Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo
Biographic Data
| ID | 1123085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammad Syifa Amin Widigdo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammad Syifa Amin |
| FAMILY NAME | Widigdo |
| SIGNATURE | WIDIGDO M S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Muhammadiyah University of Yogyakarta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5699-0670 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Muhammad Abduh’s Reformist Thoughts and Their Reception in Indonesian and Malaysian Islamic Reform Movements
This study investigates how Islamic reform and renewal ideas introduced by Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) in Egypt have been transmitted, received, and appropriated in Indonesia and Malaysia. Although some previous studies have been conducted on the transmission of Muhammad Abduh in Southeast Asia, they are mainly historical and lack epistemological analysis. Muhammad Abduh’s ideas and works, which had epistemological roots driving Indonesian and Mal…
Arab-Muslim Intellectual Responses to Modernity
This study aims to unfold the intellectual dynamics within modern Arab thought, particularly during the second phase of the Arab Renaissance, which seeks to overcome civilizational anxiety in dealing with modernity. Rather than outlining the broad spectrum of modern Arab intellectual discourses—ranging from Salafists and liberalists to Marxists—this research focuses on the “epistemological approach” introduced and championed by two modern Morocca…
Freudian analysis of the Prophet Muhammad’s historical life and his early community
This study aims to analyze the life of the Prophet Muhammad through a Freudian analysis. Although Sigmund Freud’s study of Islam is considered inaccurate in portraying Islam as a simplified repetition of Judaism, his psychoanalytic approach is useful to study the historical development of the Prophet’s life and his early community. By closely reading Ibn Ishaq’s Sīrat Rasūl Allāh (The Biography of the Prophet) and related library sources, this st…
“Reason” of political and religious moderation in the book of Ghiyāth al-Umam by al-Juwaynī and its contemporary Southeast Asian context
This article presents a critical reading of the work of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 1085) entitled Ghiyath al-Umam (Ghiyāthī). This reading is necessary to fill in the gaps in the study of the roots and precedents of moderation in the work of Islamic political thought in the medieval period. Al-Juwayni’s political and religious thoughts, when faced with non-ideal political and religious situations, showed a well-founded character of moderatio…
The Art of Logic in Muslim Scholarship
Although the Islamic art of logic (mantiq) has circulated for more than two centuries in Indonesia, the mantiq works and their functions obtain little academic attention. In this regard, the article aims to study how the mantiq works entered and spread in Indonesia and what functions they play in Islamic educational and scholarship settings. This writing employs a qualitative-historical approach by reading critically primary and secondary works o…
Arab-Islamic or Greek Dialectics? Revisiting the Origins and Development of Jadal
This article presents a survey of the development of the theory and practice of jadal (disputation, dialectics) and, more importantly, examines various accounts of jadal development by addressing the issue of its origins and the extent of Greek influence on its formation and advancement. The main argument set out in this article is that dialectical practices in pre-Islamic Arabia, early Islamic tradition and qur’anic discourse, as well as Greek d…
Revelation in the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Traditions
This research investigated one of the foundational notions of religion, i.e., revelation, as presented by Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) in Risālatal-Tawḥīd and Risālatal-Wāridāt, through a comparison with the understanding of revelation in the Catholic tradition, as elucidated by Pope Ratzinger (b. 1927), and in Judaism, as presented by the Jewish scholar B. D. Spinoza (d. 1677). This research closely considered Abduh's works to reveal whether the not…
Philosophical and Religious Justification of Prophecy
This study examines ideas of two scholars from a different philosophical and religious background. Each of them attempts to provide philosophical and religious justifications for the possibility of prophecy. Abu Hāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) views the notion of prophecy from the Islamic philosophical perspective while Maimonides (d. 1204) discusses it from the Jewish tradition. Modern philosophical and religious studies on the concept of prophecy te…
The Traces of the Bhagavad Gita in the Perennial Philosophy-A Critical Study of the Gita's Reception Among the Perennialists
This article studies the reception of the Bhagavad Gita within circles of Perennial Philosophy scholars and examines how the Gita is interpreted to the extent that it influenced their thoughts. Within the Hindu tradition, the Gita is often read from a dualist and/or non-dualist perspective in the context of observing religious teachings and practices. In the hands of Perennial Philosophy scholars, the Gita is read from a different angle. Through …
Aristotelian Dialectic, Medieval Jadal, and Medieval Scholastic Disputation
Although Greek dialectic has an influence on both Christian and Muslim scholarships in terms of structuring the argumentation, this article argues that each employs the dialectic to serve their own purposes. If the Greek dialectic aims to defeat an opponent by showing logical contradictions, Christian scholarship claims to use the dialectic to search for the truth, and Muslim literature employs it to arrive at a level of certainty in knowledge (e…
Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī and Jadal Theory in the Eleventh Century (A critical analysis of Imām al-Ḥaramayn’s al-Kāfīya fi al-jadal)
This study presents a critical navigation and interpretation of the book al-Kāfiya fī al-jadal by Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī (d. 478/1085). In this book, he elucidates foundational thoughts of jadal (dialectic) theory and its application. Despite its importance in the development of jadal in Islamic scholarship and dialectical art, Imām al-Ḥaramayn’s al-Kāfiya unfortunately has never been studied. Existing studies on the art of Islamic disputati…
Nīshāpūrī Scholars in The Formation of Sunnī Scholarship in The Eleventh Century
The role of Nīshāpūrī medieval scholars in the tenth-eleventh century in the formation of Sunnī orthodoxy has been rarely discussed. The existing scholarship focuses primarily on the local history of Nīshāpūr and other parts of eastern Muslim world or emphasizes more on the contribution of Baghdādī scholars in the light of the formation of Sunnī legal schools, which in turn is deemed as Sunnī orthodoxy, than their counterpart in Nīshāpūr and othe…
The Traces of the Bhagavad Gita in the Perennial Philosophy-A Critical Study of the Gita's Reception Among the Perennialists
This article studies the reception of the Bhagavad Gita within circles of Perennial Philosophy scholars and examines how the Gita is interpreted to the extent that it influenced their thoughts. Within the Hindu tradition, the Gita is often read from a dualist and/or non-dualist perspective in the context of observing religious teachings and practices. In the hands of Perennial Philosophy scholars, the Gita is read from a different angle. Through …
Nīshāpūrī Scholars in The Formation of Sunnī Scholarship in The Eleventh Century
The role of Nīshāpūrī medieval scholars in the tenth-eleventh century in the formation of Sunnī orthodoxy has been rarely discussed. The existing scholarship focuses primarily on the local history of Nīshāpūr and other parts of eastern Muslim world or emphasizes more on the contribution of Baghdādī scholars in the light of the formation of Sunnī legal schools, which in turn is deemed as Sunnī orthodoxy, than their counterpart in Nīshāpūr and othe…
Aristotelian Dialectic, Medieval Jadal, and Medieval Scholastic Disputation
Although Greek dialectic has an influence on both Christian and Muslim scholarships in terms of structuring the argumentation, this article argues that each employs the dialectic to serve their own purposes. If the Greek dialectic aims to defeat an opponent by showing logical contradictions, Christian scholarship claims to use the dialectic to search for the truth, and Muslim literature employs it to arrive at a level of certainty in knowledge (e…
Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī and Jadal Theory in the Eleventh Century (A critical analysis of Imām al-Ḥaramayn’s al-Kāfīya fi al-jadal)
This study presents a critical navigation and interpretation of the book al-Kāfiya fī al-jadal by Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī (d. 478/1085). In this book, he elucidates foundational thoughts of jadal (dialectic) theory and its application. Despite its importance in the development of jadal in Islamic scholarship and dialectical art, Imām al-Ḥaramayn’s al-Kāfiya unfortunately has never been studied. Existing studies on the art of Islamic disputati…
Philosophical and Religious Justification of Prophecy
This study examines ideas of two scholars from a different philosophical and religious background. Each of them attempts to provide philosophical and religious justifications for the possibility of prophecy. Abu Hāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111) views the notion of prophecy from the Islamic philosophical perspective while Maimonides (d. 1204) discusses it from the Jewish tradition. Modern philosophical and religious studies on the concept of prophecy te…
The Traces of the Bhagavad Gita in the Perennial Philosophy-A Critical Study of the Gita's Reception Among the Perennialists
This article studies the reception of the Bhagavad Gita within circles of Perennial Philosophy scholars and examines how the Gita is interpreted to the extent that it influenced their thoughts. Within the Hindu tradition, the Gita is often read from a dualist and/or non-dualist perspective in the context of observing religious teachings and practices. In the hands of Perennial Philosophy scholars, the Gita is read from a different angle. Through …
Arab-Islamic or Greek Dialectics? Revisiting the Origins and Development of Jadal
This article presents a survey of the development of the theory and practice of jadal (disputation, dialectics) and, more importantly, examines various accounts of jadal development by addressing the issue of its origins and the extent of Greek influence on its formation and advancement. The main argument set out in this article is that dialectical practices in pre-Islamic Arabia, early Islamic tradition and qur’anic discourse, as well as Greek d…
Revelation in the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Traditions
This research investigated one of the foundational notions of religion, i.e., revelation, as presented by Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905) in Risālatal-Tawḥīd and Risālatal-Wāridāt, through a comparison with the understanding of revelation in the Catholic tradition, as elucidated by Pope Ratzinger (b. 1927), and in Judaism, as presented by the Jewish scholar B. D. Spinoza (d. 1677). This research closely considered Abduh's works to reveal whether the not…
The Art of Logic in Muslim Scholarship
Although the Islamic art of logic (mantiq) has circulated for more than two centuries in Indonesia, the mantiq works and their functions obtain little academic attention. In this regard, the article aims to study how the mantiq works entered and spread in Indonesia and what functions they play in Islamic educational and scholarship settings. This writing employs a qualitative-historical approach by reading critically primary and secondary works o…
“Reason” of political and religious moderation in the book of Ghiyāth al-Umam by al-Juwaynī and its contemporary Southeast Asian context
This article presents a critical reading of the work of Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni (d. 1085) entitled Ghiyath al-Umam (Ghiyāthī). This reading is necessary to fill in the gaps in the study of the roots and precedents of moderation in the work of Islamic political thought in the medieval period. Al-Juwayni’s political and religious thoughts, when faced with non-ideal political and religious situations, showed a well-founded character of moderatio…
Arab-Muslim Intellectual Responses to Modernity
This study aims to unfold the intellectual dynamics within modern Arab thought, particularly during the second phase of the Arab Renaissance, which seeks to overcome civilizational anxiety in dealing with modernity. Rather than outlining the broad spectrum of modern Arab intellectual discourses—ranging from Salafists and liberalists to Marxists—this research focuses on the “epistemological approach” introduced and championed by two modern Morocca…
Freudian analysis of the Prophet Muhammad’s historical life and his early community
This study aims to analyze the life of the Prophet Muhammad through a Freudian analysis. Although Sigmund Freud’s study of Islam is considered inaccurate in portraying Islam as a simplified repetition of Judaism, his psychoanalytic approach is useful to study the historical development of the Prophet’s life and his early community. By closely reading Ibn Ishaq’s Sīrat Rasūl Allāh (The Biography of the Prophet) and related library sources, this st…
Muhammad Abduh’s Reformist Thoughts and Their Reception in Indonesian and Malaysian Islamic Reform Movements
This study investigates how Islamic reform and renewal ideas introduced by Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905) in Egypt have been transmitted, received, and appropriated in Indonesia and Malaysia. Although some previous studies have been conducted on the transmission of Muhammad Abduh in Southeast Asia, they are mainly historical and lack epistemological analysis. Muhammad Abduh’s ideas and works, which had epistemological roots driving Indonesian and Mal…
Philosophy (10 works) · Islam (8 works) · Islamic Studies and History (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · History (5 works)