Jajat Burhanudin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2927612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jajat Burhanudin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jajat |
| FAMILY NAME | Burhanudin |
| SIGNATURE | BURHANUDIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nineteenth-Century Kitāb Jawi Sufi Works in Pattani, Thailand: Mainstreaming Ethical Sufism of Al-Ghazali
The nineteenth century plays a decisive role in the history of Islam in the Malay Archipelago and Southeast Asia. It was the period that witnessed the consolidation of Malay-Islamic knowledge culture, which has impacted Malay religious life until present times. This article seeks to investigate the intellectual process that has led to the popularisation of Ghazalian ethical Sufism in the nineteenth-century Malay world. It presents Shaykh Daud ‘Ab…
‘Ulamā’ and the Formation of Islamic Knowledge: Learning from Two Historical Experiences in Sumatra
This article discusses the Islamic experiences in two coastal areas of Sumatra, the east and the west coasts, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The discussions focus one the ways the difference in the systems of politics created the necessary condition for the rise of two expressions of Islam. The existence of Malay kingdoms in the east coast appeared to be a leading factor in establishment of the kingdom-oriented Islam, diffe…
Hubungan Asia Tenggara–Usmani dalam Arsip Turki
Ismail Hakki Kadi and A.C.S. Peacock (eds.). 2022. Ottoman-Southeast Asia Relations, 2 vols. Leiden and Boston: BrillThe glorification of the Ottoman Empire, often legitimized by specific Muslim groups in Indonesia in the past two decades, has frequently steered toward myth-building rather than the advancement of knowledge through historical sources. This book represents an endeavour to present comprehensive data on the relationship between South…
"Wim van den Doel, "SNOUCK; Biografi ilmuwan Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
The Popularizing of Sunni Doctrine In Southeast Asia: Sifat Dua Puluh in Malay Kitab Jawi of the 19th Century
Sifat dua puluh (twenty attributes of God) is a specific Malay term to convey the doctrine of Sunni tradition in Southeast Asia. Formulated to digest the substance of a renowned book of Yusūf al-Sanūsī, Umm al-Barāhīn, this term began to appear in the 19th century as a leading Islamic theme in the kitab jawi of Malay scholars in Mecca. The scholars translated the book into Malay and expounded its contents in the form of commentaries (sharḥ), a ri…
The Popularizing of Sunni Doctrine in Southeast Asia: Sifat Dua Puluh in Malay Kitab Jawi in the 19th Century
Sifat Dua Puluh (twenty attributes of God) is a specific term of Malay to convey the doctrine of the Sunni school in Southeast Asia. Adapted from a renowned book of Yusuf al-Sanusi, Umm al-Barāhīn, this term began to appear in the 19th century as a leading Islamic theme in the kitab Jawi of Malay scholars in Mecca (Jawa). The scholars translated the book into Malay and expounded its contents in the form of commentaries (sharḥ), a rising style of …
Two Islamic Writing Traditions in Southeast Asia: Kitab Jawi and Kitab Kuning with Reference to the Works of Da’ud al-Fatani dan Nawawi al-Bantani
In reference to the works of two leading ‘ulama of 19th century Southeast Asia, Da’ud al-Fatani and Nawawi al-Bantani, this article discusses the establishment of two Islamic writing traditions, the Malay kitab Jawi and the Arabic kitab which turned to be called more recently as kitab kuning. In spite of the same experiences learning in Mecca, Da’ud al-Fatani wrote his works in Malay, while Nawawi al-Bantani’s kitab were in Arabic. These two writ…
Islamic Book and Islam in Indonesia: A Historical Perspective
Alongside the advance of Islamic reformism in the early twentieth century, one central element to pay attention is the rise of printed media, Islamic book, which enhanced the shaping of the reformist Muslims. Written in Malay with Rumi script, the books with Islamic substance first appeared as part of Islamic reform movement. Nearly all the authors were the leading activists of reformist organizations. This trend continued to develop, leading the…
Islamic Turn in Malay Historiography: Bustān al-Salāṭīn of 17th Century Aceh
Bustān al-Salāṭīn by Nūr al-Dīn al-Ranīrī (d. 1659) is a leading Malay text on Islamic history. Written in the 17th century in Aceh, one chapter of the Bustān was dedicated to the history of Aceh. This paper discusses how the Bustān described the formation of the sultanate, the rulers who were in power, their political behaviour, and the methods of statecraft they tried to establish. The text shared the emerging intellectual discourse in 17th Cen…
Converting Belief, Connecting People: The Kingdoms and the Dynamics of Islamization in Pre-Colonial Archipelago
The pre-colonial Archipelago period of Indonesian history witnessed rapid Islamization. The kingdoms or sultanates served as the centre of emerging Islamic socio-political and cultural dynamics. In this article, the crucial role that the kingdoms played in facilitating Islamization will be examined, giving strong emphasis to how they emerged as hubs for ‘ulamā’ who Islamized the people of the Archipelago. This process created an Islamic network w…
Syaikh Dā’ūd al-Faṭānī dan Hubungan Mekah-Asia Tenggara: Jaringan Intelektual, Transmisi Islam dan Rekonstruksi Sosio-Moral
Francis R. Bradley. 2016. Forging Islamic Power and Place: The Legacy of Shaykh Dā’ūd ‘Abd Allāh al-Faṭānī in Mecca and Southeast Asia. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. 212 pp.This book presents the discussion on Malay Muslim of Patani in southern Thailand today. Taking the social and intellectual life of the father of Patani ‘ulama, Syaikh Dā’ūd ‘Abd Allāh al-Faṭānī (1769-1847), as the main subject of research, this book reveals an importan…
The Triumph of Ruler: Islam and Statecraft in Pre-Colonial Malay-Archipelago
Taking pre-colonial period as the subject of study, this article argues that Islam is part of Malay culture and politics. Islam strongly engaged in the formation of Malay kingdoms, mingled with maritime commerce, and contributed to the formulation of Malay ideas of power and political management. Yet, it should be noted that the important role of Islam is to be explained by the fact that the religion gave emphasis to the idea of omnipotent ruler …
Pasang Surut Hubungan Aceh dan Turki Usmani: Perspektif Sejarah
A. C. S. Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop, eds. 2015. From Anatolia to Aceh: Ottomans, Turks, and Southeast Asia. Oxford: The British Academy by Oxford University Press.This book comprises of some articles with the major contribution to investigating further the relation between the Ottoman in Istanbul and Muslim kingdoms in Southeast Asia. Using the archival sources from the Ottoman period, those articles highlight new information on the Ottoman-S…
Islam dan Kolonialisme: Sayyid Usman dan Islam di Indonesia Masa Penjajahan
Nico J.G. Kaptein, Islam, Colonialism, and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies: A Biography of Sayyid ‘Uthman (1822-1914) , (Leiden & Boston: Brill. 2014), xv + 317 pages. The book reviewed was the published result of long, scholarly research efforts. Nico Kaptein, the writer, presents a biography of Sayyid Uthman, an ‘ālim out of the Hadrami community in nineteenth century Dutch East Indies. The biography is comprehensive in nature. Mo…
Islam dan Kolonialisme: Sayyid Usman dan Islam di Indonesia Masa Penjajahan
Nico J.G. Kaptein, Islam, Colonialism, and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies: A Biography of Sayyid ‘Uthman (1822-1914), (Leiden & Boston: Brill. 2014), xv + 317 pages.The book reviewed was the published result of long, scholarly research efforts. Nico Kaptein, the writer, presents a biography of Sayyid Uthman, an ‘ālim out of the Hadrami community in nineteenth century Dutch East Indies. The biography is comprehensive in nature. More…
The Dutch Colonial Policy on Islam: Reading the Intellectual Journey of Snouck Hurgronje
This article will explore the intellectual journey of Snouck Hurgonje as a hired scholar for the colonial agenda. His life in Mecca and then the Indies, his knowledge on Islam and the Muslims as revealed in the works he produced, and the way it was transformed into the colonial policies, are the main subjects of the discussion. The way Snouck Hurgronje dealt with Muslims on his tour of duty, for example by collaborating with the penghulu, and wor…
Islam dan Negara-Bangsa: Melacak Akar-akar Nasionalisme Indonesia
The Fragmentation of Religious Authority: Islamic Print Media in Early 20th Century Indonesia
Al-Lughah al-Malāyuwīyah wa takwīn al-Islām al-Indūnīsī: Naẓrah tārīkhīyah ijtimā‘īyah
The Malay language is of great importance in understanding Indonesian society and history. As the root of Indonesia’s national language, Bahasa Indonesia, the language has become part and parcel of the social-political and cultural formation of the diverse communities throughout Indonesia. Also, the role of the Malay language in Indonesian nation building proceeded alongside the historical course of Islamic development there. In line with the dev…
History, Authority, and Power: A Case of Religious Violence in Aceh
This article discusses the way Islam transformed into an ideology that potentially used as justification for violence. By analising the case of the murder of Teungku Ayub, leader of a small circle for basic religious learning (pengajian) in Bireun, Aceh, in 2012, the study reveals to the role of Islam as an ideology of mass movement to cleanse deviant tenet (aliran sesat) among the Acehnese. This is because of two reasons. First, the term of the …
Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations
Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Aspiring for Islamic Reform: Southeast Asian Requests for Fatwās in al-Manār
Against the general background of the transmission of Muhammad 'Abduh's ideas about reform to Southeast Asia, as reflected in al-Manār, I examine requests for fatwās relating to affairs in the archipelago. These requests emanated from three groups: Southeast Asian students in the Middle East, Arabs living in Southeast Asia, and indigenous Southeast Asian readers of al-Manār. The fatwās examined here relate to three themes: Islam and modernity, re…
Accelerating the Empowerment of Madrasah
The empowerment of madrasah (Islamic school) is an important agenda item for the Indonesia Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA). As the formal body overseeing madrasah education, MORA has taken many strategic steps to improve the quality of madrasah schooling. These steps have been taken in response to demand for the improvement of madrasah education aiming to produce graduates who can compete with graduates of other institutions, particularly pu…
Penemuan Bangsa Melayu
This work discusses the process of inventing politics by Malay society, with special attention to the debate and contest of three ideological orientations which have emerged within the society since British colonialization. Tese three ideological orientations arae Kerajaan, Kebangsaan, and Islam. They have been involved in the struggle and the debate concerning the attempt to formulate the community and identity of Malay society, the principles o…
Accelerating the Empowerment of Madrasah
The empowerment of madrasah (Islamic school) is an important agenda item for the Indonesia Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA). As the formal body overseeing madrasah education, MORA has taken many strategic steps to improve the quality of madrasah schooling. These steps have been taken in response to demand for the improvement of madrasah education aiming to produce graduates who can compete with graduates of other institutions, particularly pu…
Penemuan Bangsa Melayu
This work discusses the process of inventing politics by Malay society, with special attention to the debate and contest of three ideological orientations which have emerged within the society since British colonialization. Tese three ideological orientations arae Kerajaan, Kebangsaan, and Islam. They have been involved in the struggle and the debate concerning the attempt to formulate the community and identity of Malay society, the principles o…
Peradaban Islam Melayu
"Civilization", the term employed as the main title of the book under review, is of spesific significance to us here. The term has appeared only in recent scholarly works on Southeast Asian Islam, especially those written by oreintalists.This paper is a review of the book Mohd. Taib Osman, (ed.), Islamic Civilization in the Malay World (Kuala Lumpur and Istanbul: Language and Library Board and the Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Cul…
The Fragmentation of Religious Authority: Islamic Print Media in Early 20th Century Indonesia
Aside from the scarcity of historical sources, it is not the intention of this article to determine when the pesantren -or pesantren like institutions, namely surau in West Sumatra and dayah in Aceh- began to exist. Here, the main concern is that in the nineteenth century the pesantrens were established as the educational institutions of Indonesian Muslims. Dutch statistical sources from this period recorded that there were about fifteen thousand…
The Making of Islamic Political Tradition in the Malay World
With regard to the word "Islamic" in the title of this study, "The Making of the Islamic Political Tradition", it might be significant to take the above quotation into consideration. In the Malay tradition, what the people say about themselves seems to support the argument which is revealed in the sentences quoted. One of the most well-known Malay proverbs runs as follows: "to convert to Islam is to become a Malay". This proverb obviously express…
Islam dan Negara-Bangsa: Melacak Akar-akar Nasionalisme Indonesia
In this book, the main focus of discussion is the changes and development in Mulims' way of thinking about their identity. Islam is placed in an important position, with an historio-cultural basis, which is then presented as a strength in the formation of nationalism. The term bilad al-jawah appears as a form of community identity. Bilad al-jawah, also called "the land below wind", was a geographical parameter that referred to the Muslim Archipel…
Wacana Baru Islam-Jawa
This paper is a review of the book M.C. Ricklefs,The Seen and Unseen Worlds in Java: History, Literature and Islam in the Court of Pakubuwana II 1726-1749, (Honolulu: Asian Studies Association of Australian in association with Allen & Unwin and University of Hawaii Press, 1998).As for as the Indonesian studies are concerned, Java has become the most various points of view, concerning the javanese society and culture. The book by M.C Ricklefs, whi…
Religious Violence in Indonesian Muslim Society
Acts of violence in the name of religion have frequently in lndonesia in recent times, a country in zuhich most of its inhabitants are Muslim. Acts of violence are usually a result of efforts, for example, to eradicate sinful acts in society, wipe out shirk (idolatry), and defend God's name. Yet, this phenomenon of violence is indeed aery complex. It appears in a number of forms and involves a large variety of factors.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v13i2.573
Barnāmaj al-Rūḥānīyah al-Islāmīyah wa al-Ḥayat al-Dīnīyah fī al-Madāris al-Thanāwīyah al-‘Āmmah fī Indūnīsīyā
This article tries to portray the development of religious orientation in schools through a thorough investigation of the emergence of ROHIS in senior high schools and perusing its dynamics. After having been introduced in the mid-1980s, ROHIS has attracted many people. In the beginning it merely supported religious activities in schools, but gradually its importance became undeniable. Its significant contributions in endowing students with addit…
Diaspora Hadrami di Nusantara
The development of Hadrami society, or overseas Arab communities in general, in the Indian Ocean countries have attracted some scholars to study in more detail,especially some aspects concerning the way the Hadramis live and cope with various problems they have in their overseas countries. In the Malay-Indonesia state, the Hadrami society have developed as a vital community group having important position for beyond their traditional role as "the…
PPIM Survey: Religious Courts Access and Equity
The importance of religious courts initially rose with the introduction of Marriage Law no. 1, 1974 which mainly aimed to prevent arbitrary divorces, which was viewed to be a common problem among Muslims at the time. The enactment of this law meant that divorces needed to be approved by the religious court, hence acting as a disincentive for men to divorce their wives at the drop of a hat. The impact of this law is evident: the rate of divorce fo…
Mainstreaming Pesantren and Madrasah
PPIM UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, assisted by PUSKADIA-BUMA UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta has conducted a three year project (2004-2007) of mainstreaming pesantrens and madrasahs in Indonesia. The project initiative and execution were the result of cooperation between UIN Jakarta and the Royal Danish Embassy The project was intended to introduce contemporary, democratic civic values (democracy, civil society, religious pluralism, human righ…
Kerajaan-Oriented Islam: The Experience of Pre-Colonial Indonesia
These two texts, al-Mawahib and Taj us-Salatin, further had similarities in terms of both language and their substances. In this paper, al-Mawahib will be discussed in its relation to Taj us-Salatin. But before we come to the discussion, the author will pay attention to several texts which preceded al-Mawahib in creating the initial discourse on Islamic politics. As the author will show below, both al-Mawahib and Taj us-Salatin contributed to sha…
Survey Report: A Portrait of Muslims’ Socio-Religious Attitudes in Java
This report is based on two surveys, a baseline and an impact one, conducted by the PPIM in the framework of gauging the impact of the Islam and Development Program of The Asia Foundation in Jakarta. The first (baseline) survey was carried out in July 2008, just before the program started, while the second one was made after the program had ended in August 2009.Designed to measure the impact of the program, there were two categories of survey res…
Redefining The Roles of Islamic Organizations in the Reformasi Era
Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM) of State University Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, in cooperation with Center for the Study of Society and Culture (PMB) of Indonesian’s Science Foundation (LIPI), and Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS), held a conference on “Redefining the Roles of Islamic Organizations in the Reformasi Era. ”The conference was divi…
Aspiring for Islamic Reform: Southeast Asian Requests for Fatwās in al-Manār
Against the general background of the transmission of Muhammad 'Abduh's ideas about reform to Southeast Asia, as reflected in al-Manār, I examine requests for fatwās relating to affairs in the archipelago. These requests emanated from three groups: Southeast Asian students in the Middle East, Arabs living in Southeast Asia, and indigenous Southeast Asian readers of al-Manār. The fatwās examined here relate to three themes: Islam and modernity, re…
Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations
Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations
SOJOURN is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to the study of social and cultural issues in Southeast Asia. It publishes empirical and theoretical research articles with a view to promoting and disseminating scholarship in and on the region. Areas of special concern include ethnicity, religion, tourism, urbanization, migration, popular culture, social and cultural change, and development. Fields most often represented in the journal are anthrop…
Islam dan Negara-Bangsa: Melacak Akar-akar Nasionalisme Indonesia
The Fragmentation of Religious Authority: Islamic Print Media in Early 20th Century Indonesia
Al-Lughah al-Malāyuwīyah wa takwīn al-Islām al-Indūnīsī: Naẓrah tārīkhīyah ijtimā‘īyah
The Malay language is of great importance in understanding Indonesian society and history. As the root of Indonesia’s national language, Bahasa Indonesia, the language has become part and parcel of the social-political and cultural formation of the diverse communities throughout Indonesia. Also, the role of the Malay language in Indonesian nation building proceeded alongside the historical course of Islamic development there. In line with the dev…
History, Authority, and Power: A Case of Religious Violence in Aceh
This article discusses the way Islam transformed into an ideology that potentially used as justification for violence. By analising the case of the murder of Teungku Ayub, leader of a small circle for basic religious learning (pengajian) in Bireun, Aceh, in 2012, the study reveals to the role of Islam as an ideology of mass movement to cleanse deviant tenet (aliran sesat) among the Acehnese. This is because of two reasons. First, the term of the …
Islam dan Kolonialisme: Sayyid Usman dan Islam di Indonesia Masa Penjajahan
Nico J.G. Kaptein, Islam, Colonialism, and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies: A Biography of Sayyid ‘Uthman (1822-1914) , (Leiden & Boston: Brill. 2014), xv + 317 pages. The book reviewed was the published result of long, scholarly research efforts. Nico Kaptein, the writer, presents a biography of Sayyid Uthman, an ‘ālim out of the Hadrami community in nineteenth century Dutch East Indies. The biography is comprehensive in nature. Mo…
Islam dan Kolonialisme: Sayyid Usman dan Islam di Indonesia Masa Penjajahan
Nico J.G. Kaptein, Islam, Colonialism, and the Modern Age in the Netherlands East Indies: A Biography of Sayyid ‘Uthman (1822-1914), (Leiden & Boston: Brill. 2014), xv + 317 pages.The book reviewed was the published result of long, scholarly research efforts. Nico Kaptein, the writer, presents a biography of Sayyid Uthman, an ‘ālim out of the Hadrami community in nineteenth century Dutch East Indies. The biography is comprehensive in nature. More…
The Dutch Colonial Policy on Islam: Reading the Intellectual Journey of Snouck Hurgronje
This article will explore the intellectual journey of Snouck Hurgonje as a hired scholar for the colonial agenda. His life in Mecca and then the Indies, his knowledge on Islam and the Muslims as revealed in the works he produced, and the way it was transformed into the colonial policies, are the main subjects of the discussion. The way Snouck Hurgronje dealt with Muslims on his tour of duty, for example by collaborating with the penghulu, and wor…
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