Contemporary Thought in the Muslim World by Kersten Carool;

Author:Kersten, Carool;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2019-02-26T16:00:00+00:00

Theorizing Islam and the state in Indonesia

On the back of the Islamic renewal thinking initiated by Nurcholish Madjid and the debates triggered by his writings on secularity, younger Muslim intellectuals have moved discussions of political Islam to a three-point agenda consisting of theological renewal, political-bureaucratic reform and social transformation. Grounding its Islamic valuations in the Qur’anic maxim ‘to propagate virtue and prevent vice’ (amr bi al-ma’ruf wa nahyu ‘an al-munkar) and the verse referring to ‘a fair land and an indulgent Lord’ (baldatun thayyibatun warabbun ghafur), it draws its inspiration from Moeslim Abdurrahman’s theology of Transformative Islam, the notion of ‘Prophetic Social Science’ developed by the historian Kuntowijyo and the creative Qur’an exegesis of Dawam Rahardjo.31 Present-day intellectuals engage in substantialist, rather than legalistic and formalistic, conceptualizations of Islamic political theory. In the estimation of the political scientist Bahtiar Effendy:

In today’s Indonesian political Islam [these injunctions] are no longer articulated in the context of ideological and symbolic subjectivism (that is, Islamic state or Islamic ideology). Instead, they are translated and decoded into several agendas pertinent to the interests of the Indonesian society in general, including a number of broader issues such as democratization, religious and political tolerance, socio-economic egalitarianism, and political participation.32

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