This study examines the debate over salawat recitation in the Mawlid al-Diba’iy as a site of contestation over religious authority and identity formation among traditionalist and reformist Muslims in Indonesia. In addition to assessing the validity of isnad and matn as the basis for establishing legal authority (hujjah...
In Indonesian Islam, as in many Muslim societies, discourses on women have largely been shaped by male scholars, with patriarchal values from medieval traditions dominating classical interpretations. While feminist approaches often critique these established values, this study examines women’s agency through the concep...
This study analyzes the Kudus Minaret in Indonesia as an expression of theological acculturation and examines how contemporary communities interpret its symbolism in relation to social tolerance in Kudus. This study is important because previous research has tended to examine the Kudus Minaret separately through archit...
The characters of kyai and ustad in Indonesian horror films have been associated with the flawless deus ex machina, functioning as the state’s censorship. However, this study argues that this pattern has transformed the religious character from an unquestionable source of moral into a flawed character whose authority m...
The intellectual history of sociology has conventionally been narrated through the emergence of European social theory in the nineteenth century. Such a genealogy, however, risks obscuring earlier forms of systematic inquiry into society developed in other intellectual traditions. Among the most significant of these wa...
This article highlights the central role of hadith methodology in the formation and development of the Hanafi school of Islamic law (fiqh). Within the Muslim intellectual tradition, the scholarly study of hadith—the second primary source of Islamic law after the Quran—has undergone significant historical evolution. The...
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