eprintid: 57562
rev_number: 7
eprint_status: archive
userid: 111
dir: disk0/00/05/75/62
datestamp: 2023-03-30 04:43:02
lastmod: 2023-03-30 04:43:02
status_changed: 2023-03-30 04:43:02
type: article
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Sunarwoto, -
title: Negotiating Salafī Islam and the State:
The Madkhaliyya in Indonesia
ispublished: pub
subjects: _islam
divisions: artkl
full_text_status: public
keywords: Salafī Islam –
Salafism – Madkhaliyya – Indonesia – government – walī l-amr –
education – loyalism
abstract: 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.
date: 2020
date_type: published
publication: DIE WELT  DES  ISLAMS
pagerange: 205-234
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Sunarwoto, -  (2020) Negotiating Salafī Islam and the State: The Madkhaliyya in Indonesia.  DIE WELT DES ISLAMS.  pp. 205-234.      
document_url: https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/57562/1/15700607-DieWeltdesIslamsNegotiatingSalafIslamandtheState_TheMadkhaliyyainIndonesia.pdf