The Contestation of Feminism and Religious Authority and Its Implication in Islamic Education
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https://doi.org/10.21009/hayula.007.02.01Keywords:
Feminisme, Islam, Religious Authority, Islamic Education, WomenAbstract
Feminism and religious authority are two conceptual frameworks that have been subjects of discussion in the field of Islamic education. Both concepts are an ongoing contestation due to difference of perspectives and practices within Muslim community. Feminism in one hand is a movement that advocates gender equity and criticizes the marginalization of women in society. It often questions the culture of patriarchy that limit women’s agency. On the other hand, religious authority is often described as male-dominated domain. This paper aims to elaborate how feminism challenges traditional and conservative religious authority and to what extent its implications towards Islamic education? These questions are answered through a library-based qualitative method. The finding shows that feminism challenges the dominance of male religious authority. Feminism emphasizes the need for Islamic educational institutions to implement egalitarian principles of Islam that place female and male equally and to promote women’s religious role, leadership and religious authority. This will contribute to rebuild a more egalitarian Islamic education that empower women and shape a more inclusive Muslim society.
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Khoer, F. I., Gustiawati, S., & Yono, Y. (2022). Kepemimpinan Perempuan Dalam Perspektif Hukum Islam. As-Syar’i: Jurnal Bimbingan & Konseling Keluarga, 4(1), 42–49.
Kholis, M. N. (2015). Konsep Kepala Keluarga Antara Laki-Laki Dan Perempuan Dalam Surat An Nisa (4) Ayat 34. Istinbath: Jurnal Hukum, 12(2), 274–290.
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Mahmood, S. (2001). Feminist theory, embodiment, and the docile agent: Some reflections on the Egyptian Islamic revival. Cultural Anthropology, 16(2), 202–236.
Mahmudah, N. (2016). Perempuan Dalam Relasi Kuasa Tafsir Al Qur’an: Telaah Atas Corak Tafsir Ummu Salamah RA. PALASTREN: Jurnal Studi Gender, 6(2), 421–440.
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Mas’udah Al Mas’udah, A. (2018). Agama dan Pemikiran Keagamaan (Membedah Teori Abdulkarim Soroush Tentang Qabdh Wa Bast). Jurnal Al Himayah, 2(1), 1–16.
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Moghadam, V. M. (2002). Islamic feminism and its discontents: Toward a resolution of the debate. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 27(4), 1135–1171.
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Narulita, S. (2015). Psikologi Islam Kontemporer. Jurnal Studi Al-Qur'an, 11(1), 55-69.
Patros, A., & Anggelia, C. (2021). Polemik Desakan Pengesahan RUU PKS: Suatu Tinjauan Sistem Hukum Nasional dan Perspektif Hak Asasi Manusia. Jurnal Komunikasi Hukum (JKH), 7(2), 628–640.
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Putry, R. (2015). Kepemimpinan Perempuan dalam Perspektif Islam. Jurnal MUDARRISUNA: Media Kajian Pendidikan Agama Islam, 5(2), 231–260.
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Rusydiana, N. R. U., & Azami, H. T. (2021). Interpretation QS. an-Nisa’: 34 Perspectives of Amina Wadud Muhsin and The Implication of Her Thinking In Indonesia. Jurnal Ushuluddin, 29(1), 87–100.
Saʻdāwī, N. (1997). The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World. Zed books.
Sahin, A. (2018). Critical issues in Islamic education studies: Rethinking Islamic and Western liberal secular values of education. Religions, 9(11), 335.
Said, M., Putri, M. A., Trirahayu, D., & Ismail, A. (2021). An Instrument for Assessing the Performance of University Research with a Gesi-Perspective. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal, 8(1).
Seedat, F. (2016). Beyond the Text: Between Islam and Feminism. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 32(2), 138–142.
Sholihah, F. (2020). Pengaruh Sosiologi Dalam Fiqh Kepemimpinan Wanita. Jurnal Hadratul Madaniyah, 7(2), 31–41.
Sofyan, M. (2015). Konsep Hermeneutika Otoritatif Khaled Abou El-Fadl. KALAM, 9(2), 373–392.
Soroush, A. (2000). Reason, Freedom, & Democracy in Islam: Essential Writings of ʻAbdolkarim Soroush. Oxford University Press.
Sufyan, A., & Irwan, I. (2022). Agama vs Ilmu Agama: Sebuah Pembacaan Teori Epistemologis Abdul Karim Soroush. TAJDID: Jurnal Pemikiran Keislaman Dan Kemanusiaan, 6(1), 14–21.
Suriansyah, E. (2017). Merombak Struktur, Membentuk Kultur (Studi Pemikiran Siti Musdah Mulia). Jurnal Studi Agama Dan Masyarakat, 13(2), 293–317.
Suwastini, N. K. A. (2019). Perkembangan feminisme Barat dari abad kedelapan belas hingga post feminisme: Sebuah Tinjauan Teoretis. Jurnal Ilmu Sosial Dan Humaniora, 2(1).
Syafiuddin, A. (2018). Pengaruh Kekuasaan Atas Pengetahuan (Memahami Teori Relasi Kuasa Michel Foucault). Refleksi Jurnal Filsafat Dan Pemikiran Islam, 18(2), 141–155.
Tohidi, N. (2003). Islamic feminism: Perils and promises. Middle Eastern Women on the Move, 135–146.
Wadud, A. (1999). Qur’an and woman: Rereading the sacred text from a woman’s perspective. Oxford University Press, USA.
Wadud, A. (2013). Inside the gender Jihad: women’s reform in Islam. Simon and Schuster.
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Nur Fuad, A. F. ., & Rizky Ramadhan, A. . (2023). The Contestation of Feminism and Religious Authority and Its Implication in Islamic Education. Hayula: Indonesian Journal of Multidisciplinary Islamic Studies, 7(2), 125–142. https://doi.org/10.21009/hayula.007.02.01
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