Slogan Back to the al-Quran and Sunnah: Studi atas Gerakan Politik Islam Jamaluddin al-Afghani

Abstract

This article will discuses the Islamic political movements of one the thinker renewal of Islamic modernism in the 19th century, namely is Jamaluddin al-Afghani (1839-1897). This study used historical approach, to understand and explore one's personality by looking at this socio-culture and intellectual background to social impression. This study found, first the political movement’sal-Afghani is very unique and different than another. Her movement to carried out in the frame of slogan “back to the al-Quran and the Sunnah” as response to the attitude of Muslims that are experiencing deterioration and decline, and a response to western imperialism in the Islamic world. al-Afghanito encourage of Muslims to united in the pan-Islamism. Second, al-Afghani uses the slogan “back to the al-Quran and the Sunnah” in his political movement as well as a spirit for the Muslims to re-ijtihad-sasi against, especially to the concepts of qada’ and qadar which are often misunderstood untill result in Muslims are trapped in an attitude of fatalism and static.