Inayah Rohmaniyah

• Professor
• Dean at Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta

Sasak society is renowned for its adherence to moral principles, humanism, and strong religious beliefs. Nevertheless, several research indicate the persistent existence of gender discrimination, particularly targeting women. This study seeks to examine the formation of the concept of 'being a woman' in Sasak culture, encompassing its many manifest...

Michael E. Pregill argues that the story in Surah Thāhā: 83-97 reflects an interpretation trend of a story in the Bible, thriving among Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity, about Israelites who worshipped the golden calf. Pergill also argues about the intertextuality between the Qur’an and Bible. This study aims to comprehensively examine Pregill...

Recently, the issue of sexuality in Islamic bioethics has often led to discrimination on gender issues, especially against women. The model for reading religious texts influenced by patriarchal culture and the massive development of health technology are allegedly the two reasons for this problem. This article examines sexuality in the discourse of...

Masyarakat Aceh yang dikenal akan budaya dan Syariat Islam ternyata masi memiliki kasus kekerasan yang tinggi dan subordinasi terhadap perempuan dalam rumah tangga. Terbukti dari masayraakat menganggap beberapa kebijakan yang tertera dalam Qanun Jinayat terkesan memberatkan kaum perempuan. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk melihat persepsi masayarakat Ac...

This paper explores the public perception of perpetrators of domestic violence in West Mapilli. This study aims to determine the forms of domestic violence in West Mapilli, what factors influence the occurrence of domestic violence, then what are the implications of the perpetrators on domestic violence in West Mapilli. The type of research conduct...

Women become decisive agents in building resilience and community recovery in times of crisis, as happened in Bengkulu Province. One of the serious crises that society has recently faced has occurred due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The crisis arose due to various factors and the pandemic further exacerbated the impact of the crisis, even after the pa...

The network of Indonesian Women’s Ulema under KUPI has emerged to become a new reform in a religious landscape tinted with masculine domination. This paper aims to explain the KUPI’s conceptual hermeneutical framework in producing religious interpretations and the implication of the approach on constructing inclusive gender norms and practices. Thi...

The struggle of the Indonesian Women Ulama Congress Network (KUPI) to reclaim the authority of female ulama in Indonesia has facilitated the emergence of a new trend in a religious domain that has traditionally been male-dominated and marginalized women. This paper aims to explore three methods of struggle adopted by the KUPI network to reclaim wom...

The Government of Indonesia has legally revoked the legal status of the Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) organization, yet thousands of HTI members have embraced strong group identities and systematic resistance strategies. This article reveals the effectiveness of the Government’s efforts and their impact on the sustainability or discontinuity of the...

This study tries to see the existence of women in Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia in Gorontalo after the issuance of Perppu No. 2 of 2017. Based on qualitative research, wherein data is obtained through interviews and focus group discussions, the results of the study found that members of the HTI Muslimah group, as individuals undergo a process of deperson...

The article explores theological, normative and sexual construction as well as the power relation and its contesta- tion that contribute to the perpetuation of the hegemony of patriarchal discourse on early marriage. It also discloses the mechanism of knowledge power that operates in the discourse of the issue. The phenomenon of early marriage illu...

This paper examines the concept of (public) sin as well as efforts to counteract sin from the perspective of Islam. The understanding that hisba, the prohibition of vice and enjoining of virtues, are a responsibility of both the state and the community is common in historical and contemporary Muslim societies. Where the state cannot or does not pro...

Deconstructs the common assumption that Sufism is peaceful and Salafism is violent.

This paper is concerned with two faces of Hadhrami dakwah in post-New Order Indonesia. One is that of Habib Syech bin Abulkadir Assegaf (Habib Syech) who promotes traditional Sufi piety and opposes religious and political violence. The other is that of Al-Habib Muhammad Rizieq bin Hussein Syihab (Habib Rizieq), one of the founders of Front Pembela...

Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS, The Justice and Prosperity Party) is the largest Islamist political party in Indonesia. It has roots in the religious and political and religious teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood and promotes what Oliver Roy calls "deculturized religion." The party can be understood as the political component of a larger social mo...

This paper concerns the social and ritual construction of social identities at Pondok Pesantren Madrasah Wathoniyah Islamiyah (PPMWI), a theologically Wahhabi oriented pesantren (traditional Islamic school) in Central Java, Indonesia. We focus on the inter-play of religious and secular symbols in the school’s graduation ceremonies (wisuda) for seco...

In this paper, we utilize feature extraction and model-fitting techniques to process the rhetoric found in the web sites of 23 Indonesian Islamic religious organizations to profile their ideology and activity patterns along a hypothesized radical/counter-radical scale, and present an end-to-end system that is able to help researchers to visualize t...

The paper refutes the linkage of Muslim education in Indonesia with radicalization, and addresses the commonly held, if incorrect, perception that theological conservatism has a causal relationship with violent extremism. Rather than a causal agent for extremism, Muslim education in Indonesia tends to operate as a protective mechanism against radic...

This paper concerns the practice of, and discourse concerning child marriage and polygamy in contemporary Indonesia and the religious, social, and political contexts in which they are located. It focuses on the tale of Pujiono Cahyo Widayanto, who is more commonly knoum as Sheikh Puji, and his child bride Umi Hani Lutfiana Ulfa that has reverberate...

This paper explores the concept of spirituality and its relation to feminism, and investigates feminist critics upon religion and women's spirituality in the history of institutionalized religion. It eventually examines the important role of Muslim women's reading on the authenticity of women's spirituality in Islam. Spirituality has to do with an...