HERMENEUTIKA ASGHAR ALI ENGINEER

MENYINGKAP MEGA SKANDAL TAFSIR PATRILINEAL

Abstract

The perspective of normativity is an understanding of religion which is
more oriented to the relation of human with God and focused to text study
not to submit the rational side. Whereas, historisity is how to understand
a religion and text by understanding the historical sides that cover them,
or socio-cultural tendencies that cover them too. This renewal of thingking
appears as a concern of the contemporary scientists which are taking note
for the diversity of moslem ………, so the thought above becames a theological
revolution toward tranformative theology to answer the reality nowadays.
This thought is as a concern of Asghar Ali Engineer, a thinker from India
for making phenomenal changes from the perspective and characteristic
of moslem.
Asghar Ali Engineer by using hermeneutical approach, stresses to
consideration socio-history to find the general principle (substantive) in
the Al-Qur’an. More further, Asghar uses the arguments of ulama/thinker
as an effort to make his ideas stronger. Observating the contains freom text
(Al’Qur’an or history) aims to be carrying a gender equality., that is often
seen in others works. Asghar dissolve a text into context, in order text that
he concerns to this work, to find the relevancy, which is agreeing with the
condition of its era. This case is the evidence that Asghar is efforting to make
s text of Al-Qur’an comes alive, so it is become the solution of any problem
people have.