Studia Islamika
STUDIA ISLAMIKA (ISSN 0215-0492) is an international journal published by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM), Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia (STT DEPPEN No. 129/SK/DITJEN/PPG/STT/1976). Focus The journal aims to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the history and contemporary developments of Islam in Indonesia and Southeast Asia through the publication of scholarly articles and book reviews. Scope STUDIA ISLAMIKA specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic studies in general. The journal is intended to communicate original research and current scholarly discussions on the subject. Contributions from scholars in related disciplines are warmly welcomed.
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Forbidden Visibility: Queer Activism, Shari‘a Sphere and Politics of Sexuality in Aceh
Ichwan, Moch. Nur
Studia Islamika Vol. 28 No. 2 (2021): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v28i2.15030
This article aims to explain why organized queer activism emerged in Aceh, but could endure only in about six years (from 2008 to 2014). It is argued that this has mainly caused by massive expansion of ‘shari‘a spheres’ since 2001 supported by national and local government and parliament legal-political back up and societal religio-cultural forces on the one hand, and weak nature of the queer movements as counterpublics, characterized with the inadequate resources mobilization, especially in leadership and in getting support from its social movement communities during the crises on the other hand. Shari‘a, which is heteronormative, have been used as discursive and embodied disciplinary power of sexuality for normalizing and excluding the queer (including lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender/LGBT). Their organized visibility triggered the issuance of the Qanun Jinayah in 2014, which includes punishment for same-sex activities. It caused them to dissolve their own queer organizations.
Trusting in God: Religious Inscriptions on Malay Seals
Gallop, Annabel Teh
Studia Islamika Vol. 28 No. 1 (2021): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v28i1.15075
Malay seals – which can be defined as seals from Southeast Asia with inscriptions in Arabic script – date from the 16th to the 20th centuries, and originate from all parts of Nusantara. The inscriptions on Malay seals serve to identify the seal owner through his (or her) name or title, often accompanied by a pedigree, date, and place name. About one-third of all Malay seals also include a religious legend, usually in the form of a pious expression, a supplication to God addressed by His Beautiful Names (al-asmā’ al-ḥusná), or a quotation from the Qur’an. This article demonstrates a striking degree of uniformity in the religious expressions found in Malay seals from all over the archipelago. Over half of these can be characterized as variations on a theme of al-wāthiq billāh, ‘he who trusts in God’, but at the same time, there are also distinctive regional associations in different states in the archipelago with certain preferred phrases.
Al-Tawatturāt bayn al-Sunnah wa al-Shī'ah fī Maluku al-Shamālīyah: Durūs min al-Māḍī
Nurdin, Muhammad Amin;
Sahrasad, Herdi;
Alhadar, Smith
Studia Islamika Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v27i1.15076
This article explains the conflict between the majority of Sunni Muslims and the minority Shia in Ternate from 2012 until 2018. At the start, the Sunni Muslims in Ternate complained about the existence of a Shia sect community of around dozens of people in Jerbes and Marikrubu villages of North Ternate regency which has caused unrest for the community. Concerned with the spread of this so-called heresy, on January 25, 2012, the Sunni Muslim community carried out the expulsion of the Shiite settlers in the village. Shia's followers from Jerbes village were secured by the security forces to avoid undesirable happenings. Indeed, this doesn't need to happen if both Sunni and Shia Muslims in Ternate realized that they have local wisdom and legacy of traditional values and virtue, from which Islam and local genius values could put forward a peaceful solution and common platform so that harmony, concord, stability, and peace can be maintained by all parties.
In the Foot Step of Consolidating Ummah: Highlights from the 7th Indonesian Muslim Congress
Garadian, Endi Aulia
Studia Islamika Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v27i1.15093
Indonesia might be considered as "fortunate". In fact every five years, and often to concur one year after the election took place, Indonesian Muslims have a routine assembly called the Indonesian Muslim Congress (Kongres Umat Islam Indonesia, KUII). The Congress has reached the seventh (KUII VII) in 2020, and one of the its main goals is to consolidate Indonesian Muslims. On top of that, acting as a facilitator, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) through this congress also aspires that Muslims in Indonesia to become the finest community (khayra ummah), to realize the unity of the people (tawhidul ummah), to achieve empowerment of the people (taqwiyatul ummah), to mainstream wasathiyah al-Islam (center and moderate Islam) as well as Islam rahmatan lil alamin, and to install religious values as a spirit of devotion to the nation and state. All of these goals are covered under the grand theme of the congress entitled "Strategies for the Struggle of Indonesian Muslims to Achieve Advanced, Fair and Civilized of Indonesia".
Benang Merah dan Jalan Berbeda: Pendidikan Agama Islam di Indonesia dan Malaysia
Darmadi, Dadi
Studia Islamika Vol. 27 No. 1 (2020): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v27i1.15232
Azmil Tayeb. 2018. Islamic Education in Indonesia and Malaysia: Shaping Minds, Saving Souls. New York: Routledge.Many studies have been done to compare the similarities and differences of institutional systems in two or more countries, but not all of them succeed in describing in detail what, how and why the things being studied are the same or different. This very interesting book with a broad scope covers this challenge quite convincingly. Namely, there are common threads in the Islamic education system in Indonesia and Malaysia, but some of these factors are the reasons why the two religious education systems then take different paths: (1) the ideological factors that oversee it, (2) the forms of Islamization that create different responses to the state, and (3) the central government’s control of resources that influence central-regional relations. The author successfully presents a complex but vivid nuance of how Indonesia and Malaysia, which are geographically and culturally close, have eventually displayed different faces of Islamic education.
Commodification of Ḥajj Rituals amongst Banjarese Pilgrims
Raihani, Raihani;
Noor, Irfan;
Supriansyah, Supriansyah
Studia Islamika Vol. 30 No. 1 (2023): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v30i1.15258
This paper is drawn from a larger study of Banjarese experiences in performing ḥajj or pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. This phenomenological study employed in-depth interviews with about 50 informants in two different areas where Banjarese populations are concentrated, i.e. South Kalimantan and Indragiri Hilir. The theme of the commodification of rituals including ojek ḥajar aswad and badal haji emerged from the comprehensive data analysis. In theory, commodification refers to the practice to turn something into a commodity. In the experiences of some Banjarese pilgrims, commodified rituals have the importance of both spiritual enhancement and social pride, even though these practices sometimes involve cheating and manipulation from the side of the service providers. So, not only do ḥajj rituals provide sacred experiences for the pilgrims, but also an opportunity for some to make profits from them even through unethical or illegal conduct.
Al-Sajā’ir wa shabakat al-‘ulamā’ al-Miṣrīyīn fī Nusantara: Dirāsah fī makhṭūṭ “Bāb fī bayan shurb al-dukhān”
Rohmana, Jajang A.
Studia Islamika Vol. 28 No. 1 (2021): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v28i1.15347
This study reveals on fatwas concerning cigarettes in the Archipelago in the 19th century. The primary source is an Arabic manuscript from Kuningan, West Java, digitized by DREAMSEA, entitled “Bāb fī Bayān Ḥukm Shurb al-Dukhān”. It does not only use arguments from sharia, the interpretation of ulama, and health reasons but also refers to myths and conspiracies. This study finds that this manuscript mentions the existence of ḥaram (prohibited) and makrūh (not legally forbidden but discouraged) on cigarettes referring to two Egyptian ulama in the 17th century. Through analyzing fiqh and social history, this philological study discloses the connection between its author with the Egyptian’s ulama networks as a new center for ideas of Islamic civilization aside from Haramayn. Hence, the arguments of the manuscript openly consider many aspects of sharia in responding to such a new tradition (cigarettes) in the Muslim community. This is different from similar manuscripts discussing this kind of fatwa in the 19th century which only judge as haram so that it is considered politically as a form of a critique against the colonial tobacco business policies.
Following the Global Rejection: The Motives of Majelis Ulama Indonesia's Fatwas on Ahmadiyah
Alnizar, Fariz;
Manshur, Fadlil Munawwar;
Ma'ruf, Amir
Studia Islamika Vol. 29 No. 3 (2022): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v29i3.15349
This article examines the motives behind the decisions of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), in 1980 and 2005, to issue fatwas condemning the Ahmadiyah. Using critical discourse analysis, this study reveals MUI’s motives behind its fatwas on the Ahmadiyah by drawing on the text and the context of the issuance of the fatwas. Underpinning MUI’s issuance of its fatwa on the Ahmadiyah Qadiyan in 1980 was the global rejection of the Ahmadiyah, particularly in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, MUI’s fatwa on the Ahmadiyah in 2005 was informed by an increased rejection of the Ahmadiyah in Indonesia, which was based on the Jalsa Salana Ahmadiyah meeting in 2005, in Parung, Bogor. In the fatwa’s dictum, MUI positions itself as the guardian of the Islamic creed. MUI’s choice of wording and language style in its fatwas demonstrates its desire to display its authority as a quasi-non-governmental organization.
The Politics of Syariatisation in Indonesia: MMI and GARIS' Struggle for Islamic Law
Lukito, Ratno
Studia Islamika Vol. 28 No. 2 (2021): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v28i2.15819
This paper addresses the deficiency of the doctrinal approach in Islamic legal studies. There is an emergent need to comprehend Islamic law from the standpoint of its practical aspects: that is, how the law is intended to produce certain results, whether it gives expected results, and whether an identifiable result is consistent with the reason for the law as one might have expected. This paper examines the discourse of legal Islamization from the perspective of its practical aspects, that is, how the idea is developed, campaigned, and impregnated in Muslim societies. A study of the organizations Majlis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI) and Gerakan Reformis Islam (Garis) shows that both groups had different concerns. While MMI focused on the theoretical legal system, Garis was more concerned with the practical realm of law; yet the two are the same in orientation as they are both concerned with how everyday life is regulated for Muslims.
Political Consciousness of Muhammadiyah: Historical Trajectories and Future
Al-Hamdi, Ridho
Studia Islamika Vol. 29 No. 3 (2022): Studia Islamika
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DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v29i3.15866
Muhammadiyah, as Indonesia’s largest Islamic reformist force, has survived for more than a century coping with political challenges. It is irresistible to further investigate its political identity through the inquiry of historical consciousness. This paper examines the formation, structure, and fate of the political consciousness of Muhammadiyah. Formation represents the past, structure indicates the present, and fate denotes the future. The findings demonstrate that the formation commenced from 1912 to 2020, splitting into two gradual phases: individual consciousness (1912-1971) and institutional consciousness (1971-2020). This trajectory has resulted in two structures of political reasoning in Muhammadiyah: scripturalist-rationalist as the dominant school and substantial-pragmatist as the marginalized one. Meanwhile, the politics of Muhammadiyah in the future will no longer involve instituting a political party. Instead, it is establishing centers of excellence to engineer political strategies and preserve actions operated by the “Muhammadiyah Caucus.”