Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Preface: Toward an intellectual history of modern Indonesian Islam
- 1 Technology, training, and cultural transformation
- 2 The open gate of ijtihād
- 3 An “Indonesian madhhab”
- 4 Sharī ʿa Islam in a Pancasila nation
- 5 New Muslim intellectuals and the “re-actualization” of Islam
- 6 The new ‘ulamā’
- 7 Next generation fiqh?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Sharī ʿa Islam in a Pancasila nation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Preface: Toward an intellectual history of modern Indonesian Islam
- 1 Technology, training, and cultural transformation
- 2 The open gate of ijtihād
- 3 An “Indonesian madhhab”
- 4 Sharī ʿa Islam in a Pancasila nation
- 5 New Muslim intellectuals and the “re-actualization” of Islam
- 6 The new ‘ulamā’
- 7 Next generation fiqh?
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Everything found in both the eastern and western pagan State is also found in a Christian State, but this all receives a different meaning and is revived in the spirit of Truth. There is dominion in the Christian State, but dominion not in the name of its own power, rather, in the name of the common weal and according to the directions of Church authority. There is in the Christian State subordination, but not out of slavish fear, rather, voluntarily and according to conscience … Rights exist in a Christian State, but rights which flow not from a boundless human egoism … In a Christian State there is law, but not in the sense of simple legitimation of existing relationships, rather in the sense of their reform according to the ideas of supreme Truth.
V. S. Soloviev, On the Christian State and SocietyThe discussion of the work of Hazairin and Hasbi Ash Shiddieqy in chapter 3 presented some of the ways in which developing notions of Indonesian nationalism had come to frame discussions of Islamic law and society in the mid twentieth century. While both Hasbi and Hazairin advocated the further Islamization of Indonesian society, neither of them really questioned the position of Soekarno's Pancasila ideology as the official basis for the Indonesian state.
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- Muslim Legal Thought in Modern Indonesia , pp. 81 - 117Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007