Indonesia’s Humanitarian Islam Movement Origins, Development, and Global Impact

1.     Introduction: A Movement of World-Changing Significance — Nahdlatul Ulama’s Humanitarian Islam

Robert W. Hefner 

PART I: Background

2.     The Humanitarian Islam Movement: Its Genealogy and Global Impact

C. Holland Taylor

3.     The Antecedents of Humanitarian Islam in the Reformist Ideas of Harun Nasution, Nurcholish Madjid, and Abdurrahman Wahid

Mirjam Künkler

4.     Humanitarian Islam as a Response to Jihadi Extremism

Rüdiger Lohlker

PART II: Perspectives on Humanitarian Islam from Within Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)

5.     How Islam Learned to Adapt in Nusantara

Yahya Cholil Staquf

6.     Humanitarian Islam and Sufism: Towards an Islamic Ethics of Cultivation and Ethos of Engagement

Ismail Fajrie Alatas

7.     The Roots of Humanitarian Islam in the Writings of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali and the Javanese Reception of His Ideas

Ulil Abshar Abdalla

8.     Towards a Reform of Islamic Teachings, and Principles, Regarding Muslim/Non-Muslim Relations

Yahya Cholil Staquf

9.     Humanitarian Islam from the Perspective of Traditional Sunni Ulama

Afifuddin Muhajir

10.  Humanitarian Islam, the Prophet Muhammad (saw.), and the Four Rightly Guided Caliphs (al-Khulaf ā’ al-Rāshidūn)

Abdul Ghofur Maimoen

PART III: Humanitarian Islam, Democracy, and Human Rights

11.  Positive Deviance Within the Indosphere and the Muslim World

Timothy Samuel Shah

12.  Humanitarian Islam, Christian Humanism, and Democracy

Michael D. Driessen

13.  The Indonesian Women’s Ulama Congress (KUPI) Movement and NU Women’s Religious Activism

Nelly Van Doorn-Harder

PART IV: The Global Implications and Impact of Humanitarian Islam

14.  Nahdlatul Ulama and the Battle for the Soul of Islam

James M. Dorsey

15.  Nahdlatul Ulama, Peacebuilding, and Humanitarian Islam

Muhammad Najib Azca

16.  The Global Soft Power of Humanitarian Islam: Prospects and Challenges Facing Nahdlatul Ulama’s Religious Diplomacy

James B. Hoesterey

17.  Nahdlatul Ulama and the R20 International Summit of Religious Leaders: A Transformative Moment in World Affairs

Robert W. Hefner

18.  Fiqh al-Hadarah and Its Implications for the United Nations and the Future of a Rules-Based International Order

Amanda tho Seeth

PART V: Closing Reflections

19.  Conclusion: Moral Leadership at a Critical Juncture — Nahdlatul Ulama, Democracy, and the Quest for a Reformed Islamic Ethics

Robert W. Hefner

20.  Epilogue: Humanitarian Islam and the Post-World War II Human Rights Project

Mary Ann Glendon

Biography

Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the Pardee School of Global Affairs at Boston University and President of the American Institute for Indonesian Studies.

C. Holland Taylor is co-founder of the Humanitarian Islam movement and co-founder, Deputy Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for Shared Civilizational Values.

Timothy Samuel Shah is co-founder and the Director of Strategic Initiatives of the Center for Shared Civilizational Values and Distinguished Research Scholar in Politics at the University of Dallas.

Thomas G. Dinham is Director of Communications and European Engagement for the Center for Shared Civilizational Values and its sister organization, Bayt ar-Rahmah.