ABSTRACT
Against the backdrop of the common neglect of the development of Islamic thought in Southeast Asia in the study of Islam, Indonesian Muslim scholars have actively made various efforts to rethink interpretive approaches to the Qurʾān – a prominent theme in contemporary debates on Islamic reform – over the past three decades. Some of them, for instance, have proposed new ideas popularized under certain brands like tafsīr transformatif (transformative interpretation), tafsīr kontekstual (contextual interpretation), tafsīr emansipatoris (emancipatory interpretation), paradigma al-Qurʾān (the paradigm of the Qurʾān), al-taʾwīl al-ʿilmī and so on; some seek to introduce perspectives commonly known outside the field of Islamic studies, while others focus more on reevaluating existing methodologies of Qurʾān interpretation.1
