Political Islam" examines how Islamists, using both violent and peaceful means, are reshaping the region's authoritarian secular political order and redefining Islam's role in the public arena; "Cultural Islam" looks at Egyptian efforts to resist a ubiquitous Western culture by asserting an Islamic identity; "Thinking Islam" reveals how intellectuals are reexamining their theological heritage w…
An increasing amount of research is now coming out on southern Thailand, but Joseph Liow's Islam, Education and Reform in Southern Thailand: Tradition and Transformation, is the first full-length monograph in English to focus on the state of Islamic education in the region today. Liow's study is a detailed introduction to the subject. The research for Liow's Islam, Education and Reform in South…
Kumpulan tulisan ini tidak hanya sekadar kisah tentang orang perorang. Kumpulan biografi ini adalah riwayat hidup para pemangku peran sosial-politik yang strategis. Dengan demikian, kita tidak sekadar berhadapan dengan "apa yang dikerjakan Alcibiades" dan juga bukan hanya pergumulannya dengan nasib serta perjuangannya untuk mencapai cita-cita, tetapi juga struktur kontekstual yang dihadapi oleh…
Buku Zaman Baru Islam Indonesia memuat perbincangan yang telah memancing gejolak rasa dan perdebatan di kalangan umat Islam Indonesia. Melalui karyanya, kedua penulis mendeskripsikan pemikiran dan aksi politik empat sosok intelektual Islam Indonesia terkemuka: Abdurrahman Wahid, M. Amien Rais, Nurcholish Madjid, Jalaluddin Rakhmat.
Buku ini merekonstruksi perjalanan sejarah umat Islam. termasuk di Indonesia, sejak zaman Nabi Muhammad SAW di jazirah Arab pada abad ke-6 Masehi sampai dengan masa modern kontemporer dengan merujuk pada kerangka pembabakan menurut pendekatan sejarah politik.
A World Without Islam takes us on an illuminating journey through history, geopolitics, and religion to investigate whether there is something unique in Islam that breeds violence and conflict. Spanning the rise of Muhammad to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire to the present day, the book analyzes the roots of terrorism, the conflicts in Israel and Chechnya, and the role of Islam in support- i…
Gerakan dan pemikiran Islam kontemporer di Indonesia tidak bisa dilepaskan dari isu dan wacana mengenai hubungan agama dan negara. Sejak akhir dasawarsa 1930-an isu itu mengemuka dan memicu polemik kalangan Islam versus kalangan nasionalis. Puncaknya adalah pertikaian di Majelis Konstituante (1956-59) antara kelompok muslim yang memperjuangkan Islam sebagai dasar negara melawan kelompok nasiona…
This is a single-volume history of Islam. The opening chapters briefly discuss the historical background of the Prophet Muhammad in the 7th century, through the rise of the Islam in 18th through 20th centuries. The final two chapters cover the significant events of the 1980s and 1990s.
Buku ini berisi tentang pemikiran dari Sukarno tentang Islam dan unsur-unsur pembaharuan yang dilakukannya.
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia that has been under the leadership of President Nursultan Naz- arbayev since independence in 1991, has proven that a mostly Muslim nation can be peacefully active on the interna- tional scene. Its leaders have worked fer- vently to bridge the ugly schism that has developed since the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent invasions of Arab and Muslim…