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Harun Nasution is one of the prominent Indonesian Muslim intellectuals who has played an influential role in rebuilding the traditional style of Islamic education thinking into rational thinking within the Islamic Higher Education environment in Indonesia. This study aspires to analyze Harun Nasution’s style of Islamic educational thought. The method used in this study is qualitative, which focuses on carrying out systematic presentations related to research questions to be analyzed in order to get results as conclusions. At the same time, this research uses a document analysis study approach. The study results show that Harun Nasution’s style of Islamic education is religious and rational. In this style of Islamic educational thought, there are several considerations, for instance, rational Islamic educational thinking, integrationist Islamic educational thinking, Islamic educational goals, Islamic educational materials, and Islamic educational methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Islamic economic development is a task incumbent upon a good Muslim community. Indonesia has, in recent years, accelerated its economic development -especially in the area of infrastructure development -thereby requiring additional funding sources to aid this development. Thus, the government has issued Project Based Sukuk (PBS), which aims to finance the development of the country’s infrastructure. PBS is a Shariah-based financing instrument that is an alternative for Muslim communities which are interested in building a country’s economy without elements of ribā. This instrument has a main contract in the form of ijārah and supporting contracts, one of which is al-bay‘. However, the application of these contracts can only be said to be valid from a Sharā‘ perspective if all rules and conditions are throughly fulfilled. This study focuses on analyzing the application of the al-bay‘ contract on PBS. It uses a data collection method by interview and review of literature, which was then analyzed inductively to draw conclusions from the specific to the general. The study found that the majority application of the al-bay‘ contract to PBS is in line with the principles of Shariah, although there are still some issues still to be rectified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Orthodox Syrian movement in Indonesia is a phenomenon of Christianization. The approach of this missionary is a challenge towards the Indonesian Muslim. This movement is initiated by the Institute for Syriac Christian Studies located at Surabaya, Indonesia. The Indonesian Muslims have responsed towards the Christian Orthodox movement via writings and discourses. This article will discuss the approaches, the main issues which are argued by Muslim intellectuals and the implication towards the relationship between Muslims and Christians in Indonesia. In analysing this phenomenon, the writer use the content analysis approach which is largely based on Indonesian Muslim intellectuals' writings in books, newspaper and magazines. This article has concluded that the Indonesian Muslim intellectuals must have a knowledge on Christian Orthodox Syrian and to face a Christianinization movement in Indonesia which is led by the Christian Orthodox Syrian Movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]