Social Construction of the Al-Kahfi Reading Tradition on Friday

Nasrulloh

2018

Abstract

Reading Quran especially Al-Kahfi on Friday is the Sunnah recommended by the Prophet. The reading technique is not set in detail, anyone who reads it, whenever and wherever must get the reward, as long as it is read on Friday or Thursday night. Interestingly, the reading of Al-Kahfi in the academic community at the State University of Malang Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang has been institutionalized and become a fixed tradition, combining the values of local wisdom. This tradition indicates that the hadith is not merely a sacred text as the basis of the law, more than that the hadith becomes a living tradition or referred to as 'living hadis' and blends with the culture of a particular society. This research tries to answer the question of how the tradition occurred in the middle of the academic community in UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang. The phenomenon will be analyzed using the social construction theory initiated by Berger. This research includes the type of qualitative-empirical research with the approach of sociology. Data collection method used in this research are in-depth interview and documentation. Before the interview was conducted, the researcher selects the informant by using the purposive sampling technique. Researchers use a new approach model of Hadith research, ie living hadith. The tradition is formed through three dialectical moments. First: externalization, there are hadiths explaining the importance of reading Al-Kahfi on Friday. Second: Objectivation, Tranquility when reading al-Kahfi. Third: Internalisation, the academic community has different subjective meanings about the practice of that traditiony.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nasrulloh. (2018). Social Construction of the Al-Kahfi Reading Tradition on Friday.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 1175-1180. DOI: 10.5220/0009924511751180

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Nasrulloh},
title={Social Construction of the Al-Kahfi Reading Tradition on Friday},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={1175-1180},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009924511751180},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Social Construction of the Al-Kahfi Reading Tradition on Friday
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Nasrulloh.
PY - 2018
SP - 1175
EP - 1180
DO - 10.5220/0009924511751180