TRADISI ORIENTALISME DAN FRAMEWORK STUDI AL-QUR’AN
ABSTRACT: Orientalism is a
field of study that deals with Eastern and Islamic studies as it object of
study. Being a discipline of knowledge it must have specific theory and
methodology or framework of study. However, since it emerged in Western
intellectual tradition, it is permeated by Western worldview. In other words,
being a science orientalism is value laden. This paper tries to prove the
correlation between the traditions of orientalism, where religious, cultural
and political melieu permeated their framework, with the study of the Qur’an.
The finding suggests that the framework of orientalis in their study of the
Qur’an could be resumed into four: trying to employ previous sacred text as
their standard of Qur’anic studies, preferring the textual studies rather than
narration, questioning the process of compilation, examining the content of the
Qur’an using their own logic and experience, and finally employing the Biblical
methodology. Those frameworks inevitably has resulted incongruencies that could
lead one to be misunderstanding the Qur’an
Penulis: Hamid Fahmy Zarkasyi
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd110271
