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Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat
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Refleksi (ISSN 0215 6253) is a journal published by the Faculty of Ushuluddin Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Jakarta. The Journal specializes in Qur'an and Hadith studies, Islamic Philosophy, and Religious studies, and is intended to communicate original researches and current issues on the subject. This journal welcomes contributions from scholars of related disciplines.
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Kontrol Sosial dan Framing Media Lokal dalam Polemik Pembangunan Masjid MIAH di Bogor Suhaimi; Fauzan Kaifah; Cinta Rahmi
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.49165

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Mass media perform a crucial social control function by monitoring public affairs and shaping public understanding of contentious social issues. Existing studies on religious conflict reporting in Indonesia primarily focus on national media framing, while limited attention has been paid to how local media construct religious legitimacy and social control in intra-Muslim conflicts. This study examines the coverage of the construction of the Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal (MIAH) Mosque in Bogor by two local media outlets, Metropolitan.id and Hariansinarbogor.com, using a qualitative approach based on Teun A. van Dijk's Critical Discourse Analysis at the levels of text, social cognition, and social context. The findings reveal that Metropolitan.id frames the controversy through narratives of social harmony and concerns over Salafi-Wahhabi influence, whereas Hariansinarbogor.com emphasizes constitutional rights, religious freedom, and the legality of mosque construction. These contrasting discourses demonstrate that local media do not merely disseminate information but actively construct competing narratives of religious legitimacy, reproduce symbolic power, and shape public perceptions of Islamic authority. This study contributes to the discourse on religious media framing by demonstrating that social control in local journalism operates through ideological discourse, making local media not only agents of public oversight but also producers of religious legitimacy and arenas for contesting Islamic authority in contemporary Indonesia.
Manaqib al-Nūr al-Burhān and Character Education in Pesantren: A Study of Nahdlatul Ulum Boarding School Kresek Muhamad Fauzi; Rifqi Miftahul Amili
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.50038

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This study aims to describe the implementation of manaqib Syaikh Abdul Qadir al-Jailani in shaping students’ character. It also contributes to pesantren studies by demonstrating how manaqib functions not merely as a ritual practice, but as a lived pedagogical system for the internalization of Sufi-based education. In short, threse religious teachings contain spiritual, moral, and social dimensions─playing a significant role in the holistic formation of students’ character. This research employs a qualitative methodology, utilizing a hermeneutic approach to interpret the meanings and values contained in the manaqib texts, and an ethnographic approach to understand the practice of manaqib within the lived experiences of the students. Through this dual approach, the meaning of manaqib is examined both from the textual dimension and from the direct experiences of its practitioners. The findings reveal that the manaqib ritual at Nahdlatul Ulum Kresek Islamic Boarding School is conducted regularly from the 1st to the 11th of Rabīʿ al-Ākhir. The series of activities includes fasting, zikir, reading Nūr al-Burhānī, and conducting istighāsah together. Through these practices, students are guided to internalize and develop values such as patient (ṣabr), humble (tawaḍḍu’), sincerely (ikhlāṣ), intellectual attentiveness, and social responsibility. The implementation of the manaqib tradition is shown to play a significant role in strengthening the affective and spiritual dimensions of students’ character education, while simultaneously serving as a means of preserving Sufi-oriented religious traditions that constitute a distinctive identity of the pesantren.
Redefining Islamic Authority in Indonesia: The Dialectics of Pesantren and Tajdid in Contemporary Muslim Society Muhammad Sairi; Muria Khusnun Nisa; M. Ridwan Lubis
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.50216

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Existing studies on pesantren and Islamic reform movements have generally examined these traditions separately, while limited attention has been given to their dialogical role in shaping contemporary Islamic authority in Indonesia. This study examines the process of redefining Islamic authority through the interaction between the pesantren tradition and the tajdid movement. Employing qualitative library research with a socio-historical approach, the study analyzes classical and contemporary scholarly works representing both intellectual traditions. The article contributes to the discourse on Islamic authority by positioning pesantren and tajdid as complementary rather than competing traditions. The findings reveal that Islamic authority in Indonesia has evolved through a continuous process of negotiation between tradition and reform. Pesantren preserve scholarly continuity through sanad-based learning, collective deliberation, and contextual adaptation, while the tajdid movement promotes rationalization, purification, and responsiveness to social transformation. Rather than existing in opposition, both traditions contribute to the formation of a dynamic, moderate, and adaptive model of Islamic authority. This study argues that the redefinition of Islamic authority in Indonesia is the result of an ongoing dialogue between traditionalism and reformism, enabling Islamic institutions to respond effectively to contemporary religious, social, and intellectual challenges.
Pesantren and Social Equilibrium: A Structural Functionalist Analysis of Religious Value Clashes Muhammad Izzul Islam An Najmi; Sulalah Sulalah; Helmi Syaifuddin; Masdar Hilmy
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.50453

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This article aims to analyze the relationship between pesantren and surrounding communities by analyzing religious value clashes through the perspective of Talcott Parsons’ structural functionalism. Existing studies on pesantren-community relations have largely focused on educational transformation, cultural adaptation, and religious authority, while limited attention has been given to understanding value conflicts as mechanisms that contribute to social equilibrium. Employing a qualitative case study approach, this research draws on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and document analysis conducted in several pesantren in East Java. The findings reveal that religious value differences emerge in areas such as educational aspirations, gender norms, technological change, and social behavior. However, these differences do not necessarily lead to social disintegration. Instead, pesantren and communities continuously negotiate competing values through dialogue, social participation, and institutional adaptation. Applying Parsons’ AGIL framework, the study demonstrates that pesantren perform adaptation through educational innovation and modernization, goal attainment through moral and religious formation, integration through community engagement and social mediation, and latency through the preservation of Islamic traditions and religious culture. This article argues that religious value clashes should be understood not as signs of dysfunction but as adaptive processes that help maintain social stability and equilibrium. The study contributes to the sociological understanding of religion by reinterpreting structural functionalism within the context of Indonesian Islam and conceptualizing pesantren as adaptive religious institutions capable of balancing tradition and social change.
Beyond the Islamic State and Secularism: Nahdlatul Ulama and the Search for Religious–Nationalist State Model M. Zaki Mubarak; Idris Thaha
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.50709

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This article aims to analyze the dynamics of politico-religious thought within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) concerning the relationship between Islam and the state in Indonesia, with particular reference to the ideas of Wahid Hasyim, Abdurrahman Wahid, and Salahuddin Wahid. Existing studies primarily focus on institutional or ideological debates on Islam and the state, while little attention has been given to the internal intellectual evolution of religion–state thought within Nahdlatul Ulama across generations. Employing a qualitative approach, this study uses an intellectual comparative method by examining key writings, speeches, and the historical contexts shaping the thought of these three figures. The article explores patterns of continuity and changes in NU’s responses to the question of the state foundation within a pluralistic society. The findings reveal that NU’s political thought has evolved historically and is not monolithic; rather, it reflects three major tendencies: shari‘a formalism, religious substantivism supporting pluralist secularism, and religio-nationalism as a synthesis. Wahid Hasyim represents a formalistic orientation that emphasizes the institutionalization of Islamic principles within the state; Abdurrahman Wahid advances a substantive approach that rejects formalization and support pluralist secular state; while Salahuddin Wahid proposes a religio-nationalist formulation that accommodates religious values without establishing them as the formal basis of the state. The study finds that these shifts are shaped by historical and sociological dynamics, including constitutional processes and the flexibility of Sunni fiqh traditions. It concludes that the relationship between religion and the state within NU constitutes a dynamic spectrum, with religio-nationalism emerging as the most adaptive model for reconciling religiosity and pluralism in Indonesia’s democratic context.
Ekoteologi Islam dan Kearifan Agraris Kejawen: Relasi Tuhan, Manusia, dan Alam di Wonosobo Ahmad Taqwin; Maharsi; Moh. Soehada
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.50738

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Previous studies on Islamic ecotheology have predominantly emphasized the normative-doctrinal dimensions of environmental ethics, while the implementation of ecological theology in the lived practices of local Muslim communities, particularly through agrarian rituals and traditional ecological knowledge, remains underexplored. This study addresses that gap by analyzing the relationship between God, humans, and nature in the traditional agricultural practices of the Javanese Islamic (Kejawen) community in Lengkong Village, Wonosobo Regency. Employing a qualitative ethnographic design, data were collected through participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation with farmers and community elders, and were analyzed thematically using NVivo software. The findings reveal that agricultural practices in Lengkong constitute a lived ecotheology in which the Qur’anic concepts of khalifah (vicegerency), amanah (trust), mizan (cosmic balance), and ayat kauniyah (cosmic signs) are articulated not through doctrinal texts but through embodied ritual practice, planting prayers, symbolic offerings (sesaji), incense burning, and cosmologically oriented land management. The study also finds that the traditional Pranata Mangsa agrarian calendar is no longer directly employed due to climate-induced seasonal disruption and agricultural modernization; yet its underlying ecological ethic persists through adaptive negotiation between traditional knowledge and farmers’ empirical experience. This study contributes to contemporary Islamic ecotheological discourse by demonstrating how local agrarian traditions function as a form of environmental ethics rooted in Islamic spirituality and Javanese cosmology, thereby repositioning ecotheology from a normative doctrine toward a practiced, embodied ethic relevant to global debates on indigenous ecological knowledge and climate adaptation.
Al-Ghazali’s Sufism and Ethical Spiritual Leadership in Contemporary Islamic Politics Yusuf Aman; Dede Rosyada; Attabik Luthfi
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.51037

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The crisis of integrity, political corruption, and moral disorientation in contemporary leadership has generated an urgent need for a leadership paradigm that integrates institutional effectiveness with ethical character formation and spiritual consciousness. This study aims to reconstruct Al-Ghazali’s Sufi teachings in Iḥyā’ ‘Ulūm al-Dīn as a conceptual foundation for developing an Ethical–Spiritual Leadership model within the context of contemporary Islamic politics. Employing a qualitative library-based approach, the study utilizes philosophical-hermeneutic inquiry, conceptual textual analysis, and comparative analysis of Al-Ghazali’s works alongside contemporary leadership theories. The findings reveal that central Ghazalian concepts such as ikhlāṣ (sincerity), ‘adl (justice), zuhd (self-restraint), and amānah (trustworthiness) constitute an integrated leadership framework that combines moral, spiritual, and political dimensions. Unlike contemporary leadership paradigms that primarily emphasize organizational effectiveness and social relations, Al-Ghazali’s model places transcendental accountability and self-purification at the core of public decision-making. This study proposes an Ethical–Spiritual Leadership Framework as a synthesis between Ghazalian spirituality and contemporary leadership discourse, demonstrating its relevance to the development of Islamic political ethics amid the challenges of globalization, leadership crises, and moral decline. The study contributes to the advancement of Islamic political ethics and leadership studies by offering a leadership perspective that integrates public governance, character formation, and spiritual responsibility within a coherent conceptual framework.
The Hijrah to Yathrib as a Socio-Political Strategy in the Formation of the Early Islamic Political Order Ridwan Nasution; Abdul Rahman; Muhammad Zein
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.51129

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The Prophet’s migration (Hijrah) to Yathrib is generally understood within a theological framework as an effort to preserve the Islamic mission from the pressures of the Quraysh. While this perspective is important, it tends to overlook the socio-political dimensions underlying the choice of Yathrib as the destination of the migration, rather than other regions in the Arabian Peninsula. This article aims to analyse the Hijrah to Yathrib from a socio-political perspective by positioning it as a strategic decision within the context of social structure, political conflict, and the need for political legitimacy. This study employs a qualitative-descriptive approach based on a literature review of sirah sources, classical Islamic historiography, and modern academic scholarship. The findings indicate that Yathrib possessed a relatively open socio-political character, marked by fragmented power structures, ethnic and religious plurality, and a crisis of local leadership legitimacy, which enabled the emergence of an external authoritative figure such as the Prophet Muhammad. These conditions suggest that the Hijrah was not merely a geographical relocation, but rather a transformative process from a tribal-based society into a political community bound by a shared legal agreement. This article contributes to the enrichment of Hijrah studies by offering an alternative interpretation that frames the migration as an early form of socio-political transformation in Islamic history.
Against Mental Imagery: William Fish on Imagination as Perceptual Experience Rizky Yazid
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.51349

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This paper examines William Fish’s rejection of the mental imagery model in explaining perceptual experience. The mental imagery model, rooted in representationalist frameworks or indirect realism, views experience as the perception of internal images that function as copies of external objects. Conversely, Fish, through the framework of direct realism, rejects the role of internal representations and asserts that perceptual experience involves the direct presence of external objects within its phenomenal structure. This paper argues that whilst Fish’s anti-imagery position successfully critiques the representational model, this framework faces difficulties in explaining the stability of the object of experience, particularly in the case of non-visual experiences such as sound and smell. In such contexts, the object of experience is not always clearly present and directly identifiable, thereby undermining the claim regarding the direct presence of the object in experience. This research is a descriptive-argumentative literature study aimed at analysing texts from a conceptual-philosophical perspective. Consequently, this paper demonstrates that the rejection of the mental imagery model has not yet fully succeeded in providing an adequate explanation of the phenomenal structure of perceptual experience.
Hadith Learning and Salafi Educational Epistemology in Wahdah Islamiyah Makassar Radhie Munadi; Nur Hasti; Abd. Bashir Fatmal; Arifuddin Ahmad
Refleksi: Jurnal Kajian Agama dan Filsafat Vol. 25 No. 1 (2026)
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15408/refleksi.v25.i1.51357

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This study examines the understanding of Hadith within Wahdah Islamiyah and its implications for education and da’wah. Using a qualitative field research approach, data were collected through interviews, observations, and documentation involving organizational leaders, preachers, and educational figures. The study analyzes Wahdah Islamiyah’s methodological orientation, epistemological foundations, and influence on religious learning and preaching activities. The findings show that Wahdah Islamiyah adopts a predominantly textual approach rooted in the manhaj al-salaf, emphasizing adherence to the Qur’an, Sunnah, and interpretations of classical scholars. Hadith is understood through a framework prioritizing textual authenticity, scholarly authority, and methodological discipline. This orientation significantly shapes the organization’s educational and da’wah systems by encouraging structured learning, moral development, and doctrinal consistency. The study also reveals that Wahdah Islamiyah seeks to preserve the continuity of Islamic intellectual tradition, strengthen religious literacy, maintain theological stability, and reinforce orthodox Sunni identity within contemporary Muslim society. Furthermore, this approach functions as an instrument for safeguarding religious understanding from subjective interpretation while reinforcing organizational identity and sustaining the transmission of Islamic teachings across educational institutions contemporarily. “This study contributes to the discourse on Hadith pedagogy by demonstrating how Salafi-oriented organizations institutionalize textual Hadith learning within integrated formal and nonformal educational systems.”

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