Islamic Textbooks Research Articles

Future-Readiness and Islamic Education: Perspectives from Singapore

Abstract: This article explores the relation between future-readiness and Islamic education from the perspectives of Islamic learning centers in Singapore. The main research objective is to examine how the concept of future-readiness and related terms are interpreted, framed, and facilitated in Islamic textbooks. Based on a content analysis of the textbooks used at Islamic learning centers for primary students in Singapore, two research findings are reported. First, the Islamic textbooks interpret future-readiness as equipping Muslim learners with Islamic knowledge and values as well as application and learnercenteredness in the modern world. Second, the Islamic textbooks promote information and communications technology (ICT) as part of preparing students for future-readiness. A major implication from this study is that Islamic curricula evolve in tandem with changing times to support the development of future-ready students. In addition, the advancement of future-readiness is situated within an Islamic worldview that emphasizes religious beliefs and values. A significant limitation of this study is that its research method centered on an analysis of textbooks; hence, empirical research is recommended to corroborate the research findings and implications.

Problematika Pembelajaran Kitab Kuning Di Pondok Pesantren Hasan Jufri

Islamic book learning is the core of education in pesantren, including Hasan Jufri Islamic Boarding School. However, this learning process faces various problems that hinder the effectiveness and achievement of the ability to read Islamic books for Muslim students. This study aims to identify the problems faced in the learning of Islamic books at Pondok Pesantren Hasan Jufri, including aspects of teaching methods, class division, the role of ustadz, and the motivation of Muslim students. This research used a descriptive qualitative approach with data collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and focus group discussions (FGDs). The results showed that the main problems include the class placement of Muslim students not based on qualifications, the implementation of the sorogan method that is not optimal, the limited number of ustadz mukim, and the low interest and motivation of Muslim students to learn. In addition, time and learning of Islamic textbooks remain a significant challenge. This study recommends the development of more varied learning methods, the use of technology, grouping classes based on test qualifications, and increasing the role of ustadz in supporting the teaching and learning process. The findings are expected to be a reference to improve the effectiveness of learning Islamic books and maintain the relevance of education in Pondok Pesantren Hasan Jufri.

Islamic Feminists’ Rejection of the Textual Understanding of Misogynistic Hadiths for the Advancement of Gender Justice in Makassar, Indonesia

Islam is a religion that upholds the values of justice and equal rights between men and women, but the understanding of the Indonesian Muslim community is still wrong with the teachings of Islam. One of the reasons includes misunderstanding of misogynistic hadiths, namely hadiths that editorially seem to demean women. This study aims to explore Islamic feminists’ rejection of the textual understanding of misogynistic hadiths to uphold gender justice. This Islamic feminist stance needs to receive support so that gender justice is in line with Islamic law. This research uses empirical qualitative methods by analyzing the theory of understanding hadith and gender theory. The study obtained data from interviews and a literature review. The respondents interviewed were academics, NGO activists, and community leaders, while the literature included journal articles, books, and Islamic textbooks on Islamic law. The study took place in Makassar City, Indonesia from September 2022 to March 2023. Findings reveal that Islamic feminists in Makassar City criticize the textual interpretations of misogynistic hadiths as they demean women’s dignity and are not in accordance with the values of Islamic teachings. If analyzed from a gender perspective, Islamic feminists have played an important role in fighting for gender equality in a religious context. Meanwhile, in the context of hadith understanding theory, a contextual approach is needed to provide a comprehensive understanding of society so that gender justice is realized. The contribution of this study is that the Islamic feminist perspective that reviews misogynistic hadith through a contextual approach helps provide inspiration and direction for other efforts to encourage social change and gender justice.

Intolerance in Islamic textbooks: The quest for an Islamic teaching model for Indonesian schools

Intolerance in Islamic textbooks: The quest for an Islamic teaching model for Indonesian schools

IDEOLOGICAL TRAP IN EDUCATION: Rivalry Discourse on Islamic Literatures in NW and Salafi Schools in Lombok

This study aimed to analyze the ideological contestation between the Nahdlatul Wathan (NW) as a local Islamic group and Salafis as a transnational Islamic group in the Islamic literature, which is utilized as teaching materials in NW and Salafi schools. The rivalry between these two religious groups become a novel phenomenon in Lombok together with the increasing influence of the Salafi group. The success of Salafis in promoting the manhaj salaf, which in many ways contradicts the Aswaja promoted by NW in Islamic practice, has implications for the strengthening of the ideological content in Islamic textbooks in their respective schools. Based on the identification of literature books utilized as teaching materials, as analyzed based on the contestation theory by Antje Wiener and apparatuses of ideology theory by Louis Althusser, this study argues that religious literature used as teaching materials in Islamic schools is an instrument of ideological trapping of religious groups to generate apparatuses of ideology to win the contestation. The teaching materials contain negation of one another, mono-interpretation, and misleading one another. Finally, students only accept particular religious understandings indoctrination without being taught to think critically regarding different religious perspectives. In this context, a state polyce is needed to makesure that the higher order thinking skills of students have been developing, rather than ideological traping of certain Islamic group.

Human Resource Procurement in Pesantren? Insight from Pesantren Sirojuth Tholibin

Human resource procurement is one of the essential stages of organizational decision-making. The scope of procurement consists of planning, recruitment, selection, placement, and orientation of new personnel. Human resources studied in this research are situated in Pesantren comprising of the committee or board; teachers of kitab kuning (classical Arabic Islamic textbook) either with sorogan or bandongan methods; teachers of reciting and memorizing Al-Qur’an; persons in charge of media such as website, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, magazines, and newsletters of Sirojuth Tholibin both. Sirojuth Tholibin commonly used a bottom-up approach in human resources planning. As a part of the planning process, The institution usually combines unstructured interview and observation methods in job analysis. In recruitment and selection, Sirojuth Tholibin pays more attention to behavioral competencies over technical competencies. Recruitment of committee and teachers usually carried out through the employee referral method. Those recruited and selected are recommendations from previous administrators who understand the background of potential candidates. The placement of new human resources is made based on their respective competencies. Orientation is the responsibility of each department, and the duration is according to the speed of each new individual in capturing new knowledge related to their jobs. The weakness of human resources procurement in Sirojuth Tholibin has no formal written job description and job specification. There is also a lack of management information systems of human resource procurement.

Nilai-Nilai Anti Korupsi dalam Buku Teks Pendidikan Agama Islam dan Budi Pekerti Sekolah Menengah Atas

In tackling corruption in Indonesia there needs to be concrete preventive efforts, one of these efforts is through the education sector. Investing in anti-corruption values carried out consistently and continuously will foster students' personality attitudes, this can be done by integrating these values into a subject, one of the subjects that focus on the growth and development of student attitudes is the subject of Islamic education and character. This type of research is Library Research. The documentation technique is used in collecting data. Content analysis is applied in analyzing data that has been collected. As well as the deductive thinking patterns used in this study. The objects in this study are Islamic education textbooks and character published by the Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia in grade 10, 11, and 12. The results showed that all anti-corruption values recommended by the Ministry of Education and Culture were sufficiently implicit in implicit Islamic textbooks in Islamic education and high school character traits. The form of disclosure of anti-corruption values is reflected through the subject of wetting, expressions, description of a story, forms of events that occur in the environment everyday, in the form of sentences, verses of the Al-Qur’an and the Hadits of the Prophet Muhammad, as well as images contains messages from a material

Language and Madrasa in India, Uttar Pradesh.

Data India shows that Muslim population in India, at the census 2001, was in second place after Hindus. It reached 138 million (13.4%) after Hindus which is little over 827 million (80.5%). This number implies how Islam has been well-received in India and entered into various areas of life including education. Muslim Educational System in India has developed over decades through its Islamic institution and madrasas. This study aims to see the language teaching in Darul Uloom, Deoband as it is reflected through its educational system and curriculum. This is a library based research in which extensive reviews of literature has been made in attempt to produce a descriptive qualitative analysis. This study shows that in Darul Uloom Deoband, stylized writing mastery has become the ultimate skills to acquire.here, Language is not only merely targeted as a means of communication but also as a means to study Islamic textbooks. Moreover, it is expected that through the language mastery its students and alumni can be author of many books in Arabic and English. Language is learned comprehensively started from grammar, syntax, to Literature. Keywords: Language, Madrasa, Darul Uloom Deoband

Pesantren Resistance to Modern Education System and It’s Implication to Culture of Learning: a Study on Pondok Pesantren Al-Is'af Kalabaan, Guluk-Guluk, Sumenep, Jawa Timur

<em>Pesantren</em> (Islamic boarding school) grew as traditional Islamic education institutions since the beginning of Islam arrival to Indonesia. The kiai in the traditional pesantren educated the student set of classical Islamic text books those organized by the method <em>sorogan</em> and <em>bandongan</em>. In the early 20<sup>th</sup> century, <em>pesantrens</em> have got challenge with school education system that introduced by Dutch Colonial Government in the first 1900s. The challenge to pesantren also came from Muslim Reformist which also performed modern educational system in their schools and madrasah. Facing the challenge, most of pesantren modernized their educational system by performing schools and madrasah affiliated to the Indonesian government. There were only a few pesantrens those rejected the of modern educational system. Pesantren al- Is’af rejected the school education system and had ben keeping the sustainability of traditional education of Islamic knowledge teaching learning. The rejection brought about the effort of the pesantren in sthrengtening teaching learning classical Islamic textbook (<em>kitab kuning</em>) with <em>sorogan</em> and <em>bandongan</em> methods. Some of the text books had taugt the rule of santri learning. There were many rules, norms and belief that resulted the culture of learning in <em>Pesantren</em>.

Developing Islamic English Instructional Materials Based on School-Based Curriculum

<p>This study was a research and development (R&D) which is basically aimed at developing English instructional materials based on School-based Curriculum for the first-year students of MAN Model Palangka Raya. This study involved: need analysis, reference study, material development, expert validation, try out (empirical validation), and revision. The data were gathered through observation, questionnaires, interview, and validation technique. The result of the need analysis shows that the students are in need of English instructional materials relevant to their major content needs and school characteristics. However, the existing English instructional materials used by the teachers and the first-grade students of MAN Model Palangka Raya as a senior high school with Islamic feature still served from available published course books which are too general and still do not reflect the need of the students and particular characteristics of the school. English instructional materials developed in this study is intended to develop English instructional materials which could provide a set of instructional materials to accomodate the Islamic characteristics and the needs of the first-year students of MAN Model Palangka Raya. For the purpose, the materials were adopted and adapted from some Islamic textbooks and Islamic reading websites.</p>