Reinterpreting the Concept of Caliphate through Gadamerian Hermeneutics Approach

Aulia Rahman Nugraha, Naupal

2018

Abstract

The idea of the Caliphate has been an issue in Indonesia in recent years. We can witness that there is a movement which aims for replacing the concept of Indonesian government with the “Khilafah Islamiyah’. There have been worries that this concept is narrowly interpreted and that is only for the purpose of political-power. If so, we fail to understand the meaning of the caliph in a larger landscape. Using Gadamer's hermeneutical approach, it is hoped that we can understand the meaning of the concept of caliphate to be more comprehensive. Understanding the text can not be separated from the tradition in which the interpreter is located. Thus, the interpreter needs to broaden his present horizon to reach the horizon of the text. The fusion of the horizon is to produce a new understanding. To understand the caliphate more fully, we must expand our horizon to reach the horizon of the text; the horizon of the Qur'an, the hadith, and the history of the concept of the caliphate. Technically, this paper uses literature study method. The results of this paper show that the concept of the caliph is a conceptual substance concerning humans who performs universal good deed on earth.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nugraha A. and Naupal. (2018). Reinterpreting the Concept of Caliphate through Gadamerian Hermeneutics Approach.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 2067-2075. DOI: 10.5220/0009939320672075

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Aulia Rahman Nugraha and Naupal},
title={Reinterpreting the Concept of Caliphate through Gadamerian Hermeneutics Approach},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={2067-2075},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009939320672075},
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 - Reinterpreting the Concept of Caliphate through Gadamerian Hermeneutics Approach
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Nugraha A.
AU - Naupal.
PY - 2018
SP - 2067
EP - 2075
DO - 10.5220/0009939320672075