Monday, July 1, 2013

Revolutionary Sufi doctrine

Historical phenomenon, symbols of religious rituals and norms conceptual religious teachings containing the messages liberation ethics for human life. Religions teach good spirit of resistance in the form of cultural resistance, political resistance, psychological resistance, and all the other stiff resistance. 

Function of religion is a vehicle that is as liberators from oppression of human rebellion because rebellion is a rejection of authority. Sometimes the rebellion occurs because social upheaval of religious legitimacy. This book is proof that religion appears as a mosaic ethical liberation in Banten peasant uprising on July 9, 1888. 


In the altar 1870 to 1888, subject to the power of the people Banten government officials. The civil service became the colonial agents as tax collector Banten people. Banten farmer suffocated because the obligation to pay taxes and have to sell their products at a low price. Plus disease outbreaks and natural disasters are all dodging kelindan be a complex affliction. This also encourages the farmers to end all suffering with rebelling against the government and affiliated with the Dutch authorities. 


The reality, though people have a tradition of Banten revolt but they are subject to government superiority. Social unrest peaked but did not budge. Rebellion began to emerge from among the religious elite and the aristocrats were also reinforced by their religious hatred against infidels rule (page 9). 


Hendri F Isnaeni in this book with a cool life narrative, more colorful and certainly convincing, able to unravel the thread that made the legitimacy of religious doctrine in Banten peasant rebellion. In his research, Hendri reveal important facts are not known in advance, including key figures in the Banten peasant revolt of Sheikh Abd al-Karim al-Banteni. Sheikh Abdul Karim is a cleric Qadiriyya Naqsyabandiyyah congregation who was instrumental to the formulator and provider of revolutionary ideology (page 22). 


Religious spirit imaginatively and creatively interpreted and formulated into a revolutionary ideology of resistance against colonial forces. The ideological concoction transformed into Sufi doctrine of the revolutionary movement that evokes the souls of Banten people to stand up to challenge the Dutch imperialists. 


Religious doctrines delivered Shaykh Abd al-Karim al-Banteni the arrival of Imam Mahdi, the Prophet Muhammad's final warning, establishing a state of Islam (dar al-Islam), and Sabil War (Jihad fi sabilillah), which is then planted by the students such Marjuki Haji, Haji Ismail Tubagus, and Haji WASID, has become a rational basis for doing pemberontakaan. The religious doctrine to trump Shaykh Abd al-Karim Banten in inspiring people to insurrection. 


Interestingly, Hendri interpret the intent of the doctrine of the coming of Imam Mahdi Ramallah a savior figure who will show up to save the world from all kinds of sins. Apparently it's become a mission in order to spread fear to the Dutch authorities (see page 66). 


This book brilliantly illustrates the patterns of farmers pemberantakan Banten which originated from consolidation under the guise of gatherings such as parties, weddings or circumcision parties. Meetings smaller using the guise of remembrance meeting. That happens, the civil service as well as on European officials do not see a suspicious or dangerous activity. 


Reading this book will be presented with the historical fact that the revival of religion has become a revolutionary movement that brought by the clergy and the peasants were oppressed in the power of European governments and the civil service Banten. A book written by the prolific young historian who helped uncover treasures of Islamic intellectual history of the archipelago with a brilliant narrative and solid theory. 


Title: Religious doctrine Sheik Abd Al-Karim Banteni In Peasants Revolt of Banten in 1888 Author: Hendri F Isnaeni Publisher: Wise Creative Library Edition: I, September 2012 Thickness: x + 118 pages Reviewer: Wildani Hefni, Researcher at the Institute for Educational Studies, Islamic, and Social (LekDiS), Jakarta

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