Arif Maftuhin

• Doctor
• Professor (Full) at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta

Since ratifying the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of Persons with disabilities), Indonesia has witnessed developments in promoting the rights of people with disabilities. Public policies and civil organizations make their respective contributions. Muhammadiyah responded favorably by issuing a comprehensive fatwa on Islam and disability in 2020, co...

This article aims to answer one of the essential questions in the implementation and promotion of inclusive education in Indonesia, particularly inclusive higher education. Referring to the case of the State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, this research seeks to show the success of inclusive education in higher education through...

Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University (UIN Sunan Kalijaga) Yogyakarta declared its commitment to become an inclusive university in 2007 with the establishment of its Centre for Disability Studies and Services (now Centre for Disability Services). As a higher education institution, this commitment should be reflected on its organizational structur...

This paper aims at exploring sociological theories of body as an alternative approach for developing interdisciplinary Islamic studies. Three importants poinst are made trough reviewing relevant theories and literatures. First, it offers understanding of the new development in sociological theories of the body. Second, it gives emphasize on, and el...

p>Penelitian ini berawal dari upaya UIN Sunan Kalijaga untuk mewujudkan pendidikan tinggi inklusif. Tujuan penelitian untuk mengidentifikasi hambatan-hambatan mahasiswa difabel dalam mengikuti program KKN (Kuliah Kerja Nyata). Penelitian mengambil kasus KKN Angkatan 93 yang diselenggarakan pada Juli-Agustus 2017 dan diikuti oleh delapan mahasiswa d...

Perkumpulan Ahli Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam merupakan organisasi profesi keahlian bagi Penyuluh serta Konselor Islam, sekaligus organisasi yang memediasi Program Studi- Program Studi BPI/BKI (Bimbingandan Penyuluhan Islam serta Bimbingan dan Konseling Islam di selurug Indonesia. Organisasi ini menjadi jawaban yang bisa mengakomodir berbagai piha...

Tulisan ini menjawab pertanyaan tentang apa yang disebut kota inklusif dan indikatornya. Secara akademik, nyaris tidak ada studi tentang ‘kota inklusif’. Padahal, dalam praktik, sudah banyak daerah yang berusaha menjadi, atau mengklaim diri, sebagai “kota inklusif”. Studi dalam artikel ini bersifat literer karena bertujuan menemukan gagasan dan lan...

Tārīkh al-Tashrī‘ (the history of sharia affairs) is a relatively new genre of Islamic historiography and very popular among students of Islamic Law. Despite its popularity, academics of Islamic historiography seem not interested in studying it. There is hardly any academic paper seriously studied the literature. This paper is a first effort to exp...

The research is about the ‘struggle’ to name persons with disabilities in Indonesia. As in other countries that find naming as an important tool in the fight for equality, Indonesia witnessed various naming influenced by the way people see disability and persons with disability. The research is aimed at understanding which naming that is more popul...

This study was inspired by a project in the United States called “accessible congregation”, a project that promotes accessibility in the places of worshsip. While idea of “accessible congregation” is not less known in Indonesia, it is important to study how accessible are Indonesian mosques. Modifying what are considered to be more relevant indicat...

Isu jilbab di Indonesia banyak memiliki perbedaan bila dibandingkan dengan isu semisal di Timur Tengah. Di Indonesia, perdebatannya adalah antara mereka yang “mau mengenakan” dan mereka yang “tidak mau mengenakan”. Sedangkan di dunia Arab, perdebatannya adalah antara mereka yang “mau mempertahankan” dengan yang “mau menanggalkan” (hijâb versus sufû...

Thus far the views of experts of Islamic jurisprudence regarding homosexuality have been very clear in forbidding it. The Alqur'an, Hadith and Ijma' are the bases of the prohibition on marriages of this kind, although jurists differ in their views on the punishment for homosexual behaviour. Malik, ash-Shafi'i and Ahmad equate the punishment for hom...