Masdar Hilmy
Biographic Data
| ID | 5190738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Masdar Hilmy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Masdar |
| FAMILY NAME | Hilmy |
| SIGNATURE | HILMY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2807-4442 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Invisible pedagogy and civic habitus: Two Contrasting Pesantren models constructing national dispositions in Madura, Indonesia
Pesantren, Indonesia’s traditional Islamic boarding schools, occupy an undertheorised position at the intersection of religious socialisation and civic formation. Drawing on Bernstein’s classification and framing framework and Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, this article compares two contrasting pesantren in Madura, Indonesia (Annuqayah and Banyuanyar), based on thirty interviews, eight months of observation, and document analysis. Annuqayah combi…
Religiously grounded educational loyalty: A multi-sited ethnography of pesantren in Madura
This study examines how educational loyalty to pesantren is enacted, negotiated, and reproduced in Madurese communities amid expanding schooling alternatives. Drawing on seventeen months of multi-sited ethnography (August 2024-December 2025) across twelve pesantren in four regencies, it combines participant observation, thirty-two semi-structured interviews, fieldnotes, and institutional and alumni documents. Rather than using religious fanaticis…
Moral leadership development in Indonesian Islamic boarding schools: A comparative study of two pesantren
Religious education textbook assessment in Indonesia: A multi-faith approach to religious moderation
Orientalist Influence and Its Decline in Indonesian Islamic Studies: Tracing Intellectual and Institutional Transformations
It is undeniable that many Orientalist works have hurt Oriental images up to the present time. However, it is equally important to acknowledge the positive contributions of Orientalist scholarship to the advancement of Oriental studies. In the context of Indonesian Islamic studies, both Western researchers (Orientalists) and Indonesian-born Muslim scholars have played a significant role in shaping Islamic educational institutions and influencing …
Child Marriage in Villages: Misuse of Ijbār, Structural Discrimination, and Best Interest of the Child Dismissal
Despite ongoing global efforts to end child marriage, the practice remains widespread in Indonesia. In 2024, Pasuruan recorded some of the highest child marriage rates. Ngantungan Village in Pasrepan is a striking example of how entrenched cultural beliefs and economic pressures continue to drive the trend. This study investigates how structural discrimination—primarily through the practice of ijbār (coercive guardianship) in Islamic legal interp…
Australian Scholarship on Indonesian Islam: A Socio-historical Overview
This article analyzes the extent to which Australian scholarship portrays the reality of Indonesian Islam from a socio-historical perspective. This article argues that there is no such thing as interest-free in the process of knowledge production in Indonesian Islam studies. The production of knowledge on Indonesian Islam made by Australian scholars in Australian universities are inextricably linked to political and economic interests of the coun…
In Search for Muslim Ethics of Calvinism: Improving the Quality of Public Life through the Incorporation of Religious Narratives into the State Policies in Indonesia
This article deals with an exploration of how Islam is translated into Calvinist ethics into the state policies in order to improve the quality of public life in Indonesia by revisiting the foundation of “mild secularism” adopted by the founding fathers of this country. Along with this argument, religious ethics can be utilized in improving the quality of public life by revitalizing religious doctrines to support the betterment of public life qua…
Organic Tolerance and Harmony in the Pesantren Bali Bina Insani
This paper describes the organic tolerance, capital, and management of harmony at a pesantren of the Muslim minority in Bali, Indonesia. The pesantren is Bali Bina Insani (BBI) in which there are Muslim and Hindu teachers. The organic tolerance, capital, and management of harmony with the accommodation of some Hindu teachers is a certainty. Data collection was carried out through documentation, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, th…
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's Perspective on Fiqh Aqalliyat in a Multicultural Society
Fiqh al-aqalliyyat plays an important role in addressing the unique challenges faced by Muslim minority communities in multicultural societies. In multicultural societies, where diversity and multiple cultures are embraced, issues relating to values, culture, and customs can lead to discrimination or marginalisation of certain groups. Therefore, it is important to promote equality, inclusion and non-discrimination, which allows all individuals to…
Reflective Teaching Practice: Insight(s) from Indonesia’s Pesantren
Reflective teaching (RT) is a strategy used by teachers to improve their professionalism in the learning process. This indicator has long been debated and investigated in the field of education. However, few have examined the realm of Islamic education institutions, which have distinct qualities. As a result, the purpose of this study was conducted to investigate how teachers in Indonesian Islamic education institution implement RT. Quantitative …
Resisting the Surge of Salafism among Malay and Javanese Muslims: The Dynamics of the Tarekat Naqshbandiya and Qadiriya wa Naqshbandiya in Promoting Peaceful Islam in Riau Sumatera
This article examines the role of two Sufi orders, the Naqshbandiya order and the Qadiriyya wa al-Naqshbandiya order, in the social and cultural transformation of Malay and Javanese Muslims in contemporary Sumatra, specifically in the Malay Riau region. Socio-political approach is employed in order to analyze the internal and external dynamics of the actors involved in the object of study. The argument presented in this article states that, the N…
Reconstructing Islamic Epistemology: Bridging Metaphysics, Reason, and Revelation
The modern positivistic paradigm, which places significant emphasis on empirical verification, has led to a shift in the position of Islamic sciences. Islamic sciences, which rely on a balance between revelation, reason, and human experience, have been affected by this shift. In the intellectual history of Islam, the mystical dimension has played an important role in shaping the conception of science. This raises critical questions about the role…
Pesantren and the preservation of traditional religious authority in the digital age
Kiai is the Javanese term of ulama in the traditional Muslim community. It generally refers to a person who has a deep understanding of Islam and leads the institution of traditional Islamic education called pondok pesantren or Islamic boarding school. Indeed, the strength of a Kiai is based on his leadership at the pesantren that has functioned as a space for cultural-social reproduction. While the attention of many researchers focused on the sh…
Islamic Education in a Minority Setting
This study documents how multicultural education is constructed and implemented in a local pesantren in Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia, namely PBBI (Pesantren Bali Bina Insani). It demonstrates that the multicultural education in this pesantren is based upon the reality of religious, cultural, ethnic, group, and gender diversity that exists surrounding the pesantren. Teaching and administrative staff of this pesantren consist of Muslims and Hindus. Stu…
Winning the Battle of Authorities: The Muslim Disputes Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Plague in Contemporary Indonesia
Scholarly works on the way Indonesian Muslims perceive and respond to a pandemic—including Covid-19—have left an untouched theoretical gap. Works on pandemics or plagues mostly consist of sporadic and preliminary brief reflective pieces. This article endeavors to fill the academic gap concerning this theme. This article seeks to portray the dynamics of the religious disputes among Indonesian Muslims about the Covid-19 pandemic that affects the en…
Permasalahan dan Upaya Pengembangan Kajian Islam Multidisipliner di Pascasarjana Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Ampel Surabaya
The transformation of IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya to UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya has an impact on changing the epistemology of science. The choice of twin towers as the paradigm needs to be translated to various levels of academic practice, so that the persons of academic community in UIN Sunan Ampel can understand and implement the paradigm. The studies in UIN Sunan Ampel also must be oriented to the paradigm. One of them is in Postgraduate Program, …
Radical Islamism as a Mode of Production
This article attempts to provide a breakthrough which I call mode of production theory. This theory will be employed to analyze the contemporary phenomenon of radical Islamism. The mode of production theory is meant to bridge the two clashing theoretical paradigms in social sciences and humanities, i.e., Weberian and Marxian. Despite its bridging nature, the paper argues that the two cannot be merged within one single thread. This is because each…
Towards a Religiously Hybrid Identity? The Changing Face of Javanese Islam
This article seeks to revisit the discussion of Javanese Islam from an alternative point of view. It argues that the presentation of Javanese Islam in the previous studies is no longer adequate to accommodate the most current transformation of Javanese Islam. The identity of Javanese Islam can neither be seen from syncretic point of view nor normative perspective per se , since the identity of Javanese Islam has transformed itself into something …
Induktivisme sebagai Basis Pengembangan Ilmu Pengetahuan dalam Islam
This paper analyses how inductive paradigm has been misperceived and mistreated by Muslims, and discusses the extent to which the inductive paradigm and the deductive one has long been competing to one another throughout the development of science in Islam. This paper argues that the backwardness of Muslim civilization is due to the fact that the inductive paradigm has long been neglected and has been misperceived by Muslim scientists as a Wester…
Radikalisme Agama Dan Politik Demokrasi Di Indonesia Pasca-Orde Baru
Abstrak: Artikel ini menganalisis kemunculan radikalisme Islam di Indonesia pasca-Orde Baru dalam kaitannya dengan politik demokrasi serta implikasinya terhadap kebijakan negara atas radikalisme. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan politik-hukum, artikel ini berargumen bahwa kelompok radikal harus diperlakukan secara hati-hati dalam kerangka prinsip-prinsip demokrasi karena demokrasi harus menggaransi kebebasan berpendapat untuk semua. Dalam konteks in…
The Political Economy of Sunni-Shi’ah Conflict in Sampang Madura
Many overlooked the fact that politico-economic factors played an important role behind the 2011 and 2012 Sunni-Shi’ah conflict in Sampang Madura. Some, however, argue that the Sunni-Shi’ah conflict was merely driven by theological factors. The major roots of the conflict thus were therefore the internal dimensions of religious beliefs as contained in its doctrines. As a result, the conflict can only be explained in terms of religious and theolog…
Genealogi Dan Pengaruh Ideologi Jihadisme Negara Islam Iraq Dan Suriah (Niis) Di Indonesia
This paper tries to analyze the ideology of jihadism as developed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), its genealogy and its influence in Indonesia. This paper argues that ISIS does not represent the replica of other jihadist ideologies and movements such as al-Qaeda, regardless of its historical relation in the past. Rather, ISIS represents itself, a focal point where its ideologues eclectically coin and pick some religious doctrines w…
Akar-akar Transnasionalisme Islam Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI)
This paper tries to trace and analyze the roots of“Islamic transnationalism” or “transnational Islam” in Indonesia through the lens of the three theoretical frameworks that I borrowed from Mandaville as follows: (1) travelling theory; (2) hibridity theory, and; (3) diasphora theory. The paper focuses its analysis on an Islamic movement who carries the ideology of “Islamic transnationalism” (khilâ fah Islâmiyah), namely Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HT…
The Politics of Retaliation: The Backlash of Radical Islamists to the Deradicalization Project in Indonesia
This paper seeks to analyze how the program of deradicalization in Indonesia is approached, understood and treated by radical Islamists. This paper argues that the deradicalization program in this country has invited controversies, criticisms and even backlash from radical Islamists on the grounds that it goes against the principles of human rights because of state’s intervention into religious life of its citizens. In addition, it is carried out…
Winning the Battle of Authorities: The Muslim Disputes Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Plague in Contemporary Indonesia
Scholarly works on the way Indonesian Muslims perceive and respond to a pandemic—including Covid-19—have left an untouched theoretical gap. Works on pandemics or plagues mostly consist of sporadic and preliminary brief reflective pieces. This article endeavors to fill the academic gap concerning this theme. This article seeks to portray the dynamics of the religious disputes among Indonesian Muslims about the Covid-19 pandemic that affects the en…
Dirāsat fī al-Islām al-Mahallī: Adwā’ ‘alā Inṣihār al-Islām fī al-Thaqāfah al-Jāwīyah
This article attempts to explore a study of Islam in Java in the frame of the above conception -the dialogue tradition. The process of acculturation between Islam and Javanese culture, which developed in the dialogue tradition, is the central point of this article. Religious discourses embodied in Javanese texts, such as suluk and babad, written in the period of the establishment of Islam until the 19th century, are considered as the cultural rep…
Partai Keadilan Sejahtera: A Mawdudian-Meliorist Vision of Islamism in Post-New Order Indonesia
This article seeks to analyze how one group, that is, the Justice and Welfare Party (PKS), is attempting to clean up politics from within the political party system. This article argues that the existence of PKS has given a new but unique political nuance to the political party system in post-New Order Indonesia. The seemingly sudden rise of PKS has taken many by surprise, and it is for this that the party has become the topic of much discourse a…
Islamism and Democracy in Indonesia: Piety and Pragmatism
Most scholarly works conducted within the period of post-New Order Indonesia have underlined the fact that Indonesian Islamists reject the notion of democracy; no adequate explanation nonetheless has been attempted thus far as to how and to what extent democracy is being rejected. This book is dedicated to filling the gap by examining the complex reality behind the Islamists' rejection of democracy. It focuses its analysis on two streams of Islam…
Towards a “Wider Mandate” of Pesantren: In Searh for a New Nomenclature of Political Role of Pesantren in an Era of Democracy
Makalah ini berusaha menganalisis tren kontemporer sebagian besar pesantren Indonesia dalam konteks pasca pemilihan presiden. Bahwa keberadaan pesantren tidak bisa memisahkan diri dari konfigurasi politik Indonesia. Politik dalam pesantren dapat dilihat sebagai modalitas pesantren untuk mencapai kehidupan publik lebih baik. Namun demikian, sebagian besar pesantren menyadari bahwa melibatkan diri dalam politik praktis dapat merusak citra dan keman…
QUO-Vadis Islam Moderat Indonesia? Menimbang Kembali Modernisme Nahdlatul Ulama dan Muhammadiyah
Abstrak: Tulisan ini hendak membongkar mitos Islam moderat Indonesia melalui pengamatan terhadap dua organisasi keagamaan yang selama ini dikenal sebagai “juara” Islam moderat yaitu Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) dan Muhammadiyah. Pertanyaan yang mengemuka adalah, pertama, apakah benar bahwa pandangan-pandangan keagamaan kedua organisasi ini moderat; kedua, apakah ada Islam moderat yang khas Indonesia, dan ketiga, bagaimana—setelah membongkar mitos—membang…
The Politics of Retaliation: The Backlash of Radical Islamists to the Deradicalization Project in Indonesia
This paper seeks to analyze how the program of deradicalization in Indonesia is approached, understood and treated by radical Islamists. This paper argues that the deradicalization program in this country has invited controversies, criticisms and even backlash from radical Islamists on the grounds that it goes against the principles of human rights because of state’s intervention into religious life of its citizens. In addition, it is carried out…
Akar-akar Transnasionalisme Islam Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI)
This paper tries to trace and analyze the roots of“Islamic transnationalism” or “transnational Islam” in Indonesia through the lens of the three theoretical frameworks that I borrowed from Mandaville as follows: (1) travelling theory; (2) hibridity theory, and; (3) diasphora theory. The paper focuses its analysis on an Islamic movement who carries the ideology of “Islamic transnationalism” (khilâ fah Islâmiyah), namely Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HT…
Radikalisme Agama Dan Politik Demokrasi Di Indonesia Pasca-Orde Baru
Abstrak: Artikel ini menganalisis kemunculan radikalisme Islam di Indonesia pasca-Orde Baru dalam kaitannya dengan politik demokrasi serta implikasinya terhadap kebijakan negara atas radikalisme. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan politik-hukum, artikel ini berargumen bahwa kelompok radikal harus diperlakukan secara hati-hati dalam kerangka prinsip-prinsip demokrasi karena demokrasi harus menggaransi kebebasan berpendapat untuk semua. Dalam konteks in…
The Political Economy of Sunni-Shi’ah Conflict in Sampang Madura
Many overlooked the fact that politico-economic factors played an important role behind the 2011 and 2012 Sunni-Shi’ah conflict in Sampang Madura. Some, however, argue that the Sunni-Shi’ah conflict was merely driven by theological factors. The major roots of the conflict thus were therefore the internal dimensions of religious beliefs as contained in its doctrines. As a result, the conflict can only be explained in terms of religious and theolog…
Genealogi Dan Pengaruh Ideologi Jihadisme Negara Islam Iraq Dan Suriah (Niis) Di Indonesia
This paper tries to analyze the ideology of jihadism as developed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), its genealogy and its influence in Indonesia. This paper argues that ISIS does not represent the replica of other jihadist ideologies and movements such as al-Qaeda, regardless of its historical relation in the past. Rather, ISIS represents itself, a focal point where its ideologues eclectically coin and pick some religious doctrines w…
Induktivisme sebagai Basis Pengembangan Ilmu Pengetahuan dalam Islam
This paper analyses how inductive paradigm has been misperceived and mistreated by Muslims, and discusses the extent to which the inductive paradigm and the deductive one has long been competing to one another throughout the development of science in Islam. This paper argues that the backwardness of Muslim civilization is due to the fact that the inductive paradigm has long been neglected and has been misperceived by Muslim scientists as a Wester…
Towards a Religiously Hybrid Identity? The Changing Face of Javanese Islam
This article seeks to revisit the discussion of Javanese Islam from an alternative point of view. It argues that the presentation of Javanese Islam in the previous studies is no longer adequate to accommodate the most current transformation of Javanese Islam. The identity of Javanese Islam can neither be seen from syncretic point of view nor normative perspective per se , since the identity of Javanese Islam has transformed itself into something …
Permasalahan dan Upaya Pengembangan Kajian Islam Multidisipliner di Pascasarjana Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Ampel Surabaya
The transformation of IAIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya to UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya has an impact on changing the epistemology of science. The choice of twin towers as the paradigm needs to be translated to various levels of academic practice, so that the persons of academic community in UIN Sunan Ampel can understand and implement the paradigm. The studies in UIN Sunan Ampel also must be oriented to the paradigm. One of them is in Postgraduate Program, …
Radical Islamism as a Mode of Production
This article attempts to provide a breakthrough which I call mode of production theory. This theory will be employed to analyze the contemporary phenomenon of radical Islamism. The mode of production theory is meant to bridge the two clashing theoretical paradigms in social sciences and humanities, i.e., Weberian and Marxian. Despite its bridging nature, the paper argues that the two cannot be merged within one single thread. This is because each…
Islamic Education in a Minority Setting
This study documents how multicultural education is constructed and implemented in a local pesantren in Tabanan, Bali, Indonesia, namely PBBI (Pesantren Bali Bina Insani). It demonstrates that the multicultural education in this pesantren is based upon the reality of religious, cultural, ethnic, group, and gender diversity that exists surrounding the pesantren. Teaching and administrative staff of this pesantren consist of Muslims and Hindus. Stu…
Winning the Battle of Authorities: The Muslim Disputes Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Plague in Contemporary Indonesia
Scholarly works on the way Indonesian Muslims perceive and respond to a pandemic—including Covid-19—have left an untouched theoretical gap. Works on pandemics or plagues mostly consist of sporadic and preliminary brief reflective pieces. This article endeavors to fill the academic gap concerning this theme. This article seeks to portray the dynamics of the religious disputes among Indonesian Muslims about the Covid-19 pandemic that affects the en…
Pesantren and the preservation of traditional religious authority in the digital age
Kiai is the Javanese term of ulama in the traditional Muslim community. It generally refers to a person who has a deep understanding of Islam and leads the institution of traditional Islamic education called pondok pesantren or Islamic boarding school. Indeed, the strength of a Kiai is based on his leadership at the pesantren that has functioned as a space for cultural-social reproduction. While the attention of many researchers focused on the sh…
Organic Tolerance and Harmony in the Pesantren Bali Bina Insani
This paper describes the organic tolerance, capital, and management of harmony at a pesantren of the Muslim minority in Bali, Indonesia. The pesantren is Bali Bina Insani (BBI) in which there are Muslim and Hindu teachers. The organic tolerance, capital, and management of harmony with the accommodation of some Hindu teachers is a certainty. Data collection was carried out through documentation, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, th…
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi's Perspective on Fiqh Aqalliyat in a Multicultural Society
Fiqh al-aqalliyyat plays an important role in addressing the unique challenges faced by Muslim minority communities in multicultural societies. In multicultural societies, where diversity and multiple cultures are embraced, issues relating to values, culture, and customs can lead to discrimination or marginalisation of certain groups. Therefore, it is important to promote equality, inclusion and non-discrimination, which allows all individuals to…
Reflective Teaching Practice: Insight(s) from Indonesia’s Pesantren
Reflective teaching (RT) is a strategy used by teachers to improve their professionalism in the learning process. This indicator has long been debated and investigated in the field of education. However, few have examined the realm of Islamic education institutions, which have distinct qualities. As a result, the purpose of this study was conducted to investigate how teachers in Indonesian Islamic education institution implement RT. Quantitative …
Resisting the Surge of Salafism among Malay and Javanese Muslims: The Dynamics of the Tarekat Naqshbandiya and Qadiriya wa Naqshbandiya in Promoting Peaceful Islam in Riau Sumatera
This article examines the role of two Sufi orders, the Naqshbandiya order and the Qadiriyya wa al-Naqshbandiya order, in the social and cultural transformation of Malay and Javanese Muslims in contemporary Sumatra, specifically in the Malay Riau region. Socio-political approach is employed in order to analyze the internal and external dynamics of the actors involved in the object of study. The argument presented in this article states that, the N…
Reconstructing Islamic Epistemology: Bridging Metaphysics, Reason, and Revelation
The modern positivistic paradigm, which places significant emphasis on empirical verification, has led to a shift in the position of Islamic sciences. Islamic sciences, which rely on a balance between revelation, reason, and human experience, have been affected by this shift. In the intellectual history of Islam, the mystical dimension has played an important role in shaping the conception of science. This raises critical questions about the role…
Australian Scholarship on Indonesian Islam: A Socio-historical Overview
This article analyzes the extent to which Australian scholarship portrays the reality of Indonesian Islam from a socio-historical perspective. This article argues that there is no such thing as interest-free in the process of knowledge production in Indonesian Islam studies. The production of knowledge on Indonesian Islam made by Australian scholars in Australian universities are inextricably linked to political and economic interests of the coun…
In Search for Muslim Ethics of Calvinism: Improving the Quality of Public Life through the Incorporation of Religious Narratives into the State Policies in Indonesia
This article deals with an exploration of how Islam is translated into Calvinist ethics into the state policies in order to improve the quality of public life in Indonesia by revisiting the foundation of “mild secularism” adopted by the founding fathers of this country. Along with this argument, religious ethics can be utilized in improving the quality of public life by revitalizing religious doctrines to support the betterment of public life qua…
Orientalist Influence and Its Decline in Indonesian Islamic Studies: Tracing Intellectual and Institutional Transformations
It is undeniable that many Orientalist works have hurt Oriental images up to the present time. However, it is equally important to acknowledge the positive contributions of Orientalist scholarship to the advancement of Oriental studies. In the context of Indonesian Islamic studies, both Western researchers (Orientalists) and Indonesian-born Muslim scholars have played a significant role in shaping Islamic educational institutions and influencing …
Sociology (22 works) · Islamic Studies and Radicalism (20 works) · Islam (18 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Political science (17 works) · Asian Studies and History (12 works) · Politics (11 works) · Theology (11 works) · Islamic Finance and Communication (10 works)