Choirul Fuad Yusuf, Choirul Fuad
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Jakarta: A Secular City (A Study of Neosecularization of the Middle Class Muslim Community in Metropolitan Jakarta) Yusuf, Choirul Fuad
Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage Vol 4, No 2 (2015)
Publisher : Center for Research and Development of Religious Literature and Heritage

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Originally, this paper is a summative work of the writer’s research conducted in 2013-2014, entitled “Neo-sekularisasi: Studi Sekularisasi pada Komunitas  Muslim Kelas Menengah Metropolitan Jakarta” (Neo-secularization: A Study of Secularization at the Middle Class Muslim Community in Metropolitan Jakarta). This study tries to portray of how the role of Islam as a religion has been treated or internalized by its followers, particularly amongst the middle class Muslim in Jakarta as the metropolitan. In other word, the writer wants to explicate of how the middle class Muslim Jakarta internalized and implemented their religious teachings adhered. Using the mixed methodology, the study highlights a numerous conclusions of the findings. First, at the institutional dimension, secularization appeared in the form of religious decline of the religious institution, decline of religious leaders, and religious transformation. Second, at the normative dimension, secularization manifested in the type of desacralisation, disengagement of religion. While at the cognitive dimension, secularization has been being crystallized as religious segmentation and secularism. But, above all, the type, process, and trend of the secularization occurred amongst the middle class of Muslim community is different for the secularization experienced commonly in the West.
The Growth of “Islamic” Radical Books in Indonesia Yusuf, Choirul Fuad
Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage Vol 2, No 2 (2013)
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More recently, at least some decades after the triumph of global communication, thousands of fundamental and radical books—whether politically, religiously or culturally based books—have already rapidly grown in the world-wide. This phenomena, culturally can be seen from the positive spectrum as a new global dynamics of literacy civilization, but on the contrary it also can be considered as any kind of viruses treating the peaceful and harmonious life amongst Muslims community at large. Even so the growth of religious radical books, including Islamic books which are strongly influenced by the growth and distribution of any universal ideologies and philosophical thoughts. In this concern, this article attempts to explicate of how the exclusive books grew up in Indonesia. A survey on “Mapping of the Islamic Books in the Post-Reformation Era in Indonesia, earned out in 2013 showed us, besides there is an increase of the practical books on Islam read by Muslims at large, the exclusive and extreme books have been growing significantly—including the books published by both fundatnental and radical book publication.
A Religious Tolerance and Harmony the Quranic Perspective Yusuf, Choirul Fuad
Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage Vol 1, No 1 (2012)
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The religious tolerance and harmony is something necessary to develop due to the need of global security and peace today. For this purpose, all religions have to be fairly “tolerant” to others. Islam as a revealed religion, whatever its motive, is often perceived and accused as the religion of intolerance and violence. Some political and ideological questions, for example raised to this context: "Can Islamic faith tolerate other faiths, religions or groups?”, What’s actually the Islamic teachings on tolerance and peace or harmony?” and the likes. This article attempts to unpack and elaborate of how far at Qur’an –as the first and primary source of Islam– has a teaching on tolerance and peace. Using a hermeneutical approach the writer understands and analyses what is actually taught by al Quran on the concepts and practices of the tolerance. Based on the analysis, he highlights any conclusions of which al-Qur’an (Islam) teaches the followers to respect and implement the doctrine of tolerance and peace. The Muslim world is imperatively to tolerate others, or respect the differences for strengthening the world security and peaceful life amongst nationwide.
Misinterpretation of Quranic Verses on the “Islamic” Jihad Yusuf, Choirul Fuad
Heritage of Nusantara: International Journal of Religious Literature and Heritage Vol 3, No 1 (2014)
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The word jihad has been understood various way according to motive, objective, paradigm, perspective and the historical background, including political and doctrinal interests of the users. Jihad becomes an equivocal concept resulting the conceptual debates and doctrinal dispute. Response to this condition, it is necessary to redefine and reformulate such concepts seen from the Qur’anic perspective. This study endevours to explicate how Al-Qur’an as the Muslim’s holy book views the jihad as one of fundamental teachings in one side, and of how the Muslims as the followers implement such teachings of jihad in daily life accordingly. The article highlights that, in nature, jihad has any positive and constructive meaning as the struggle for improving the life-quality of the human beings as a whole.