| Abstrak/Ringkasan |
f Islam in Indonesia, especially in Java and Madura, were held almost
without any tension and conflict. Even in the societies with some
former belief systems such as Animism and Buddhism, Islam was easily
accepted as a religion that brings peace within its teachings. During
periods, Islam and local cultures perform a dialectical relationship and
give rise to local variances of Islam, such as Javanese Islam, Madurese
Islam, Sasak Islam, Sundanese Islam, etc. Those variances of Islam
are the result of an acculturation process between Islam with the local
cultures. In other word, this process is also called as “inculturation”.
These local variances of Islam, further termed as the “cultural Islam”
in this paper, have become a characteristics of Indonesian Islamic
societies phenomenon which are different from Middle-East’s Islamic
society and European Islamic society. This paper discusses about the
Madurese Islam, one of these cultural Islam’s variances. Dialectical
process between Islam and the local culture of Madura in turn generates
a unique Madurese Islam, which is distinctive and esoteric. In its further
developments, Islam and Madurese tradition are seen as unity and |
