ISLAMIC LEGAL STUDIES IN INDONESIA:SOME NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES

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Lubis, Nur A. Fadhil (2012) ISLAMIC LEGAL STUDIES IN INDONESIA:SOME NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES. In: Conference Proceedings: Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies (AICIS) XII, 5 – 8 November 2012, Surabaya – Indonesia.

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Abstract

Islamic law has been throughout the history Islamic civilization the prime focus and indispensable part of Muslim intellectual endeavors. In this archipelago of Nusantara, the study of Islamic norms has been the important aspect of Islamic education, even of individual and communal life of the Muslims, since the appearance of the adherents of this religion in this region. After the independence, the state institutions of Islamic studies, founded nearly in all central cities throughout the republic in various forms, have played leading and significant roles in forming and improving the lives not only of the Muslim population, but also the nation as a whole. Legal pluralism, to a lesser degree also legal polycentrism, seems to be increasingly adapted and accepted as the main theoretical framework and methodological approach in studying and implementing Islamic law in this biggest Muslim populous country in the world today. In connection with this, there have several trends of changes in the study of Islamic shari’ah and its affiliated disciplines, the most important of which are: from disciplinary to trans-disciplinary approach, from aspectual to holistic coverage, from sectarian attitude to cosmopolitanism, and from deductive logic into more inductive and comprehensive way of reasoning. All these trends have resulted in a certain new hybrid, not only of legal knowledge and products, but also of legal scholars and practitioners. However, islamic legal studies in this country have to face various challenges. The first is to transform it from merely sticks on theoretical suppositions, historical nostalgia and idealistic formulations into practical guidance, realistic solutions and implementable discourses. Secondly, to reorient the object and locus of the studies from Middle Eastern space of the past centuries into local, national and regional, and to a higher degree also global contexts in response to present demands and future needs. Lastly,but not the least, is the concrete action to upgrade all aspects, elements and sectors of Islamic legal studies and all its related factors, including capacity building of the management, faculty and all supporting staffs, curriculum development, methods of teaching-learning, scientific journals, scholarly conventions and stricter merit-based selections of career improvement.