<![CDATA[Abstrak Many Muslim intellectuals insist today that Islam is an integral part of the state. The state in a society committed to Islam, they stress, is by definition an Islamic state since political authorities are bound to Islamic law, which has a direct bearing on constitutional law. This has created confusion about the nature of the Islamic state, and has given rise to apprehension on the part of modernist scholars who feared that remarrying Islam and the state is bound to give birth to theocracy. In general, the relationship between religion and the state, in the past and the present, is not something new. Discurses about the relationship between religion and state in Islam are always stigma. Islam in the modern era has ironically experience regarding the relationship between religion and state. It is often symbolized by accusing and judging others as "kâfir" or "polytheists", as seen in the phenomenon of fundamentalism that leads to radicalism. This phenomenon is threatening the life of the state and the nation. To map the relationship between religion and state in Islam, there are three theories: first the concept of unity of religion and state; second, religion and the state relate symbiotic, which are reciprocally connected and need each other; and third, secular. The following article is trying to parse whether Islam was ordered to establish an Islamic state, or just take the substance of Islamic values.Kata Kunci : Agama, Negara, Islam]]>
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