FIKIH INDONESIA: EPISTEMOLOGI SOSIO-KULTURAL

Abstract

Abstract Fiqh presents with the presence of Islamic studies that then is being practiced in the society. Fiqh epistemology in Indonesia as the Islamic law has characters and Indonesian special features either written or unwritten in the book of law. All this time, fiqh is still attached with cultural trademark and Middle-Eastern tradition. The socio-cultural condition of Indonesia society, however, gives contribution and historical setting of Islamic law in Indonesia so that fiqh reformation that is identical with Indonesian is the demand and the dynamic of modern Muslims nowadays. Fiqh as a necessity must be kept in touch with science as the integral part and takes into account to solve the modern problems through the update thought to form the Indonesian fiqh. The indigenization of fiqh holistically uses the various patterns and methods. The demand of updating fiqh already causes the reshuffle of fiqh epistemology from teosentrisme epistemology to antroposentrisme epistemology. Therefore, the contextualization of fiqh always follows the socio-cultural and development of human knowledge with various typology characteristics of society that are formed by its socio-culture and the culture around it. Hence, fiqh will be fresher than before to answer the new problems in modern society in Indonesian context.