Epistemé: Jurnal Pengembangan Ilmu Keislaman
Vol 12 No 2 (2017)

RADICAL ISLAM AND THE DERADICALIZATION STRATEGY: Reconstruction of Abdurrahman Wahid’s Thoughts

Ngainun Naim (Institut Agama Islam Negeri (IAIN) Tulungagung)



Article Info

Publish Date
08 Dec 2017

Abstract

This paper discusses about radical Islam and the strategy of deradicalization according to Abdurrahman Wahid thought. The rapid development of radical Islam in post-New Order Era has emerged the worriedness among people. A number of efforts to discontinue the development of radical have been done; one of the efforts is through the deradicalization strategy. The data presented in this paper originated from the thoughts of Abdurrahman Wahid spread in many books, magazines and internet. The set of the thoughts was then analyzed to observe the perspectives of Abdurrahman Wahid about radical Islam and the of deradicalization strategy. Abdurrahman Wahid viewed that radical Islam has destroyed Islam. Such strategy of deradicalization has presented through the indigenization of Islam, the role of Islamic boarding school, maintaining the tradition and building the interaction and through the Islamic spirituality.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

epis

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

FOCUS Epistemé: Jurnal Pengembangan Ilmu Keislaman aims to strengthen transdisciplinary perspective on issues related to Islam and Muslim societies. The journal is committed to publishing scholarly articles dealing with multiple facets of Islam and Muslim societies with a special aim to expand and ...