Negotiating Salafī Islam and the State: The Madkhaliyya in Indonesia
The focus of this article is on the Salafiyya-Madkhaliyya in Indonesia, which takes its name from Saudi scholar Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī. After an account of how they emerged and developed in Indonesia, the relationship of the Madkhalīs with the state, which is based on a “fiqh of obedience”, is analyzed....
| Published in: | Die Welt des Islams |
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| Subtitles: | Challenges from "The Periphery"? - Salafī Islam Outside the Arab World : Spotlights on Wider Asia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2020, Volume: 60, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 205-234 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Madchalismus
/ Indonesia
/ State
/ Secularism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Salafism
B Loyalism B walī l-amr B Education B Government B Madkhaliyya B Salafī Islam B Indonesia |
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| Summary: | The focus of this article is on the Salafiyya-Madkhaliyya in Indonesia, which takes its name from Saudi scholar Rabīʿ al-Madkhalī. After an account of how they emerged and developed in Indonesia, the relationship of the Madkhalīs with the state, which is based on a “fiqh of obedience”, is analyzed. It is argued that, while this legal underpinning necessitates that they give total loyalty to the ruler (walī l-amr, or ūlū l-amr), the Indonesian Madkhalīs are unable to entirely follow this principle. The Madkhalīs have had to come to terms with the fact that Indonesia follows a democratic system, which, in fact, prevents the comprehensive accommodation of their Salafī principles. The resulting ambiguities prove difficult to solve. It is argued here that the negotiation between Madkhalī Salafīs and the Indonesian state is characterized by the constant efforts of the former to tackle those ambiguities. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Die Welt des Islams
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700607-06023P03 |