Particular Sunnism Versi Hasyim Asy’ari tentang Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jama‘ah
Abstract: This study focuses
on Hasyim Asy’ari’s religious thinking. It particularly examines three key
issues, Hasyim’s responses to religious dynamics in the early twentieth
century, the correlation between his ideas and the religious tradition or
thinking of the ulama’ in the medieval period, and the extent to which he
presented the originality, trend, and uniqueness of his ideas on the discourse
of Ahl al-Sunnah wa al-Jamâ‘ah. Basing its analysis on the historical
understanding of religion and philosophy, the study also makes use of
hermeneutics, and seeks to grasp the deep meaning of the text by considering
carefully its horizons. The findings of this study imply that Hasyim crafted a
new concept of Sunnism, which can be particularly called “particular Sunnism”.
By this we mean a discursive understanding of the concept of Ahl al-Sunnah wa
al-Jamâ‘ah according to the context of locality, the religious dynamics that
shape it as well as the existing interpretation on it that has been taken by
the likes of the modernists and traditionalists in Indonesia in the early
twentieth century.
Keywords: Particular Sunnism,
Tradisionalist, Modernist, Bid‘ah, Ijtihad, Taqlid, Authentic Islam
Penulis: Achmad Muhibin Zuhri
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd110055
