Nalar Fikih Baru Muhammadiyah Membangun Paradigma Hukum Islam yang Holistik (original) (raw)

This paper attempts to trace Muhammadiyah's new legal (fiqh) reasoning in Islamic legal discourse, and its possibility to become a holistic legal paradigm. In the leadership of Syamsul Anwar, Majelis Tarjih of Muhammadiyah introduced the idea of a new fiqh concept which is considered different from the classical fiqh concept. This fiqh reasoning has produced many Tarjih's products, such as Fikih Air (Jurisprudence on Water) and Fikih Kebencanaan (Jurisprudence on Disaster). On the basis of that considerations, this paper wants to answer some crucial questions; First, how exactly is Muhammadiyah's new fiqh reasoning and what is the difference between classical fiqh concept; Second, where is the position of Muhammadiyah's new fiqh reasoning in the perspective of contemporary Islamic law studies that are developing, especially in the West ?; and Third, as a concept that produces ijtihad products, then there is a possibility of Muhammadiyah's fiqh reasoning can be a new paradigm of Islamic law. The question is, to what extent is such possibility. This article is devoted to address this issue.