Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Preface: Toward an intellectual history of modern Indonesian Islam
- 1 Technology, training, and cultural transformation
- 2 The open gate of ijtihād
- 3 An “Indonesian madhhab”
- 4 Sharī ʿa Islam in a Pancasila nation
- 5 New Muslim intellectuals and the “re-actualization” of Islam
- 6 The new ‘ulamā’
- 7 Next generation fiqh?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Preface: Toward an intellectual history of modern Indonesian Islam
- 1 Technology, training, and cultural transformation
- 2 The open gate of ijtihād
- 3 An “Indonesian madhhab”
- 4 Sharī ʿa Islam in a Pancasila nation
- 5 New Muslim intellectuals and the “re-actualization” of Islam
- 6 The new ‘ulamā’
- 7 Next generation fiqh?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Johan Huizinga, Herfsttij der MiddeleeuwenThe preceding pages have introduced the work of a number of Indonesian Muslim thinkers on the conception, formulation, and interpretation of Islamic law, situated within their own complex social, cultural, and political contexts. The material covered has been diverse, involving original local productions that engaged creatively with a broad range of sources that had become available to Indonesian Muslim reformers within the context of epistemological reorientations that accompanied rapid processes of modernization in the Archipelago. The last chapter in particular highlighted aspects of both the extent and the intensity of contemporary conversations about Islamic law and society in Indonesia. These discourses have been shaped by the political and economic circumstances of the post-Suharto period, but they are also informed by a complex history of ideas and exchanges relating to evolving understandings of such issues as innovation, tradition, and justice over the past hundred years.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, a combination of social transformations in patterns of education, new social relationships forged in the context of modern-style voluntary associations, and the introduction of print technology opened up new epistemological horizons and spaces for conversations on Islam and society.
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- Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia , pp. 222 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007