Pada tataran kajian akademik, masyarakat Muslim Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) agak diabaikan karena studi dan publikasi tentang mereka masih sangat langka. Pada hal mereka sudah menetap di wilayah itu sejak abad ke-16 ketika para saudagar dan misionaris Portugis serta Belanda tiba disana. Para perintis Islam di NTT itu telah tiba disana pada kurun waktu yang sama ketika berbagai komunitas Muslim la…
Penerbitan buku ini telah melalui proses peer review sebagai salah satu upaya penjaminan mutu publikasi ilmiah. Buku ini merupakan intisari hasil penelitian panjang dari para peneliti di Pusat Penelitian Politik LIPI sejak 2013–2018, khususnya mengenai gerakan politik Islam di kawasan Timur Tengah pasca ArabSpring. Buku ini menun-jukkan bagaimana sikap negara-negara di kawasan Timur Te…
Orang Kerinci atau dalam bahasa lokal disebut sebagai Uhang Kincai atau Uhang Kinci adalah mereka yang secara geografis menghuni wilayah Kerinci. Akan tetapi, batasan geografis Kerinci di masa lalu tentulah tidak sama dengan batasan administratif saat ini. Sumber-sumber tradisi lisan menyebutkan bahwa cakupan geografis Kerinci di masa Kesultanan Jambi terdiri dari dua bagian. Pertama disebut s…
Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm explores the emerging ethical theory examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of the trusteeship paradigm as developed by the Moroccan philosopher Taha Abderrahmane (b. 1944). The volume, with contributions in English and Arabic, examines the development of this modern Islamic theory of ethics and how it permeates various disciplines: ph…
Since the rise of the Taliban and Al Qaeda, the traditional Islamic schools known as the madrasa have frequently been portrayed as hotbeds of terrorism. For much longer, the madrasa has been considered by some as a backward and petrified impediment to social progress. However, for an important segment of the poor Muslim populations of Asia, madrasas constitute the only accessible form of educat…
This new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in …
This book discusses the common principles of morality and ethics derived from divinely endowed intuitive reason through the creation of al-fitr' a (nature) and human intellect (al-‘aql). Biomedical topics are presented and ethical issues related to topics such as genetic testing, assisted reproduction and organ transplantation are discussed. Whereas these natural sources are God’s specia…
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the Persian language. Translating Wisdom reconstructs the intellectual processes and exchanges that underlay these translations. Using as a case …
Migration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences can offer a new paradigm of how the religious and the moral can play a significant role in addressing forced migration and displacement Readership: All interested in migr…
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism…