Reflection on Islam in Indonesia related to local and regional culture, art and literature, women and youth, science and technology, globalization and enterpreneurship; papers of Forum Ilmiah Festival Istiqlal II, 1995, discussion forum.
Reflection on Islam in Indonesia related to local and regional culture, art and literature, women and youth, science and technology, globalization and entrepreneurship; papers of Forum Ilmiah Festival Istiqlal II, 1995, discussion forum.
Reflection on Islam in Indonesia related to local and regional culture, art and literature, women and youth, science and technology, globalization and enterpreneurship; papers of Forum Ilmiah Festival Istiqlal II, 1995, discussion forum.
This book provides new information abtout the development of Indonesian Muslims' thinking on issues of theology. This theological thought, especially as reflected in the works of the modernist Muslim thinkers, may be seen as a nascent systematic attempt to draw up the essential beliefs of Islam in Indonesian historical and cultural contexts.
A study that discusses the construction of gender and Islamic identities in literary writing by four prominent Indonesian Muslim women writers: Titis Basino P I, Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Abidah El Kalieqy and Helvy Tiana Rosa.
Reflection on Islam in Indonesia related to local and regional culture, art and literature, women and youth, science and technology, globalization and enterpreneurship; papers of Forum Ilmiah Festival Istiqlal II, 1995, discussion forum.
Reflection on Islam in Indonesia related to local and regional culture, art and literature, women and youth, science and technology, globalization and enterpreneurship; papers of Forum Ilmiah Festival Istiqlal II, 1995, discussion forum.
Using a selection of various articles, this collection presents the prolific writer M. Fethullah Gülen's ideas on modern education, as well as how he has been presented in the media.
Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents—the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it—are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization. These forces have increasingly tested Islam and Islamic civilization for validity, adaptability, and the ability to hold on to the loyalty of Muslims, says Ali A. Allawi in his provocative new book. While the faith has proved resilient in the face of these challenges, other aspects of Islamic civilization have atrophied or died, Allawi contends, and Islamic civilization is now undergoing its last crisis. The book explores how Islamic civilization began to unravel under colonial rule, as its institutions, laws, and economies were often replaced by inadequate modern equivalents. Allawi also examines the backlash expressed through the increasing religiosity of Muslim societies and the spectacular rise of political Islam and its terrorist offshoots. Assessing the status of each of the building blocks of Islamic civilization, the author concludes that Islamic civilization cannot survive without the vital spirituality that underpinned it in the past. He identifies a key set of principles for moving forward, principles that will surprise some and anger others, yet clearly must be considered.
The dissertation aims at reducing this gap in the literature on Islamic cultures, and provides its readers with ways of approaching and understanding Ramadan - and various different Islamic phenomena - in Indonesia and in other parts of the Muslim world. It is argued that we preferably may approach Islam from three different angles, that is, to discuss it from the normative, the written, and the lived perspectives respectively. In this study, thorough attention is thus directed not only to the classical and normative Islamic texts and the lived reality in Java, but also to the popular and contemporary Indonesian literature on Ramadan.