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Journal : Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization

Is Islam Compatible with Modernity? An Analysis of Modernity as Modern Civilization Sukron Kamil
Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization Vol 3, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/skijic.v3i1.1467

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The relation between Islam and modernity as modern civilization is frequently faced contradiction. The disclaimer of a secular state for instance, leads to the debate by which the articulation of some Muslims who reject it is much more than those who accept it. Another example is humanism such as religious freedom and capitalism, although the disclaimers of these two issues are softer than those who denied the nation-state. However, the conceptual analysis points out that Islam is compatible with modernity as modern civilization. The main reason is that Islam was first emerged as a critic against the previous religion that was not engage the social transformation for the Arab society before Islam. Islam is also encouraged contemporary thought and social reform with the concept of ishlah (reform) and tajdid (renewal). If this case is measured based on the dimension of modernity, it obvious that Islam Islam as a teaching/conceptual frame/mindset in this article does not have conflict with it. Islam is in line with the nation state, secular country or secularism itself, democracy as political system, rationalism and empirical science, and capitalism. This paper is expected to strengthen the Integration of Islam as society with the modernity as modern civilization in the East and West countries.
Religious Harmony in Islamic Concept and its Historic Practices: Freedom of Religion and Pluralism as the Basis Sukron Kamil
Sunan Kalijaga: International Journal of Islamic Civilization Vol 5, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/skijic.v5i1.2174

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Religion, at least in the practice in history, even as the concept understood by some of the adherents has the power of uniting and disuniting. Even so, conceptually as proven in most of its historical practices, harmony in Islam is emphasized both internally among Muslims and between Muslims with the adherents of other religions. Among Muslims, harmony can be seen from the concept of ikhtilâf and ukhuwwah Islâmiyyah, while the harmony with adherents of other religions can be seen from the freedom of religion and pluralism as the basis. From the view of the Qur’an, pluralism or religious diversity is sunnatullah (law of nature); the emphasis in Islam on inter religious dialogs is for the purpose of knowing one another, communicate and cooperation (civic pluralism); and also, the view of theological pluralism, where in Islam there are many Islamic scholars who acknowledge salvation (the possibility of entering heaven) to adherents of other religions. However, keeping in mind that theological pluralism is denied by the majority of Islamic scholars, then inter-religious harmony is more probable to be based on civic pluralism and freedom of religion. In Islam, not only freedom of religion is acknowledged but the freedom to be atheist is also acknowledged as long as it doesn’t create chaos; non-recognition of death penalty for apostates by some scholars; the basis of the syari’a in Islam is the general benefit (public); and the acknowledgement of the same political and economic rights among Muslims and non-Muslims.