Dekonstruksi Benturan Peradaban Barat Dan Islam Melalui Kajian Kehidupan Sehari-Hari Masyarakat Muslim Indonesia Kontemporer

The purpose of this research is to deconstruct the thesis of The clash of civilizations through the study of the representations of Islam by contemporary Indonesian Muslims on an everyday life basis. The research methodology is mixed since it is based on the analysis of determined texts about the representations of the clash of Western and Islamic civilizations, as conceived entities in a geographical imagination, where Islam has historically been misrepresented by some Western peoples; and on the application of surveys based on what the researcher has observed about the Islamic way of life perceived by Indonesian Muslims, which is antithetical towards the ways has been conceived by these Western peoples. However, the ways has been perceived the Islamic way of life by Indonesian Muslim peoples may not mean they are following, in reality, Islam as a way of life, since the impact of (Western) modernization on an everyday life basis questions the true meaning of Islam for this present time, considering the fact it is a way of life that is ought to cover all aspects of life. The resulting contradicting representations held by some Western peoples and Muslim peoples about Islam, implies that to reach a mutual understanding may not be limited in a traditional dialectical way, where either the ways of conceiving Islam by some Western people or the ways of perceiving Islam by Muslim peoples are the “ultimate truth,” but by mediation under a trialectical way, in the sense that these two confronted entities are mediated by a third one. The results of this research are headed towards an experiencing process of mediation by mutual learning, which is pedagogical by nature, since it attempts to change the situatedness of mankind in a civilizational path for the present time, under Islamic principles