Tata Negara dan Peradaban Islam: Antara Cita-cita dan Ilusi

Abstract

The majority of Moslem communities aspire to revive Islam as a prominent civilization to catch up with Western civilization. However, as we seen that there is a politic of Islamic-fundamentalists group who represent Islam as a religion with its rigorous face both towards non-Moslems as well as Moslems whose religious thought and scientific/philosophical discourse was regarded as conflicting with their Islamic understanding. Meanwhile, the political Islam and fundamentalist orthodoxies and various autocracy and quasi-democracy that rules in Islamic World, were and still concerned more with outward models of religious piety and obedience aimed at confirming that Islamic govermentality does exist in their society. Unfortunately, the imposing of outward norms and rules cannot become a stage for retrieving the inward ethics or Islamic spiritual dimension, from which the drive for a new civilization could emerge as ever did in and was realized by Islam Nusantara in its early formation by the Saints and Sufis. Thus, the Moslems have to gather the inward resources of their religion to produce its outward presence of civilizational power, otherwise they—the reformist or the fundamentalist—will be forced to surrender to the dominant of Western civilizational order which has given up to a secularization process. In this case, they are faced the dilemma between the need to preserve the moral equilibrium among themselves as demanded by Islam and the success requirements as demanded by modern world. This dilemma has resulted in the Moslem face what its called a cultural schizophrenia.