%0 Journal Article
%@ 2231-8534
%A Marhumah, Ema
%D 2019
%F digilib:34380
%I Universiti Putra Malaysia Press
%J PERTANIKA
%K Gender, hadith, Indonesian Progressive  Muslims, Islamic intellectualism
%N 1
%P 405-417
%T Hadith, Justice, and Gender Equality: Indonesian Progressive  Muslims’ Thought
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/34380/
%V 27
%X This article explores Indonesian progressive Muslims’ thought on Hadith and gender. It  particularly focuses on analyzing the following questions. 1) What is the construction  of the Indonesian progressive Muslims’ thoughts on Hadith and gender? and 2) What  is their Hadith hermeneutics; i.e., methods, principles, approaches? The thinking and  the works of two prominent Indonesian Muslim reformers, Husein Muhammad and Siti  Musdah Mulia, who have significantly contributed to the contemporary development of  Islamic intellectualism and gender justice in Indonesia, will be explored in this study. Both  Muhammad and Mulia essentially question the authenticity of the misogynist Hadiths as  they contradict with the principles of gender equality and justice established in the Qur’an and the Prophet’s tradition. Accordingly, both have called for a reformation in understanding  the Hadiths in favour of gender equality and justice. It is fundamental that the Hadiths  have to be understood within their socio-historical context. Their hermeneutics lie in the  analysis of the chain of transmitter (naqd al-isnad) and the substance of Hadith’s wordings  or reports (naqd al-matn). These are not relatively new although previous Hadith scholars  have used such methods with some limitations  Keywords: Gender, hadith, Indonesian Progressive  Muslims, Islamic intellectualism