Akar Tradisi Politik Sunni di Indonesia Pada Masa Kerajaan Islam di Nusantara
Abstract: This research is
interested in exploring the seeds of the Sunni political thought during the era
of Islamic kingdom in Indonesia. Many have argued that the Islam that has
finally prevailed in the country is a Sunni Islam. Accepting this proposition
would mean that the political ideals that the early Muslim kings in the land
adopted are necessarily Sunni. The forms and contents of these ideals will be
the task of this paper to discover. The paper however argues that whatever form
the ideals have taken, the Indonesian version of Sunni politics has most likely
been developed around power. In other words, the ulama and the princes are two
sides of the same coin. While the ulama need the support of the princes to
disseminate the Sunni doctrine, the later needs the support of the former for
the legitimacy of his authority. The paper hence maintains that there has been
no any form of separation between religion and politics in the early history of
Indonesian Islam.
Keywords: Sunni politics,
Indonesian archipelago, formal Islam
Penulis: Muhammad Iqbal
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd110090
