Integration of Ulumul Qur'an And Western Hermeneutics: Sahiron Syamsuddin's Intellectual Project in The Context of Islamic Studies in Indonesia

Akhmad Aidil Fitra* -  Universitas Islam Negeri Fatmawati Sukarno Bengkulu, Indonesia
Farida Nur 'Afifah -  Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Busra Febriyarni -  Institut Agama Islam Negeri Curup, Indonesia
Idi Warsah -  Institut Agama Islam Negeri Curup, Indonesia
DOI : 10.24952/tkml.v1i2.19672
This article aims to analyze academic reception, and evaluate the contribution of Sahiron Syamsuddin’s intellectual project to the transformation of Islamic studies in Indonesia through the Ma’nā-cum-Maghzā approach. This research employs a qualitative approach within the critical hermeneutics paradigm, relying on Sahiron’s primary works as the main data sources, analyzed through three layered techniques: history of ideas (Skinner), critical discourse analysis (Fairclough), and comparative textual analysis. The research results reveal four main findings. First, Sahiron’s intellectual project emerged from the intersection of two major traditions: Qur’anic studies at UIN Sunan Kalijaga and Western hermeneutics, resulting in a distinctive hermeneutic-contextualist synthesis. Second, the Ma'na-cum-Maghza methodology possesses a coherent epistemological architecture by distinguishing ma'na and maghza as two interrelated dimensions of meaning. Third, this project has been widely accepted among progressive PTKIN academics while facing resistance from traditionalist-Salafi circles, reflecting a struggle for epistemic authority within the academic field of Indonesian Islamic studies. This article concludes that the Sahiron intellectual project constitutes a genuine epistemological reconstruction of exegesis, not merely a methodological hybridization, offering a model of non-hierarchical dialogue between Islamic tradition and modernity that is relevant to the entire Muslim world.

Keywords : Ulumul Qur'an; Western Hermeneutics; Islamic Epistemology

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