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Al-A'raf: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat
ISSN : 16939867     EISSN : 25275119     DOI : https://dx.doi.org/10.22515/ajpif
AL-ARAF: Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat is highly dedicated as a public space to explore and socialise academic ideas and research findings from the researchers, academics, and practitioners who are concerned with developing and promoting the values of religious moderation and tolerance, with the following but not limited to, six main topics: (1) Islamic Thought; (2) Islamic Philosophy; (3) Islamic Theology; (4) Islam and Politics; (5) Islam and Culture; and (6) Qur’an and Hadith Studies. Taking an expansive view of the subject, the journal brings together all disciplinary perspectives. It publishes peer-reviewed articles on the historical, cultural, social, philosophical, political, anthropological, literary, and other aspects of the subject in all times and places. The journal aims to become one of the leading platforms in the world for new findings and discussions of all the aforementioned fields. Academics from any countries who are interested in these topics are cordially invited to submit their article to Al-A’raf and to use this open-access journal. Novelty and recency of issues are the priority in publishing.
Articles 166 Documents
MULLA SADRA’S INTEGRATIVE EPISTEMOLOGY: REASON, INTUITION, AND REVELATION Moh. Sholeh Baharis; Muh. Syahril Sidik Ibrahim
Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/ajpif.v23i1.12124

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This article examines Mulla Sadra’s integrative epistemology within the framework of Hikmah Muta‘āliyah, focusing on the relation between discursive reason, intuitive witnessing, and revelation. Using conceptual analysis and comparative philosophy, this study analyzes Sadra’s position in relation to the Peripatetic and Illuminationist traditions. The article argues that Sadra does not merely compromise between rational demonstration and intuition, but reconstructs epistemology through an existential model grounded in wujūd, substantial motion, and ʿilm ḥuḍūrī. The novelty of this article lies in reading Sadra’s epistemology as an integrative-existential structure that shifts knowledge from mental representation to presential and transformative knowing. The findings show that burhān provides rational coherence, shuhūd provides direct existential disclosure, and revelation provides the highest orientation of truth. This structure makes Sadra’s epistemology distinct from both Peripatetic representationalism and Illuminationist intuitionism. The article contributes to contemporary Islamic epistemology by showing that, in Sadra’s thought, knowledge is not only conceptual cognition but also existential participation and the transformation of the knowing subject.
GENEALOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION IN THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF TAFSIR: FROM CRITIQUE TO METHODOLOGICAL DEMONSTRATION Syamsul Wathani; Machasin; Ahmad Baidowi
Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/ajpif.v23i1.14226

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This article aims to discuss genealogy as an analytical tool and methodological framework for understanding the history of exegesis. This article poses two research questions: What are the key perspectives and ideas of the genealogical tradition in the study of the history of interpretation exegesis, and how does the genealogical tradition reconstruct the study of the history of exegesis. The analysis is conducted using the deconstructionist approach proposed by Jacques Derrida. This article presents several findings: First, genealogy conceptualizes the historical study of exegesis through the continuity of exegetical forms (genres) and the analysis of the historical configuration of Islam shaped by ideological, theological, discursive, and scholarly conventions; Second, genealogy encompasses five key concepts: the reliance on primary sources of exegesis, the recontextualization and adaptation of exegesis, exegetical quotations, exegetical summaries, and interpretive affinities; Third, these core concepts can function as methodological reconstruction tools in the historical study of exegesis through four analytical instruments: archaeological analysis, philological analysis, historical criticism, and ideological criticism. Genealogy provides an approach to the historical study of exegesis by emphasizing an integrative analysis that connects exegetical works with activities beyond them, allowing for an objective understanding of exegesis’s existence and a careful examination of how it produces meaning.
CONSTRUCTING PLURALISM THROUGH MEDIATIZATION: A CONTENT ANALYSIS OF MUHAMMADIYAH’S DIGITAL RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY AND IDENTITY Fathurrahman Kamal; Surwandono Surwandono
Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/ajpif.v23i1.14618

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This study examines Muhammadiyah’s social construction of pluralism through the lens of mediatization theory as developed by Stig Hjarvard. It explores how a modern Islamic organization constructs, negotiates, and sustains religious authority in a rapidly changing public sphere through the systematic production and circulation of religious messages. The study employs qualitative content analysis to examine the construction of pluralism-related messages published on Muhammadiyah’s official website, muhammadiyah.or.id, during the period 2020–2025. The analysis is guided by the Pluralism Agenda-Setting Cluster, which assesses the frequency of news coverage, thematic dimensions, key figures, institutional forums, and discursive objectives embedded in Muhammadiyah’s public communication. The findings reveal that Muhammadiyah’s mediatized discourse on pluralism is not incidental but systematically organized. Its official media platform enables the organization to articulate pluralism productively, consolidate religious authority, and maintain its relevance as a visionary Islamic movement within Indonesia’s plural society. The study concludes that Muhammadiyah’s media platforms and official decrees function as plausibility structures: institutional supports that make a progressive and pluralistic Islamic reality credible, acceptable, and internally meaningful for its members. Through this process, Muhammadiyah performs strategic reality maintenance by anchoring a reformist Islamic identity, strengthening pluralistic commitments, and protecting its community from ideological instability.
ISLAMIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE REVISITED: FROM IDEOLOGICAL AND APOLOGETIC MISREADINGS TO AN EPISTEMOLOGICAL RECONSTRUCTION Mohammad Muslih; Fuad Muhammad Zein
Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/ajpif.v23i1.14691

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This article re-examines the concept of the Islamization of knowledge by positioning it as an epistemological project rather than merely an ideological, revivalist, or apologetic agenda – something that often appears in contemporary academic discourse. The aim here is to reconstruct the conceptual framework of Islamization through an analysis of the philosophical assumptions underlying both modern scientific structure and the Islamic worldview. Methodologically, this study draws on a qualitative approach grounded in conceptual-epistemological analysis to explore the relationship between worldview, epistemology, and the construction of knowledge in Islamic tradition and modernity. This study shows that Islamization cannot be reduced to a normative integration of religion and science. Instead, it has to be understood as an epistemological critique of modern scientific paradigms, and at the same time, as an effort to reconstruct a knowledge framework based on Islamic ontology, epistemology, axiology, and methodology. This study argues that Islamization represents an alternative epistemic model that seeks to rebuild the foundations of scientific knowledge in an integrative and reflective manner. The theoretical contribution of this article lies in repositioning the Islamization of knowledge within the broader framework of global epistemic polarity, both as a critique of knowledge and as a dialogical offer for scientific reconstruction.
COMPARISON AND EVALUATION ON THE WAR ON TERROR: REALISM, LIBERALISM, AND FEMINISM IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY Ahmad Fuad Fanani
Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/ajpif.v23i1.14892

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The emergence of global-network terrorism threats marks a new turn of world politics agenda. The terrorist attack on World Trade Center, New York and the Pentagon, Washington on 9/11/2001 became the iconic event. This event caused significant impacts on the US foreign and defense policies toward the global world. The War on Terror emerged as a new vocabulary in the world politics and shapes the new international security agenda in the Post Cold War era. The War on Terror changed the relations between states, particularly in shaping the alliance and re-alliance between the US and other countries such as in the building of the “coalitions of the willing”. Although terrorism has been placed as the new enemy and threat for national and global security, there is a debate on the definition, legality, and strategies of war on terrorism. It is no doubt, therefore, that the War on Terror is one of the contemporary agendas of world politics. This article will examine and analyze the War on Terror by applying three theoretical traditions of International Relations, namely Realism, Liberalism, and Feminism.
UNEQUAL ETHICAL WORLDS: THE EVERYDAY MANAGEMENT OF PIETY AMONG TABLIGHI WOMEN Annisa Fitri Amaliah
Al-A'raf : Jurnal Pemikiran Islam dan Filsafat Vol. 23 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22515/ajpif.v23i1.15279

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This article examines how women in the Tablighi Jamaat in Bandung navigate piety across two different moral regimes: the intensive ethical spaces of the movement and the more plural moral terrain of everyday life. It focuses on how Tablighi women inhabit religious commitments through the niqab, bodily comportment, voice, and public interaction. Drawing on ethnographic research, including participant observation in masturah gatherings, informal conversations, and interviews with Tablighi women, the article shows that piety is not merely negotiated as a social strategy but lived as an embodied ethical navigation. Masturah represents an intensive ethical space in which women’s bodies are oriented toward discipline, adab, religious attachment, and affective solidarity. Everyday spaces, by contrast, require different bodily and social adjustments. The article argues that Tablighi women’s piety should not be understood as inconsistent, passive submission, or merely tactical negotiation. Rather, piety is a situated ethical practice through which women read, feel, and inhabit different moral demands without abandoning their religious orientation. By foregrounding movement across these moral regimes, the article proposes liminal agency as a way to understand how women sustain pious commitments across unequal moral worlds.