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Lintas Agama). 81 clearly shows Khairul Bayan reaction to The Islamic Left and Dr Hassan Hanafi’s PT Raja Grafindo Persada, through The boarding school
the ideas of Islamic reformism and its Thought, A Critical Reading written by its publishing division Sri Gunting Madrasah Tarbiyah
Still another publisher that belonging to Islamiyah in Batang
category is Khairul Bayan. It is a small supporters. Kazuo Shimogaki that was originally started to actively publish books on Kabung, Koto Tangah,
scale publisher that started operations Khairul Bayan also published Islamic published in 1988. Kiri Islam was rapidly Islam since the early 1990s. In fact, Padang.
in 2002. It is considered close to Partai magazines and journals, such as sold out as the early 1990s was an era of some titles have been reprinted several
times to cater for the market’s interest,
Bulan Bintang (PBB), a small Islamic- the weekly bulletin Al-Insan, and the radical student groups that revived their such as Fundamentalisme Islam dan Source: Directorate of
based party that inherited the ideology magazines Fikri, Keluarga Insani, and demands for liberation from the New Modernitas, and Tugas Cendekiaan History and Cultural
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of the Masyumi, a former Islamic party Alia, a magazine for middle class Muslim Order government that had restricted Muslim. 92 Values, Ministry of
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that represented the “modernist” group women. Khairul Bayan released a their reading. As a result, all books with a Education and Culture
of Muslims and that was disbanded in quarterly journal Islamia, which was first leftist title sold out in no time. Similarly, since the 1990s up to now, the of the Republic of
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1960s. Oriented to its motto “Sumber published in March 2004. Looking at Books on Islam by General Kompas-Gramedia group has also been Indonesia.
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Pemikiran Islam” (the source of Islamic the first issue it appears that Islamia Publishers publishing books on Islam starting with
thought), the books produced by this attacks the modernist-liberalist approach books in encyclopedic form covering
publisher support the implementation to Quranic commentary, like that The rapid development of Islamic books discussions on Islamic biography, Islamic
of the sharia. Among the books it introduced in their works by Nasr Hamid in Indonesia is not only the result of history, leaderships of Islamic dynasties,
has published are Garis-Garis Besar Abu Zayd and Muhammad Abid al-Jabiri Islamic publishing houses but also of that Islamic contemporary conditions, and
Syariat Islam by Mawardi Noor, which were mostly published by LkiS, as of general publishers like Erlangga, Bumi other Islamic themes. Several Islamic
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Manajemen Strategis Perspektif Syariah will be seen below. Aksara, Raja Grafindo Persada, and books Gramedia published are The
by Muhammad Ismail Yusanto and Lkis was founded in Yogyakarta in 1993 the Kompas-Gramedia Group. These Oxford Modern Islamic World (4 Vols.,
Muhammad Karebet Widjajakusumo, by university students who mostly had publishers initially did not produce books published in 1995), Concise History
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and Hukuman Bagi Konsumen Miras & a traditional pesantren educational on Islam and only started to do so in the of Muslim World (3 Vols., published in
Narkoba by Fauzan Al-Anshari. Khairul background. LkiS began as a discussion 1990s when they had become aware of 2001), Encyclopedia of Muslim Biography
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Bayan also published Islamic novels and group of students mostly at the State the rising commercial importance of the (5 Vols., published in 2001), International
short stories. Islamic Institute or IAIN (now State publication of Islamic books. encyclopedia of Islam Dynasty (30 Vols.,
published in 2002), Encyclopedia of
In 2005, soon after the death of Islamic University, UIN) Sunan Kalijaga In the 1980s, LP3ES, a general publisher The World Muslims (4 Vols., published
Nurcholish Madjid (Cak Nur), one of the Yogyakarta that talked about pluralism established in 1971, marked its first in 2002), Dictionary of Islam (2 Vols,
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main supporters of moderate Islamic and inter-religious tolerance. success in catering for the Muslim published in 2004), Encyclopedia of
thinking, Khairul Bayan published a LkiS publishes books about leftist and community in 1981 with the publication Islam & Muslim World (2 Vols., published
controversial book written by Adian liberal-oriented Islam. The first book of Pergolakan Pemikiran Islam: Catatan 2004), Encyclopedia of Islam & Scientist
Husaini, in which he correlated Cak Nur it published in 1993 was Kiri Islam, Harian Ahmad Wahib. In the 1990s, (4 Vols., published in 2005), Biographical
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death with his supposedly deviant and a translation of the English edition of many publishers followed and they Encyclopedia of Islam (4 Vols., published
misguided ways of thinking. The book Between Modernity and Postmodernity: also started to release Islamic works. in 2006).
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