Buku ini mengajukan permasalahan bagaimana komunitas-komunitas yang berbeda-beda tetapi mempunyai hubungan yang erat dalam linguistik dan etnik di nusantara ini menjadi bangsa yang bersatu.
Studi mengenai kurban merupakan salah satu aspek yang terdapat dalam hampir semua agama dan merupakan salah satu cara manusia untuk mengadakan hubungan atau pendekatan dengan Tuhannya. Dalam agama Islam, kurban merupakan sunnah Nabi Ibrahim as. yang diteruskan oleh Nabi Muhammad saw dan diharapkan umatnya untuk melaksanakannya bagi yang sanggup yang berfungsi untuk memberikan makan kepada fakir…
Buku ini membahas mengenai kebahagiaan dalam mengarungi kehidupan, antara lain bagaimana menyelamatkan fitrah seseorang; dan berarti peran keluarga dituntut mendalami keilmuan maupun keteladanan, sekaligus diharapkan mampu mengembangkan potensinya, baik melalui pendidikan formal, non formal, informal termasuk didalamnya terkandung ajaran agamanya.
The ulama in Madura are in an inseparable part of the local social structure. Their strategic position has given them an excellent opportunity to exercise a leaderhip role in the local context. The ulama's niche in the social order of the village and the forces that participate in the process of change can be seen through a study of village religion in a historical context. More specifically, t…
This thesis studies the attitudes of the religous scholars associated with the dayah, the traditional institution of religous learning in Aceh, Indonesia, towards issues of the modernization of Islamic law. In the history of Islamic society in Aceh, these scholars, the ulama'dayah, have shown great initiative in guiding their society as it sought solutions to various problems. Their response wa…
This thesis deals with the history of the Acehnese Islamic empire, focusing on the events leading up to its decline in both its internal stability and its hegemony in the surrounding refions in the second half of the seventeenth century. During the given period (1641-1699) the empire was ruled successively by four female rulers. The thesis deals with the political and economic developments in t…
This thesis deals with Islam and nation formation in Indonesia. It attempts to describe the particular relationships between Islam and the development of the Indonesia nation. It examines the role of Islam in promoting the process of nation formation in Indonesia until the early 1930's. Since the coming of Islam to the Archipelago, the ulama and their writings played a central role in the integ…