Dari Nalar Literalis-Normatif Menuju Nalar Kontekstualis-Historis dalam Studi Islam
Abstract: It seems legitimate
to say that the classical-conventional methodology gives birth to a rigid and
theo-centric view of Islam. This form of methodology is dogmatic and is replete
with a systematic indoctrination, such that would lead one to accept a particular
view of religion often blindly while believing that other views are wrong. This
paper offers a challenge to that old-fashion methodology by deconstructing it,
and then constructing a new form of methodology. We treat the classical
methodology as being literal-normative, and the new one that we propose as
being contextual-historical. We argue that the former has gone out of context,
because it was invented for its own time. The latter in the meantime is
critical and considerate to new demands and contexts. We speak of this new
methodology as characteristically multi-disciplin-ary in the sense that within
its premises, various forms of knowledge are deemed to have been interconnected
and together constitute an integral web of epistemic construction.
Keywords: literal-normative,
contextual-historical, methodology
Penulis: A. Halil Thahir
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd100040
