PERGERAKAN ISLAM DI MALAYSIA: KONTEKS DAN FAKTOR SEJARAH

The paper highlights early phase of the historical development of Islamic movement in Malaysia since colonial era. This was projected from two crucial and overlapping aspects; the reform movement which brought national awareness and renewed aspiration for tajdid as well as the influence of anti-colonial movement and its underlying impact of political Islam embedded in the Malay-archipelago. It describes the impact of Islamic movement in Malaysia in fostering religious consciousness and reassertion of its dynamic spirit in broad socio-cultural and socio-political context. The pioneering work of Syed Syaikh al-Hadi, Burhanuddin al-Helmy, Ustaz Abu Bakar al-Baqir, and Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas has sparked significant influence and inspired profound and lasting spiritual and religious growth and struggle. The intellectual and religious movement inspired by these figures demonstrated meaningful intellectual and spiritual essence that set forth significant threshold for public debates of the Islamic moral and social premise and the dialectic of ijtihad. Their influence has brought forth progressive change that help to foster an inclusive civil society and constructed sustainable Islamic polity. This study is based on qualitative approach in the form of library research. Data collected through documentation technique and interpreted using descriptive, analytical, historical, and comparative method. This research found that the genuine struggle for Islamic cause has bring unprecedented reform in reasserting tawhid consciousness and its principal liberating values through IOK. It set forth the trajectory of realizing the objective of reform in reclaiming the spirit of ijtihad and strengthening its rational, metaphysical, and ideological basis, whose manifestation constitute the socio-political and socio-cultural faces of Islamic revival in Southeast Asia. Their foundational work has been instrumental in strengthening scientific spirit and in the proliferation of effective cadre recruited at the ...