Al Makin

Al Makin Prof. Dr. Phil. Al Makin, S.Ag. MA (lahir di Bojonegoro Jawa Timur 12 September 1972; umur 47 tahun) adalah Profesor UIN Sunan Kalijaga,[1] ilmuwan, serta pakar di bidang filsafat, sejarah Islam awal,[2] sosiologi masyarakat Muslim, keragaman,[3][4] multikulturalisme, studi minoritas(Lia Eden,[5] Gafatar, Mushaddeq)[6], dialog antar iman, dan studi Gerakan Keagamaan Baru (NRM/New Religious Movement).[7] Dia saat ini tercatat sebagai Ketua Editor Jurnal Internasional Al-Jami’ah,[8] pendiri portal jurnal Kementrian Agama Moraref (Ministry of Religous Affairs Reference),[9] dan ketua LP2M (Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian Masyarakat) UIN Sunan Kalijaga periode 2016-2020.[10] Makin juga tercatat sebagai anggota ALMI (Asosiasi Ilmuwan Muda Indonesia) sejak 2017.

Dia adalah penulis dan peneliti yang produktif dalam bahasa Indonesia dan Inggris,[11] yang dituangkan ke dalam bentuk buku dan artikel di jurnal ilmiah. Dia juga penulis kolom regular di The Jakarta Post pada 2008-2016. Bukunya tentang keragaman diresensi di berbagai media, dia menawarkan konsep keragaman dalam sejarah Islam dan Indonesia. Bukunya yang lain juga tentang fenomena kenabian dan kemunculan para nabi di Indonesia. Berbagai artikelnya berbicara tentang keragaman, politik, budaya, filsafat, tafsir, dan sejarah. Pidato pengukuhan Al Makin dikutip diberbagai media karena kritik terhadap birokrasi dan administrasi kampus dan ilmuan Indonesia.[12][13][14][15][16][17][18]

Pendidikan

Pesantren Al-Hikmah, Bendo, Sidorejo, Kedungadem Bojonegoro (1981-1985)
MI (Madrasah Ibtidaiyah) Gaya Baru Sidorejo Kedungadem Bojonegoro (1981-1985)
MTsN (Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri) I Bojonegoro (1985-1988)
Pondok Pesantren Adnan Al-Haris Kendal Ngumpak Dalem Dander Bojonegoro (1985-1988)
MAPK (Madrasah Aliyah Program Khusus) Jember (1988-1991)
IAIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, S.Ag (1991-1995)
McGill University, Montreal, Kanada, M.A. (1998-1999)
Heidelberg University, Jerman (2005-2008)

Dosen dan Peneliti Tamu Internasional

Peneliti di the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Hong Kong); Dali University (Yunnan, China), the Asian Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies (Chennai, India); and the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (Yogyakarta, Indonesia), 2017-2020.

Peneliti tamu di the Religion and Society Research Center of the University of Western Sydney Australia, 2014.[19]

Peneliti tamu di the Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients, Ruprecht-Karls- Universität, Heidelberg, Germany, 2014.
Dosen tamu di ESSEC, Asia Pacific, French Business School in Singapore, on the theme “Asian Culture and Society, the Case of Indonesian Islam,” 2012.
Peneliti tamu di ARI (Asia Research Institute) National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore (starting from October 2011), 2011-2012.[20]
Peneliti tamu di The International Consortium for Research in The Humanities “the Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe” (IKGF), Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany, 2009-2010.[21]
Peneliti tamu di Jurusan Filsafat, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2008-2009.

Karya Buku

Membela yang Lemah demi Bangsa, demi Bangsa dan Ilmu, Keragaman, Minoritas, Khilafah, Kapitalisme Agama, dan Mazhab Yogya. Yogyakarta, Suka Press, 2019.
Plurality, Theology, Patriotism: Critical Insights into Indonesia and Islam. Yogyakarta and Geneva, Switzerland: Suka Press and Globe Ethics, 2017.
Challenging Islamic Orthodoxy, the Accounts of Lia Eden and Other Prophets in Indonesia. Dordrecht: Springer, 2016.[22]
Representing the Enemy: Musaylima in Muslim Literature, Frankfurt, Bern, Oxford, New York, Peter Lang, 2010.[23]
Nabi-Nabi Nusantara: Kisah Lia Eden dan lainnya. Yogyakarta, Suka Press, 2017.
Keragaman dan Perbedaan: Budaya dan Agama dalam Lintas Sejarah Manusia (Diversity and Difference: Culture and Religion in Human History) Yogyakarta: Suka Press, 2016.[24]
Antara Barat dan Timur: Melampui Jurang Masa Lalu untuk Meniti Jembatan Penghubung Barat dan Timur (Between West and East: To pass over the gap of the past to walk through the bridge connecting the West and East. Jakarta: Serambi (2015). Yogyakarta: Suka Press (2015/2016)[25]
Bunuh Sang Nabi: Kebenaran di Balik Pertarungan Setan Melawan Malaikat (Kill the Prophet: Truth behind the Struggle between Satan and Angel)." Jakarta: Hikmah, Mizan, 2006.[26]
Nabi Palsu, Membuka Kembali Pintu Kenabian (A False Prophet, Opening the Gate of Prophethood) Yogyakarta/Indonesia: Ar-Ruzz, 2003.
Anti-Kesempurnaan, Membaca, Melihat dan Bertutur tentang Islam (Unfinished: Reading, Observing, and Telling about Islam). Yogyakarta: Pustaka Pelajar, 2002.

Tulisan Jurnal Ilmiah

2019 “Nada Polifonik Teks Marxist Ala Kuntowijoyo: Pencarian Jati Diri Dari Marxisme Ke Islam.” Jurnal Sosiologi Reflektif 13, no. 2 (June 19, 2019): 189–208. https://doi.org/10.14421/jsr.v13i12.1613.
2019 “Returning to the Religion of Abraham: Controversies over the Gafatar Movement in Contemporary Indonesia” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, vol. 30, no. 1: pp. 87-104.
2018 “Not a religious state: A study of three Indonesian religious leaders on the relation of state and religion” Indonesia and the Malay World, vol. 46, no. 135, Routledge London 2017: pp. 95-116, DOI: 10.1080/13639811.2017.1380279.

2017 “Tuhan Di Antara Desakan Dan Kerumunan: Komodifikasi Spiritualitas Makkah Di Era Kapitalisasi (God among Crowd: Commodification of Spirituality in Mecca in the era of Capitalism“ Episteme, vol. 12. No. 1, pp. 1-28.
2017 “Homogenizing Indonesian Islam: Study of the narratives of the persecution of the Rausyan Fikr Shia group in Yogyakarta” Studia Islamika, vol. 24 no. 1, pp. 1-32.
2016 “Revisiting the Spirit of Religious Nationalism in the Era Of Pluralism and Globalization: Reading the Text of NDP Of HMI” Walisongo: Jurnal Penelitian Sosial Keagamaan, Vol. 24 No. 2, pp. 285-310
2016 “Antara Ziarah Religius dan Kapitalisasi di Era Globalisasi: Catatan Etnografis Umrah (Between Religious Pilgrimage and Capitalization in the Globalization Era: Ethnographical notes of Lesser Pilgramage” Afkaruna vol. 12 no. 1, pp. 114-134.
2016 “Identitas Keacehan dalam isu-isu Syariatisasi, Kristenisasi, Aliran Sesat dan Hegemoni Barat (Acehnese Identity on the Issues of Shari’a, Christianization mission, Defiant Sects, and Western Hegemony)” Islamica, Jurnal Studi Keislaman, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 1-22.
2016 “Tanggalkan Khalifah Di Bumi Ini: Membaca Narasi Sukarno tentang Sekularisme Turki (Abondon the caliphate on earth: Reading Sukarno’s Narrative on Turkey’s Secularization“ Al-Tahrir, Jurnal Pemikiran Islam vol. 16 no. 2, pp. 313-338.
2016 “Unearthing Nusantara’s concept of religious pluralism: Harmonization and syncretism in Hindu-Buddhist and Islamic classical texts“Al-Jamiah: Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 1-30.
2016 “Fears of an Open Market: Citizens‘ Voices of Asian Economic Community (AEC) Addin, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 55-78.
2016 “ Islamic Acehnese Identity, Sharia, and Christianization Rumor: A Study of the Narratives of the Attack on the Bethel Church in Penauyong Banda Aceh“ International Journal of Indonesian Islam, vol. 10, no. 1, pp: 1-35.
2016 “Are there any Indonesian prophets? Dealing with a common question and possible answer, Ulumuna, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 1-29.
2015 “Revisiting Indonesian public reactions against Danish cartoons depicting prophet Muhammad” Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, vol. 5, no. 2, pp: 195-229.
2013 “From Musaylima to Kharijite Najdiyya” Al Jamiah, vol. 51, no. 2, 2013.
2012 “Pluralism in education, a study of Mukti Ali’s thought” in eds. Rommel A. Curaming, Frank Dhont, Education in Indonesia perspectives, politics and practices. Yogyakarta: Yale Indonesia Forum, International Conference Book Series 4, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yogyakarta State University.
2011 “Pluralism versus Islamic Orthodoxy, The Indonesian public debate over the case of Lia Aminuddin, the founder of Salamullah religious cult” in ed. Thomas J. Connors, Social justice and rule of law: addressing the growth of a pluralist Indonesian democracy. Tembalang, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia; [New Haven]: Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Diponegoro University ; Yale Indonesia Forum.
2010 “Rethinking other claimants to prophethood, the case of Umayya b. Abi Salt,” Al-Jamiah, Journal for Islamic Studies, vol. 48 no. 1: 169-190
2009 “Pope Benedict XVI and Islam: Indonesian Reactions to the Regensburg Address” Journal of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relation/ICMR [Francis and Taylor, Routledge, London], vol. 20, no. 4, October: pp. 409–421.
2003 “A Defender of an ‘Existence’: Mulla Sadra’s [philosophical principles] on Mumkin [Potentiality]” al-Jami’ah, vol. 41 no. 1: pp. 42-67.
2002 “Demythologizing the Narratives of the Qur’an: Muhammad ‘Abduh’s and Bint Shati’s Accounts on ‘Ad, Thamud and Pharaoh in interpreting Q. 89: 1-10. al-Jami’ah vol. 40, no. 1 (January-June): pp. 80-97.
2001 “Al-Tha’labi’s Account of Fir’awn: From the Birth of Musa to his Contest against Fir’awn’s Magicians” Retorika vol. 1, (September-December): pp. 102-114.
1999 “The Influence of Zahiri Theory on Ibn Hazm’s Theology: The Case of His Interpretation of the Anthropomorphic Text ‘the Hand of God’.” Medieval Encounter [Brill Academic Publisher, Leiden], vol. 5 no. 1 (March): pp.112-120.