual-Intelektual Palembang, Banten dan Demak dibalik Perdagangan Global Abad XV-XVI Wahyudi, Johan; Suaedy, Ahmad
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.v3i1.283

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Nusantara is known as the world's main supplier of spices since classical times. Various spices such as pepper, nutmeg and cloves are excellent in the international market. Studies on Indonesian spices, as conducted by Wellan, OW Wolters, J.C. Van Leur, Chalwani Michrob to Fahmi Irfani show a map of the important pepper trade in Sumatra and Java. It should be noted that the spice trade network is also related to the spiritual contact between Islam and Hindu-Buddhist teachings or local beliefs. This can be seen traces in Palembang, Banten and Demak. By using the historical method armed with a socio-economic approach, a number of historical explanations can be found. The author uses an explanation model by looking at the function of the port on the coast, its relation to trade routes in the interior. The purpose of writing this article is to present a new study for the historical discourse of Islam Nusantara. As is well known, seas, lakes, rivers and various watery inlets, both dynamic and static, are not a barrier to human interaction in the archipelago. In addition to the commercial aspect, which has been widely reviewed by a number of previous researchers, there is other information that has not been discussed, namely the existence of a spiritual-intellectual network that is connected between one area and another. The author finds a number of interesting facts, such as the emergence of the discourse of Islamic cosmopolitanism which is the result of a dialogue between immigrant and coastal communities. For example, in the case of the establishment of the Palembang Sultanate, Ki Gede ing Suro, a political figure from Demak, built a mosque near the Kutogawang Palace as a locus of Islamic education for the local population. There are findings in the form of the distribution of Ilmu Kebal (similar to Ilmu Pancasona) which was inherited by Arya Penangsang from Jipang Panolan, Central Java, to his descendants who are believed to still exist in the Mount Batu, Komering. This cross-island relationship is an important finding that confirms that in the XV-XVI centuries, cross-island intellectual spiritual contacts have been found in the archipelago. This article is the result of research on cities and intellectual networks in Palembang, Banten and Palembang funded by the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia.
Managing Multicultural Society in Indonesia: with Jakarta as a Show Case Tirtosudarmo, Riwanto
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 2 (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.v3i2.311

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This paper attempts to employ several concepts develop in the west to resolve social and political conflict in a multicultural society. The concept of interculturalism recently proposed as an alternative to the concept of multiculturalism and its related policy considered as a failure will be reviewed to get the perspective to view multicultural problems in Jakarta. In the wake of a recent local election, Jakarta has been rocked by a series of demonstration by Islamic groups against Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) the Jakarta’s mayor, a Chinese-Christian that accused to denigrate Islam in one of his speech. After a heated campaign from both sides, Basuki who run for the second term controversially lost in a small margin to Anis Baswedan, his rival, an Arabic descent and a Muslim. The election was highly contentious as the supporter of Anies aggressively using Islam as the rallying cry to defeat Ahok. The political development that shows the increasing political pressures from the Islamic groups alarmingly polarized the population into sectarian politics and breaking up the previously multi-cultural coexistence. The multi-cultural issues in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia, a Muslim majority country, could provide a good case of problem in governing a culturally diverse country, in the non-Western society. What is the hindrance in employing the Western concept, particularly citizenship, given the different historical trajectory for such an urban multicultural society like Jakarta? The paper would like to contribute into the debate on the problem of multicultural society from the experience of a non-Western country.
Globalization and Islamic Indigenization in Southeast Asian Muslim Communities Hoesterey, James B.
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 2 (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.v3i2.370

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This study identifies the major challenges faced by Islam Nusantara in responding to political Islam in the contemporary world. It also aims to map the relationships and dynamics among three major currents of Islamic thought in Indonesia, traditional Islam, liberal Islam, and religious reformism, while explaining the role of Islam Nusantara in addressing contemporary crises through the intellectual legacy of Abdurrahman Wahid. The study employs a qualitative approach based on library research. Its analysis draws on historical scholarship and Indonesian Islamic thought in order to trace the genealogies and transmission of reformist ideas, the development of liberal Islamic discourse, and the responses articulated within traditionalist Islam. The findings show that Islamic reformism in Indonesia was shaped through the influence of major intellectual centers in the Middle East, including Mecca, Medina, and Cairo. Traditional Islam, by contrast, developed as a local Islamic cultural inheritance that emphasizes continuity of tradition and religious authority. Liberal Islam emerged through engagement with modern Muslim thinkers, including Fazlur Rahman. The study further demonstrates that the convergence between reformism and traditionalism has remained dynamic, involving ongoing negotiation, adaptation, and sustained forms of resistance, all of which have contributed to shaping the configuration of Indonesian Islam in the contemporary landscape. This article contributes to scholarship on the history of Indonesian Islamic thought by affirming Islam Nusantara as a conceptual framework for strengthening pluralism, mitigating the polarization produced by political Islam, and sustaining cultural-intellectual strategies for addressing current socio-religious crises.
Cyber Muslims: Mapping Islamic Digital Media in the Internet Age Khariroh, Riri
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 2 (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.v3i2.375

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This new book is a study of Islam in the digital world, containing a collection of scientific articles written by 16 scholars about the increasingly interesting and complex phenomena of the global Islamic world. Most of the authors teach at various universities in the United States and Canada (North America), and the editor of this volume is Robert Rosehnal, Professor in the Department of Religion Studies and Founding Director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies at Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. This interdisciplinary volume highlights cutting-edge research with unique perspectives and new insights into the evolving Islamic cyber landscape, presenting case studies from multiple geographic and cultural locations, and multiple languages ​​(Arabic, Persian, Indonesian and Spanish). The main sources of the authors, the analysis and interpretation they use is digital multimedia technology. These “virtual texts” include websites, podcasts, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, online magazines and discussion forums, and religious apps. Websites and social media platforms are living “texts” that are constantly evolving, shrinking, changing, and even disappearing, leaving no trace. In this sense, this book needs to be seen as a portrait—or, rather, a screenshot—of the complex and deformed cyber world of Islam at some point in its ongoing evolution. This book explores widely the digital expression of various Muslim communities in cyberspace, or iMuslims, related to the world of imams, clerics, and Sufis, feminists and fashionistas, artists and activists, spiritualists and online influencers. Several articles map the diversity and vibrancy of Islamic digital media against the backdrop of broader social trends in particular hot issues affecting Muslims living in Western countries: racism and Islamophobia, gender dynamics, celebrity culture, identity politics, and fashions of piety, and changing religious practices. The case studies presented in this book cover a wide cultural and geographical area, namely Indonesia, Iran, the Arab Middle East, and North America.
Dayah, Tarekat Alawiyah, dan Kontestasi Praktik Agama di Aceh: Membaca Manuskrip Kaifiat Qulhu Muhammad, Wildan Imaduddin
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
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Kaifiat Qulhu is a manuscript from Dayah Tanoh Abee, located in Seulimeum Aceh Besar, Aceh. The text explains the prayer wheel (wirid) of Q. 112 for self-salvation, parent-salvation and ancestors that referred to tariqa alawiya, especially to Abd Allah b. Alawi al-Haddad (1634-1720). This text was written by Muhammad Ali (d. 1969), eighth generation of Dayah Tanoh Abee, in 1328/1910. Kaifiat Qulhu, which illustrated the construction of religiousity in Tanoh Abee, outlines the character of diversity in Islamic practices and sufi order in Aceh that can be seen in two domains. Firstly, in how the text contains the critique of tahlil tradition to bless the death people that according to the text, it has no argument in hadith. Secondly, in evidence of transmission (ijazah) of tariqa alawiya beside Shattariya that was more popular in Aceh previously. This research finds that the manuscript is construct two things: first, dialectical discourse of tariqa in Aceh and second, the openness of Aceh’s Ulama to the differences.
Relasi Pesantren dan Keraton: Perspektif Antropologi-Sejarah era Kerajaan Demak Bintoro dan Mataram Islam Irawan, Aguk
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 3 No. 2 (2022): Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture
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Penelitian ini mengkaji relasi keraton dan pesantren di Nusantara, khususnya di tanah Jawa. Jenis penelitian adalah penelitian kepustakaan. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah pendekatan historis-antropologis. Teori yang dipakai untuk menganalisa adalah teori Historical-Shift. Temuan dalam penelitian ini adalah bahwa relasi keraton dan pesantren mempunyai pola hubungan yang erat dalam sejarah. Hubungan tersebut bisa dilacak dari sejak munculnya Kesultanan Islam Demak Bintoro yang mewarisi kekuatan Kerajaan Majapahit dalam memegang hegemoni atas Jawa. Berdirinya Kesultanan Demak erat hubungannya dengan amanah para wali dan pengambil alihan pendidikan (Karsan/Dukuh-Puntren) dari Hindu-Majapahit menjadi Pesantren Islam. Pendirian pesantren sendiri memberikan ruang politik kepada Wali Songo dalam rangka mempercepat penyebaran Islam di Jawa. Keadaan yang hampir sama terjadi di era Mataram Islam. Pesantren dimanfaatkan oleh Sultan Agung dan keluarga Keraton sebagai wadah pendidikan Islam dan pusat mencetak kader-kader pendakwah.
Strategies of the Ulama in the Process of Islamization During Colonial Period in Nusantara Amru, Moh Yusni; Alnizar, Fariz; Madjied, M Din
Islam Nusantara: Journal for the Study of Islamic History and Culture Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): 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.v5i1.865

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This research focuses on the cultural strategies played by Indonesian ulama in the process of Islamization in the archipelago (Nusantara) during the colonial period. The cultural strategy built by Indonesian ulama is fundamentally inseparable from the seven elements of culture, namely knowledge, technology, economics, society, language, art, and religion. In this research, not all cultural elements are explained. Only the elements that were strategically directly used by ulama in Nusantara during the colonial period are explained. The method and concept of explanation is to explain the theory related to cultural elements according to experts, then contextualize it with the historical reality of Nusantara, especially the role of ulama in operating cultural elements as an Islamization strategy. Then, continued with relevant analysis, either as a conclusion or positioning it as an inspiration that gives birth to ideas. This research concludes that there are four cultural elements that were intensively played by Indonesian ulama in the Islamization process during the colonial period, namely the language system, political system, economic system, and knowledge system.

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