Azyumardi Azra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3430604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Azyumardi Azra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Azyumardi |
| FAMILY NAME | Azra |
| SIGNATURE | AZRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Many Asian nations are experiencing a revival of religion in public and political life
Religion is returning to public and political life in many Asian countries contrary to previously dominant ideas about the inevitable decline of religion through the process of modernisation.Economic development and socio-cultural progress in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and China have brought religion back to the political and socio-cultural spheres.Asia is the only continent where virtually all major world religions today origi…
Transregional Islam in the Malay-Indonesian World: Legacies and New Dynamics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Kesalehan dan Politik: Islam Indonesia
Thomas B. Pepinsky, R. William Liddle, and Saiful Mujani. 2018. Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam. Oxford: Oxford University PressSaiful Mujani, R. William Liddl, and Kuskridho Ambardi. 2018. Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization: Critical Democrats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.This article aims to review two books written by four foremost scholars in the field of political science. In the context of …
Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory
1. Introduction / Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson -- 2. Political modernity and Indonesian Islam : a manifesto / Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson -- 3. Islamic perspectives and the rules of law and constitutionalism / N.A. Fadhil Lubis -- 4. Constitutional values and an Islamic state / Adnan Buyung Nasution -- 5. The ambiguities of the rule of law / Brian Galligan -- 6. Western and Islamic conceptions of the rule of law / Spencer Zifcak -- 7. Demo…
Kontestasi Pemikiran Islam Indonesia Kontemporer
Carool Kersten. 2015. Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values, London: Hurst & Company, pp. 373+xx.Comprehensive studies of contemporary Indonesian Islam are still scarce. Most of the studies on this subject deal with certain aspects of current developments in Indonesian Islam. Kersten’s book is an attempt to present an intellectual history of contemporary Indonesian Islam in six chapters: first, secularism, pluralism and li…
Islamisasi Jawa
Bookreview: M.C. Ricklefs, Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java: A Political, Social, and Religious History, c. 1930 to the Present (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xxi+575 halaman)This work of Ricklefs is the last in a trilogy and follows Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamisation from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries (2006), and Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions c. 1830–1930 (2007). The three works co…
Intelektual Muslim Baru dan Kajian Islam
Book Review: Carool Kersten, Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam, London: Hurst & Company, 2011, xvi+324 pages.This book is a very important contribution to the study of Islam in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, a country with the largest Muslims population in the world. The inclusion of Nucholish Madjid in this work on the intellectual dynamics in the Muslim world has a symbolic significance that cann…
Kartosuwiryo dan NII: Kajian Ulang
Formichi, Kiara, Islam in The Making of The Nation: Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th Century Indonesia. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 282, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2012, xvii, 244 pp. (map), USD 49.00, paper, ISBN 978-90-6718-386-4Chiara Formichi’s book, Islam and the Making of the Nation: Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th Century Indonesia (2012), is the most recent work on Kartosuwiryo …
Varieties of Religious Authority: Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam
The twentieth century was a fascinating period of profound political, social and economic changes in Indonesia. These changes contributed to the diversification of the religious landscape and as a result, religious authority was redistributed over an increasing number of actors. Although many Muslims in Indonesia continued to regard the ulama, the traditional religious scholars, as the principle source of religious guidance, religious authority h…
Indonesian higher education: From public good to privatization
Indonesian higher education plays an important role in the acceleration of modernization in the country. Indonesia began to have higher education only after independence. And since then, the Indonesian government has founded and expanded higher education institutions; up until 2004 there were 81 public universities under Ministry of National Education (MONE) and 59 under Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA). The government provides a large portio…
Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia * by R. Michael Feener
Islamic law in Indonesia—the most populous Muslim nation in the world—is a subject that has been getting increasing attention recently. A number of important works on it in English have come out, the one under review being the latest. Feener's work, no doubt, contributes a great deal to a much better grasp among students of Islamic law of the development of Muslim legal thought in modern or, more precisely, contemporary Indonesia. (The title pref…
The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern 'Ulamā' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Professor Azra's meticulous study, using sources from the Middle East itself, shows how scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were reconstructing the intellectual and socio-moral foundation of Muslim societies
The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern 'Ulamā' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Islamic renewal and reformism is an ongoing process which is commonly thought to have xtarted only in the twentieth century
A Hadhrami Religious Scholar in Indonesia: Sayyid ʿUthmān
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
Outlines of the Strategic Plan UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta: Heading towards becoming a Research University by the Year 2007
What is meant by the term Research University? Essentially, a Research university is a university based upon a research tradition. The implications are broad, being that the university must have the capabilities and facilities to support the strengthening of this research tradition. In realizing these aspirations, there is a need to identify how prepared the university is to begin developments in the areas of academic, financial and administrativ…
Muhammadiyah: A Preliminary Study
This article is a collection of Bibliography reviewer that discuss Muhammadiyah. The following are some of the bibliography were reviewed:A.R. Sukrianta dan Abdul Munir Malkhan, Perkembangan Pemikiran Muhammadiyah dari Masa ke Masa: Menyambut Muktamar ke-41, (Yogyakarta: Dua Dimensi, 1985).A.R. Sukriyanto dan Abdul Munir Mulkhan, Pergumulan Pemikiran dalam Muhammadiyah, (Yogyakarta: Sipress, 1990).Ruslan Abdul Gani. et.al., Cita dan Citra Muhamma…
Islam di “Negeri Bawah Angin” dalam Masa Perdagangan
This article is a review of the book Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680, Volume One: The Lands below the Winds, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1988; Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680, Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1993.Studies of 'The Lands Below the Winds' - a medical Middle Eastern term reffering to Southeast Asia - especially those related to Is…
Ḥadrāmī scholars in the Malay-Indonesian Diaspora: A Preliminary Study of Sayyid ‘Uthmān
The absence of in-depth study of the 'ulama Hadhrami archipelago, especially the period after the 18th century when people Hadhrami emigration reached its peak, is something surprising. Indeed, there are records of the 'ulama certain Hadhrami, but many do not provide adequate information. Note that usually only contains a very brief description and not the whole of the presence and role of 'Hadhrami scholars in the history of Islam in the archipe…
The Indies Chinese and the Sarekat lslam: AnAccount of the Anti-Chinese Riots in ColonialIndonesia
Educational policy towards the native Dutch 19th century has been a lot of encouraging the emergence of the seeds of nationalism (proto-nationalism). This policy allows certain native circles to get the Dutch education. Although the number is very small, the role of native Dutch school graduates is very important. They became the backbone of the national people's attitudes develop bumiputera.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v1i1.865
Guarding the Faith of the Ummah: Religio-Intellectual Journey of Mohammad Rasjidi
Professor Mohammad Rasjidi, no doubt, is one of the Muslim intellectuals and national leaders of Indonesia's most prominent. He is the first Indonesian to obtain a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Cairo University and a Doctorate in Javanese spiritualism from the Sorbonne University, France. No less important, is the Minister of Religious Rasjidi first in the history of independent Indonesia, just as the existence of the Ministry of Religious…
Melacak Pengaruh dan Pergeseran Orientasi Tamatan Kairo
In the last view years there have emerged some new tendencies in studying Muslim societies. One of the most important of these is the study of religio-cultural exchange among the various Muslim societies in the world. There is a little doubt that this kind of study is both interesting and challenging. It involves not only a form of comparative study of the Muslim societies have influenced each other in the course of history.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v2i3…
Nu: Islam Tradisional dan Modernitas di Indonesia
As stated by Abdurrahman Wahid in his introduction, the book under discussion is the first one written in English, not in the Indonesian language, that discusses the Nahdatul Ulama (NU). This is of course very surprising, since the NU is one of the largest Muslim organizations in Indonesia.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v4i4.770
The Transmission of al-Manar's Reformism to the Malay-Indonesian World: The Cases of al-Imam and al-Munir
This journal not only directly influenced the spread of Islamic reformism through its own articles, but most importantly also stimulated the publication of similar journals printed in the Maiay-Indonesian world. This paper is an early attempt to delineate and discuss in a comprehensive manner the transmission of Islamic reformism to the Maiay-Indonesian world by means of journals: primarly al-Imam in Singapore and al-Munir in Padang, West Sumatra…
Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy: Assesing Impacts of Islamic Revivalism during the Soeharto Era
In the last two decades, the Islamic world has witnessed something of an Islamic revival. Indonesian Muslims to a certain extent are likewise affected by the euphoria of Islamic revivalism; and there is much evidence to suggest that Islam, like other religions in Indonesia, is also experiencing a revival. As a result frequently since the end of the 1980s, Muslims have succeeded in influencing the making of government domestic policy for the inter…
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
Many Asian nations are experiencing a revival of religion in public and political life
Religion is returning to public and political life in many Asian countries contrary to previously dominant ideas about the inevitable decline of religion through the process of modernisation.Economic development and socio-cultural progress in countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and China have brought religion back to the political and socio-cultural spheres.Asia is the only continent where virtually all major world religions today origi…
Networks of the Ulama in the Haramayn: Connections in the Indian Ocean Region
The involvement of the ulama of the Indian Ocean region took at least two forms. Firstly, through their travelling or migrating to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina (the Haramayn). The author found that a great number of ulama and students from the Indian Ocean region came to and later settled in the Holy Cities to study and teach. Secondly, students who felt that they possessed sufficient knowledge returned to their place of origin in the Indi…
Outlines of the Strategic Plan UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta: Heading towards becoming a Research University by the Year 2007
What is meant by the term Research University? Essentially, a Research university is a university based upon a research tradition. The implications are broad, being that the university must have the capabilities and facilities to support the strengthening of this research tradition. In realizing these aspirations, there is a need to identify how prepared the university is to begin developments in the areas of academic, financial and administrativ…
Muhammadiyah: A Preliminary Study
This article is a collection of Bibliography reviewer that discuss Muhammadiyah. The following are some of the bibliography were reviewed:A.R. Sukrianta dan Abdul Munir Malkhan, Perkembangan Pemikiran Muhammadiyah dari Masa ke Masa: Menyambut Muktamar ke-41, (Yogyakarta: Dua Dimensi, 1985).A.R. Sukriyanto dan Abdul Munir Mulkhan, Pergumulan Pemikiran dalam Muhammadiyah, (Yogyakarta: Sipress, 1990).Ruslan Abdul Gani. et.al., Cita dan Citra Muhamma…
Islam di “Negeri Bawah Angin” dalam Masa Perdagangan
This article is a review of the book Anthony Reid, Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680, Volume One: The Lands below the Winds, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1988; Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce 1450-1680, Volume Two: Expansion and Crisis, New Haven & London, Yale University Press, 1993.Studies of 'The Lands Below the Winds' - a medical Middle Eastern term reffering to Southeast Asia - especially those related to Is…
Ḥadrāmī scholars in the Malay-Indonesian Diaspora: A Preliminary Study of Sayyid ‘Uthmān
The absence of in-depth study of the 'ulama Hadhrami archipelago, especially the period after the 18th century when people Hadhrami emigration reached its peak, is something surprising. Indeed, there are records of the 'ulama certain Hadhrami, but many do not provide adequate information. Note that usually only contains a very brief description and not the whole of the presence and role of 'Hadhrami scholars in the history of Islam in the archipe…
The Indies Chinese and the Sarekat lslam: AnAccount of the Anti-Chinese Riots in ColonialIndonesia
Educational policy towards the native Dutch 19th century has been a lot of encouraging the emergence of the seeds of nationalism (proto-nationalism). This policy allows certain native circles to get the Dutch education. Although the number is very small, the role of native Dutch school graduates is very important. They became the backbone of the national people's attitudes develop bumiputera.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v1i1.865
Guarding the Faith of the Ummah: Religio-Intellectual Journey of Mohammad Rasjidi
Professor Mohammad Rasjidi, no doubt, is one of the Muslim intellectuals and national leaders of Indonesia's most prominent. He is the first Indonesian to obtain a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Cairo University and a Doctorate in Javanese spiritualism from the Sorbonne University, France. No less important, is the Minister of Religious Rasjidi first in the history of independent Indonesia, just as the existence of the Ministry of Religious…
Melacak Pengaruh dan Pergeseran Orientasi Tamatan Kairo
In the last view years there have emerged some new tendencies in studying Muslim societies. One of the most important of these is the study of religio-cultural exchange among the various Muslim societies in the world. There is a little doubt that this kind of study is both interesting and challenging. It involves not only a form of comparative study of the Muslim societies have influenced each other in the course of history.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v2i3…
Nu: Islam Tradisional dan Modernitas di Indonesia
As stated by Abdurrahman Wahid in his introduction, the book under discussion is the first one written in English, not in the Indonesian language, that discusses the Nahdatul Ulama (NU). This is of course very surprising, since the NU is one of the largest Muslim organizations in Indonesia.DOI: 10.15408/sdi.v4i4.770
The Transmission of al-Manar's Reformism to the Malay-Indonesian World: The Cases of al-Imam and al-Munir
This journal not only directly influenced the spread of Islamic reformism through its own articles, but most importantly also stimulated the publication of similar journals printed in the Maiay-Indonesian world. This paper is an early attempt to delineate and discuss in a comprehensive manner the transmission of Islamic reformism to the Maiay-Indonesian world by means of journals: primarly al-Imam in Singapore and al-Munir in Padang, West Sumatra…
Islam in Indonesian Foreign Policy: Assesing Impacts of Islamic Revivalism during the Soeharto Era
In the last two decades, the Islamic world has witnessed something of an Islamic revival. Indonesian Muslims to a certain extent are likewise affected by the euphoria of Islamic revivalism; and there is much evidence to suggest that Islam, like other religions in Indonesia, is also experiencing a revival. As a result frequently since the end of the 1980s, Muslims have succeeded in influencing the making of government domestic policy for the inter…
Networks of the Ulama in the Haramayn: Connections in the Indian Ocean Region
The involvement of the ulama of the Indian Ocean region took at least two forms. Firstly, through their travelling or migrating to the Holy Cities of Mecca and Medina (the Haramayn). The author found that a great number of ulama and students from the Indian Ocean region came to and later settled in the Holy Cities to study and teach. Secondly, students who felt that they possessed sufficient knowledge returned to their place of origin in the Indi…
A Hadhrami Religious Scholar in Indonesia: Sayyid ʿUthmān
Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern 'Ulamā' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Professor Azra's meticulous study, using sources from the Middle East itself, shows how scholars in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were reconstructing the intellectual and socio-moral foundation of Muslim societies
The Origins of Islamic Reformism in Southeast Asia: Networks of Malay-Indonesian and Middle Eastern 'Ulamā' in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Islamic renewal and reformism is an ongoing process which is commonly thought to have xtarted only in the twentieth century
Indonesian higher education: From public good to privatization
Indonesian higher education plays an important role in the acceleration of modernization in the country. Indonesia began to have higher education only after independence. And since then, the Indonesian government has founded and expanded higher education institutions; up until 2004 there were 81 public universities under Ministry of National Education (MONE) and 59 under Ministry of Religious Affairs (MORA). The government provides a large portio…
Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia * by R. Michael Feener
Islamic law in Indonesia—the most populous Muslim nation in the world—is a subject that has been getting increasing attention recently. A number of important works on it in English have come out, the one under review being the latest. Feener's work, no doubt, contributes a great deal to a much better grasp among students of Islamic law of the development of Muslim legal thought in modern or, more precisely, contemporary Indonesia. (The title pref…
Varieties of Religious Authority: Changes and Challenges in 20th Century Indonesian Islam
The twentieth century was a fascinating period of profound political, social and economic changes in Indonesia. These changes contributed to the diversification of the religious landscape and as a result, religious authority was redistributed over an increasing number of actors. Although many Muslims in Indonesia continued to regard the ulama, the traditional religious scholars, as the principle source of religious guidance, religious authority h…
Islamisasi Jawa
Bookreview: M.C. Ricklefs, Islamisation and Its Opponents in Java: A Political, Social, and Religious History, c. 1930 to the Present (Singapore: NUS Press, 2012, xxi+575 halaman)This work of Ricklefs is the last in a trilogy and follows Mystic Synthesis in Java: A History of Islamisation from the Fourteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries (2006), and Polarising Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions c. 1830–1930 (2007). The three works co…
Intelektual Muslim Baru dan Kajian Islam
Book Review: Carool Kersten, Cosmopolitans and Heretics: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam, London: Hurst & Company, 2011, xvi+324 pages.This book is a very important contribution to the study of Islam in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, a country with the largest Muslims population in the world. The inclusion of Nucholish Madjid in this work on the intellectual dynamics in the Muslim world has a symbolic significance that cann…
Kartosuwiryo dan NII: Kajian Ulang
Formichi, Kiara, Islam in The Making of The Nation: Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th Century Indonesia. Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 282, Leiden: KITLV Press, 2012, xvii, 244 pp. (map), USD 49.00, paper, ISBN 978-90-6718-386-4Chiara Formichi’s book, Islam and the Making of the Nation: Kartosuwiryo and Political Islam in 20th Century Indonesia (2012), is the most recent work on Kartosuwiryo …
Kontestasi Pemikiran Islam Indonesia Kontemporer
Carool Kersten. 2015. Islam in Indonesia: The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values, London: Hurst & Company, pp. 373+xx.Comprehensive studies of contemporary Indonesian Islam are still scarce. Most of the studies on this subject deal with certain aspects of current developments in Indonesian Islam. Kersten’s book is an attempt to present an intellectual history of contemporary Indonesian Islam in six chapters: first, secularism, pluralism and li…
Islam Beyond Conflict: Indonesian Islam and Western Political Theory
1. Introduction / Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson -- 2. Political modernity and Indonesian Islam : a manifesto / Azyumardi Azra and Wayne Hudson -- 3. Islamic perspectives and the rules of law and constitutionalism / N.A. Fadhil Lubis -- 4. Constitutional values and an Islamic state / Adnan Buyung Nasution -- 5. The ambiguities of the rule of law / Brian Galligan -- 6. Western and Islamic conceptions of the rule of law / Spencer Zifcak -- 7. Demo…
Kesalehan dan Politik: Islam Indonesia
Thomas B. Pepinsky, R. William Liddle, and Saiful Mujani. 2018. Piety and Public Opinion: Understanding Indonesian Islam. Oxford: Oxford University PressSaiful Mujani, R. William Liddl, and Kuskridho Ambardi. 2018. Voting Behavior in Indonesia since Democratization: Critical Democrats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.This article aims to review two books written by four foremost scholars in the field of political science. In the context of …
Transregional Islam in the Malay-Indonesian World: Legacies and New Dynamics
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Islam (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Islamic Studies and Radicalism (16 works) · Philosophy (15 works) · Asian Studies and History (14 works) · Indonesian (14 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Islamic Finance and Communication (9 works)