FDIKOM UIN Jakarta Holds International Webinar

FDIKOM, UIN News Online – The Faculty of Da’wa and Communication Science (FDIKOM) UIN Jakarta holds international webinar titled “Islamic Moderation As Worldview” on Monday, (05/09/2022) through Zoom platform.

Present in the event, Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs Siti Napsiyah, Deputy Dean for Student Affairs Cecep Sastrawijaya,  Director of Graduate Program Washington University Aria Nakissa and Director of the Center for Peace and Empowerment Studies Rosita Tandos.

Siti napsiyah in her speech said that this webinar will discuss world views on Islamic moderation “Today, and we will have so many knowledge and information from the speakers“, said Siti Napsiyah.

As we know, Islamic moderation is a very complex matter. In which there are various historical debates that are quite long for approximately two centuries. Islamic moderation is not something that is only discussed in Indonesia, but also discussed in the United States, France, China, and other countries.

There are several ways to understand Islamic moderation. For example, in the Chinese context where some Chinese cultures experience assimilation, such as building a mosque on top of which has a dome or tower that looks like a temple. There are examples of contradictions that occur in Islamic moderation. As in the context of France which at that time required people not to wear the hijab in schools or public areas.

Aria Nakissa said that if we refer to the verses of ummatan wasatan or look at books on theology, they don't talk much about Islamic moderation. Because there are many contemporary debates or discussions about Islamic moderation that have emerged in the modern period and in certain contexts.

“What I want to do with today's talk is to clarify the complex context in which debates about Islamic moderation arise. So one one-dimensional element that I want to focus on could be called conceptual context. In fact, when we talk about Islamic moderation, there are three important projects that characterize modern Muslim countries or Muslim societies. When I say moslem societies in the modern period, I basically mean moslem societies over the past 200 years,” he said.

Another view is when European governments are advancing development projects, making new laws, supporting human rights, and there are also things that are against the Muslim world. The reactions of various Muslim groups to these things are what they call fanaticism. Where Muslims tend to maintain the traditional understanding of sharia and also tend to embrace jihad as a way to maintain their form of life.

In the end, this notion of moderation does not have a definite basis in the Qur'an and hadith, but the Islamic moderation is defined by various parties who study how it relates to the development agenda, history, and how things come from. We must place everything within the larger global political framework that has characterized Muslim societies for the last two centuries. (fdikom/ha/usa)