Pemikiran Fiqih Moderat di Timur Tengah dan Relasinya dengan Gerakan Fiqih Formalis
Abstract: Islamic thought has
conventionally distinguished between what it calls the People of Hadith (ahlu
al-hadîs) and the People of Opinion (ahl ar-ra’y). These two segments have
improved into a countless current of thought in the modern world, making it
impossible to refer to a certain type of thinking as this or that. Nonetheless,
the basic characters of the modern Muslim thinking are not quite distinctive
from that of the classical-dualistic dichotomy. Hence, the clash of discourse
that we witnessed recently in various Muslim worlds is reflective of the
intellectual tension between the People of Hadith and the People of Opinion.
The clash of discourse that we have just referred to even took the form of
physical conflict such as that which happened in Egypt and Algeria. In these
two Muslim countries the clash of discourse has turned into the clash of
politics, where religious radicalism and absolutism are the dominant features.
This paper seeks to provide a critique of this negative development, offering
in the process a kind of discourse that can serve as an alternative, namely the
discourse of a moderate Islam.
Keywords: Moderate Islam,
radicalism, absolutism, formalistic fiqh
Penulis: M. Zaidi Abdad
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd110093
