From Irwan Abdullah's research, we can a very interesting phenomenon, namely, that Muslim traders in Jatinom [a small town in Klaten, Central Java] can replace the position of Chinese traders and be successful traders until now. To know about their success, Irwan Abdullah conducted a research by studying three interrelated factors: 1)the role of religion in supporting trading activities; 2)trad…
Globalization era is the reality that we ought to face it. The ongoing changes and some problems of education as the impact of globalization must be faced and solved as well as possible both on discourse and concrete or action policy phases. Inevitably, the Islamic education will be involved and insisted to be able to give a significant contribution. This paper describes urgency of the Islamic …
In the perspective of Qur'an and Sunnah, zakah is a worship of wealth; which has a strategic role to increase welfare and to alleviate proverty if it is organized by a professional, responsible, and transparent zakah's organizer ['amil]. Based on several researches, the prospect of zakah collection in Indonesia is approximately between 19 to 32 trilion IDR annualty. Meanwhile, the number of po…
This paper aims to focus on whether the economic behavior can be influenced by the predominant religious belief, the role of Islamic principles in Muslim societies nowadays. But most of all is about potential of this shared values to fight proverty in the country like Indonesia, belonging to the so called developing world. The massive trend of capitalisme during the Soeharto rezim has brought n…
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan tes kemampuan memahami teks akademik berbahasa Inggris. Untuk itu dirancang dua tahap kalibrasi. Tahap I, seperangkat tes yang dikembangkan berdasarkan konstruk kemampuan memahami teks dan direviu pakar dikalibrasi pada 1000 responden dan hasilnya dianalisis berturut-turut menggunakan analisis butir klasik, analisis respons butir model logistik 3 par…
This paper is aimed at discussing the nation of endowment as a means to increase the economic prosperity of the Muslim society in Indonesia. It argues that the Muslims of Indonesia have enough endowed properties but lack a proper management in running them. This leads to the misuse of the properties on the one hand, and to the failure to achieve the proposed aims for which these properties are …
This idea of Islamic state and leadership has long been a subject of debate. But it remains intriguing to ask once and again what does Islamic state mean and what is its real and true nature?what does leadership mean and does Islam really need politics? This paper is designed mainly to answer these important questions. It will trace the ideal form of politics in Islam by investigating the formu…
This paper deals with the problem of child protection from an Islamic perspective. It starts by discussing the Islamic teaching concerning family values and the function of family in child education as well as the responbility of the family in protecting the children. By extension the paper is also concerned with the idea of marriage, its meaning and function in social life. We base our analysi…
This article analyses the character and nature of succession in the Pre-Islamic Arabic society and in the period of al Khulafa al Rashidin. It assumes that both periods share a lot in common in terms of conditions of leadership, which include seniority, bravery, generosityu, good and noble family background, and the ability to safeguard the tribe. The principle of consultation [mushawarah], whi…
Artikel ini bertujuan untuk memaparkan konsep atau ide dasar dari asuransi dalam sudut pandang Islam. Dalam artikel ini, dibahas mengenai sekilas tentang definisi asuransi, antara asuransi konvensional dengan asuransi Islami [takaful], kebijakan dalam takaful, perkembangan takaful, dan kontribusi dari takaful.ifa.