Tvarsnitt Humanistisk Och Samhallsvetenskaplig Forskning, 2011
I Indonesien pagar en livlig aktivitet kring hur man bor tolka kvinnors rattigheter inom den musl... more I Indonesien pagar en livlig aktivitet kring hur man bor tolka kvinnors rattigheter inom den muslimska laran. Insikten om genus betydelse star hogt pa agendan inom forskning och utbildning; vid flera universitet skrivs kursplaner och kurslitteratur utifran ett genusperspektiv. Aven utanfor akademien pagar islambaserat arbete for att starka kvinnors rattigheter. Ett exempel ar information om hiv och trafficking. Men skillnaderna mellan olika platser ar stora och pa manga stallen har den patriarkala kulturen fortfarande starkt faste.
This article argues that the ongoing introduction of a gender perspective in Indonesian Islamic e... more This article argues that the ongoing introduction of a gender perspective in Indonesian Islamic education is challenging the partially unconscious patriarchal gender regime of these institutions and a means of resisting traditional notions of religious authority. The activities of female teachers, scholars and researchers are instrumental in these endeavors. This study draws on empirical material collected through fieldwork in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Makassar, Banjarmasin, and Bandung, and includes brochures, books, course literature, research, interviews, and discussions. Data is primarily collected from state institutes for higher Islamic education and especially at their respective Centers for Women Studies. This material constitutes examples of how female, and male, religious scholars and teachers challenge the prevailing gender bias in Islamic education on all levels by introducing a gender perspective in curriculum, teaching, and textbooks, but also in their roles as exemplars an...
This study explores the linguistic aspects of the jihadi culture and highlights the discursive ro... more This study explores the linguistic aspects of the jihadi culture and highlights the discursive role of classical Arabic within jihadism. It builds on literature on Jihadi culture and contributes to it by empirically analyzing the case of Islamic State linguistic traditions archeologically and genealogically. The study concludes that the use of classical Arabic constitutes one of the pillars of the cultural structure of the jihadi culture. Classical Arabic does play an important role in the jihadi culture leaning towards a literalist approach to religious texts, and hence to adopt violence. However, the study denies any essentialist relation between classical Arabic and jihadi culture through presenting a historical sketch of the language as an element in a variety of other contexts.
It specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic Studies i... more It specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic Studies in general, and is intended to communicate original researches and current issues on the subject. is journal warmly welcomes contributions from scholars of related disciplines.
TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2015
This article discusses eleven Southeast Asian students’ transnational mobility in order to obtain... more This article discusses eleven Southeast Asian students’ transnational mobility in order to obtain higher education at an Islamic university in Jakarta. A life story approach has been used and semi-structured and interviewee-oriented interviews have been carried out in the field, as well as on the internet. The focus is not only on the students’ individual experiences, such as educational background, strategies in mobility, prevailing life conditions, educational objectives, and future plans, but also on why they chose international Islamic studies in Jakarta and how they evaluate the education offered there. Gender constitutes an overall empirical and analytical aspect of this article, taking into account the prevailing gender order, or norm, in the students’ homelands and families, as well as gender regimes, or relations, in the educational and social environment in Jakarta. These students have mixed backgrounds regarding nationality, class, parents’ education, gendered and religio...
Gea Gender and Education Association Conference April 11 13 Goteborg Theme Gender and Democracy Gender Research in Times of Change, 2012
Transnational mobility in higher education within Asia – Strategies and educational conditions am... more Transnational mobility in higher education within Asia – Strategies and educational conditions among young people related to gender, ethnicity and class. This workshop mainly invites to a methodological discussion within an ongoing interdisciplinary project focusing on inter-Asian education mobility – a theme that so far has been given little attention even though access to education has long been the reason for migration and mobility. Many Asian youths travel abroad and study in their neighbouring countries - however, the interest has most often been on the increased numbers of young people from Asian countries who obtain higher education in Western countries. By taking a perspective that situates individuals at the centre this study investigates young people’s strategies, experiences and visions in different Asian contexts. Particular interest is paid to power hierarchies based on class, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Theoretical the project employs the concept of social transnational fields and draws inspiration from cultural, migration, global, and gender studies, as well as postcolonial theory. Six researchers are involved in the project and carry out fieldwork among students who study in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Thailand and Turkey and the students come from neighbouring Asian countries. The research group collaborates in the development of theory and methodology. Disciplines represented in the study are Islamic studies, sociology, anthropology and history. The students’/the subjects’ experiences are in the centre of the research and through the use of life stories as its research methodology, the research group approaches transnational mobility in a unique way. Furthermore a so-called soft comparison is used, contrasting the material in order to generate mutual interpretative advantages. The academic importance of the project lies in its theoretical and methodological approach, but also in the empirical data it generates. The overall aim of the project is dealing with the transnational space and values that govern the various study options and strategies – how students regard the “homeland” and “host” country – the importance of gender, ethnicity and how students are affected by mobility as part of the their own social, political and religious context. At the workshop all six researchers in the project will present some preliminary results based on recent field data and discuss what kind of themes and intersecting aspects we are trying to involve when approaching the students in using life stories. Likewise discuss possibilities/difficulties in conducting a multi-sited interdisciplinary study. In addition to the researchers in the project we hope for at least 10-20 persons to participate in the discussion.
The purpose of this article is to present and analyse gender sensitive interpretations of Islam i... more The purpose of this article is to present and analyse gender sensitive interpretations of Islam in Indonesia and a reform of fiqh from a gender perspective. These interpretations can be seen as an expression of Islamic feminism, a discursive framework that has grown from the Islamisation processes of Muslim societies in the 1980s. Another aim is to depict the specific Indonesian environment where these ideas have evolved. Firstly, the domestic feminist movement and the influence of international feminist scholars of Islam. Secondly, the liberal approach in Islamic thinking promoted by Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurrahman Wahid and especially their emphasize on the importance of context in the endeavour of ijtihad, independent reasoning or interpretation of the Islamic scriptures. Thirdly, the increase and reform of higher Islamic education and not least the high percentage of female students and scholars. In conclusion, I will present and analyse gender sensitive interpretations of Islam by Indonesian scholars as part of an Islamic feminist discourse. The focus is on what these interpreters actually say and how they relate to tradition – universal Islamic and local Indonesian – in order to legitimise their ideas, but also shortly on how their ideas are used and perceived in Indonesian society. These interpretations can be regarded as Indonesian conceptualizations of Islamic feminism, or to put it differently, interpretations of text in context. (Less)
This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid... more This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. Nurcholish developed a contextual approach both to the Qur'an and to a variety of other sources from Muslim history. In this regard the "Constitution of Madinah" and the works of Ibn Taymiyya had been of particular importance. Nurcholish's understanding of Ibn Taymiyya, for example, was instrumental in the formation of his own inclusive view of religion; however, such an understanding of Ibn Taymiyya is not common. Throughout his career Nurcholish attempted to negotiate Islam and modernity by way of a contextual and collective ijtihad...
Nurcholish Madjid is a man in his early sixties. He was born and raised in the Eastern part of Ja... more Nurcholish Madjid is a man in his early sixties. He was born and raised in the Eastern part of Java where traditional Islam has its stronghold, but since many years he is living and working in Jakarta. He has a solid and double education which means he is educated both in traditional Islamic schools and secular universities in Indonesia, as well as having a Ph.D in Islamic studies
Denna islamologiska avhandling diskuterar och analyserar den islamtolkning som gjorts av den musl... more Denna islamologiska avhandling diskuterar och analyserar den islamtolkning som gjorts av den muslimske tänkaren Nurcholish Madjid i Indonesien. Nurcholish ¬ som nyligen dog vid sextisex års ålder - har bidragit till reformeringen av islamiskt tänkande i Indonesien i över trettio ...
Tvarsnitt Humanistisk Och Samhallsvetenskaplig Forskning, 2011
I Indonesien pagar en livlig aktivitet kring hur man bor tolka kvinnors rattigheter inom den musl... more I Indonesien pagar en livlig aktivitet kring hur man bor tolka kvinnors rattigheter inom den muslimska laran. Insikten om genus betydelse star hogt pa agendan inom forskning och utbildning; vid flera universitet skrivs kursplaner och kurslitteratur utifran ett genusperspektiv. Aven utanfor akademien pagar islambaserat arbete for att starka kvinnors rattigheter. Ett exempel ar information om hiv och trafficking. Men skillnaderna mellan olika platser ar stora och pa manga stallen har den patriarkala kulturen fortfarande starkt faste.
This article argues that the ongoing introduction of a gender perspective in Indonesian Islamic e... more This article argues that the ongoing introduction of a gender perspective in Indonesian Islamic education is challenging the partially unconscious patriarchal gender regime of these institutions and a means of resisting traditional notions of religious authority. The activities of female teachers, scholars and researchers are instrumental in these endeavors. This study draws on empirical material collected through fieldwork in Jakarta, Yogyakarta, Makassar, Banjarmasin, and Bandung, and includes brochures, books, course literature, research, interviews, and discussions. Data is primarily collected from state institutes for higher Islamic education and especially at their respective Centers for Women Studies. This material constitutes examples of how female, and male, religious scholars and teachers challenge the prevailing gender bias in Islamic education on all levels by introducing a gender perspective in curriculum, teaching, and textbooks, but also in their roles as exemplars an...
This study explores the linguistic aspects of the jihadi culture and highlights the discursive ro... more This study explores the linguistic aspects of the jihadi culture and highlights the discursive role of classical Arabic within jihadism. It builds on literature on Jihadi culture and contributes to it by empirically analyzing the case of Islamic State linguistic traditions archeologically and genealogically. The study concludes that the use of classical Arabic constitutes one of the pillars of the cultural structure of the jihadi culture. Classical Arabic does play an important role in the jihadi culture leaning towards a literalist approach to religious texts, and hence to adopt violence. However, the study denies any essentialist relation between classical Arabic and jihadi culture through presenting a historical sketch of the language as an element in a variety of other contexts.
It specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic Studies i... more It specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic Studies in general, and is intended to communicate original researches and current issues on the subject. is journal warmly welcomes contributions from scholars of related disciplines.
TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 2015
This article discusses eleven Southeast Asian students’ transnational mobility in order to obtain... more This article discusses eleven Southeast Asian students’ transnational mobility in order to obtain higher education at an Islamic university in Jakarta. A life story approach has been used and semi-structured and interviewee-oriented interviews have been carried out in the field, as well as on the internet. The focus is not only on the students’ individual experiences, such as educational background, strategies in mobility, prevailing life conditions, educational objectives, and future plans, but also on why they chose international Islamic studies in Jakarta and how they evaluate the education offered there. Gender constitutes an overall empirical and analytical aspect of this article, taking into account the prevailing gender order, or norm, in the students’ homelands and families, as well as gender regimes, or relations, in the educational and social environment in Jakarta. These students have mixed backgrounds regarding nationality, class, parents’ education, gendered and religio...
Gea Gender and Education Association Conference April 11 13 Goteborg Theme Gender and Democracy Gender Research in Times of Change, 2012
Transnational mobility in higher education within Asia – Strategies and educational conditions am... more Transnational mobility in higher education within Asia – Strategies and educational conditions among young people related to gender, ethnicity and class. This workshop mainly invites to a methodological discussion within an ongoing interdisciplinary project focusing on inter-Asian education mobility – a theme that so far has been given little attention even though access to education has long been the reason for migration and mobility. Many Asian youths travel abroad and study in their neighbouring countries - however, the interest has most often been on the increased numbers of young people from Asian countries who obtain higher education in Western countries. By taking a perspective that situates individuals at the centre this study investigates young people’s strategies, experiences and visions in different Asian contexts. Particular interest is paid to power hierarchies based on class, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Theoretical the project employs the concept of social transnational fields and draws inspiration from cultural, migration, global, and gender studies, as well as postcolonial theory. Six researchers are involved in the project and carry out fieldwork among students who study in India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Middle East, Thailand and Turkey and the students come from neighbouring Asian countries. The research group collaborates in the development of theory and methodology. Disciplines represented in the study are Islamic studies, sociology, anthropology and history. The students’/the subjects’ experiences are in the centre of the research and through the use of life stories as its research methodology, the research group approaches transnational mobility in a unique way. Furthermore a so-called soft comparison is used, contrasting the material in order to generate mutual interpretative advantages. The academic importance of the project lies in its theoretical and methodological approach, but also in the empirical data it generates. The overall aim of the project is dealing with the transnational space and values that govern the various study options and strategies – how students regard the “homeland” and “host” country – the importance of gender, ethnicity and how students are affected by mobility as part of the their own social, political and religious context. At the workshop all six researchers in the project will present some preliminary results based on recent field data and discuss what kind of themes and intersecting aspects we are trying to involve when approaching the students in using life stories. Likewise discuss possibilities/difficulties in conducting a multi-sited interdisciplinary study. In addition to the researchers in the project we hope for at least 10-20 persons to participate in the discussion.
The purpose of this article is to present and analyse gender sensitive interpretations of Islam i... more The purpose of this article is to present and analyse gender sensitive interpretations of Islam in Indonesia and a reform of fiqh from a gender perspective. These interpretations can be seen as an expression of Islamic feminism, a discursive framework that has grown from the Islamisation processes of Muslim societies in the 1980s. Another aim is to depict the specific Indonesian environment where these ideas have evolved. Firstly, the domestic feminist movement and the influence of international feminist scholars of Islam. Secondly, the liberal approach in Islamic thinking promoted by Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurrahman Wahid and especially their emphasize on the importance of context in the endeavour of ijtihad, independent reasoning or interpretation of the Islamic scriptures. Thirdly, the increase and reform of higher Islamic education and not least the high percentage of female students and scholars. In conclusion, I will present and analyse gender sensitive interpretations of Islam by Indonesian scholars as part of an Islamic feminist discourse. The focus is on what these interpreters actually say and how they relate to tradition – universal Islamic and local Indonesian – in order to legitimise their ideas, but also shortly on how their ideas are used and perceived in Indonesian society. These interpretations can be regarded as Indonesian conceptualizations of Islamic feminism, or to put it differently, interpretations of text in context. (Less)
This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid... more This dissertation in the field of Islamic studies offers a critical analysis of Nurcholish Madjid's attempt to interpret Islam within the framework of modern Indonesia. Nurcholish, who recently passed away at the age of sixty-six, had been active in the reform of Islamic thought for over thirty years, and while remaining deeply coloured by the local Indonesian context, was also part of a global and century-old tradition of reform. Nurcholish developed a contextual approach both to the Qur'an and to a variety of other sources from Muslim history. In this regard the "Constitution of Madinah" and the works of Ibn Taymiyya had been of particular importance. Nurcholish's understanding of Ibn Taymiyya, for example, was instrumental in the formation of his own inclusive view of religion; however, such an understanding of Ibn Taymiyya is not common. Throughout his career Nurcholish attempted to negotiate Islam and modernity by way of a contextual and collective ijtihad...
Nurcholish Madjid is a man in his early sixties. He was born and raised in the Eastern part of Ja... more Nurcholish Madjid is a man in his early sixties. He was born and raised in the Eastern part of Java where traditional Islam has its stronghold, but since many years he is living and working in Jakarta. He has a solid and double education which means he is educated both in traditional Islamic schools and secular universities in Indonesia, as well as having a Ph.D in Islamic studies
Denna islamologiska avhandling diskuterar och analyserar den islamtolkning som gjorts av den musl... more Denna islamologiska avhandling diskuterar och analyserar den islamtolkning som gjorts av den muslimske tänkaren Nurcholish Madjid i Indonesien. Nurcholish ¬ som nyligen dog vid sextisex års ålder - har bidragit till reformeringen av islamiskt tänkande i Indonesien i över trettio ...
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