FARID ESACK'S QUR’ANIC HERMENEUTICS OF PLURALISM FOR INTERRELIGIOUS COOPERATION IN INDONESIA

Zaenal Muttaqin

Abstract


In contemporary Islamic thought, religious pluralism has been a discourse that many Moslem scholars have introduced to the Islamic community. One of the scholars is Dr. Farid Esack, a South African exegete who is also well-known as a human right activist. Brought up under an apartheid regime ruling South Africa, Esack is of a certain opinion that religion should function to struggle against any unjust order. To make a radical and fundamental change, according to Esack, there is no way but to constructively reinterpret religious discourse and role so as to be a tool of liberation. Using yet controversial a hermeneutical analysis on the Qur'an, Farid Esack raises the idea of pluralism dealing critically with the struggle against oppression and toward liberation for South Africa.


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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22515/islimus.v5i1.2813

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