GJAT | DECEMBER 2019 | VOL 9 ISSUE 3 | 27 ISSN : 2232-0474 | E-ISSN : 2232-0482 www.gjat.my The Influence of Middle Eastern Islamic Political Thought on Islamic Political Parties in Indonesia: The Case of PKS Ahmad Ali Nurdin Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati, Bandung, Indonesia Tel: +6282117543973 E-mail:
[email protected] Abstract Muslim world. The role of Islam in politics was not only reflected in governmental and This paper primarily focuses on the influence social organizational activities, but was also of Middle Eastern Scholars on the Prosperous the concern of the scholars as well. Muslim Justice Party or the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera scholars like Jamaluddin al-Afghani and (PKS) of Indonesia. By looking into the way Muhammad ‘Abduh in Egypt, and Sir Sayyid the party establishes and develops itself, and its Ahmad Khan and Muhammad Iqbal in the member recruitment style, this paper shows that Indian subcontinent were actively involved the influence of Middle Eastern scholars on the in disseminating ideas of modernism and party’s ideology is relatively significant. The resurgence. “Islamic modernism” consisted emergence of what was known in Indonesia as primarily of intellectual movements driven by the dakwah or tarbiyah movement, which later several factors, and is particularly concerned came to influence the establishment of PKS, was with Muslim ‘backwardness’ vis-à-vis Western in fact an extension of the movements promoted colonial influences. Although modernism in by Abu A’la Maududi in Pakistan and Hassan Islam was originally conceived in the Middle al-Banna in Egypt. For the PKS, books written East, Middle Eastern modernist movements by Maududi and al-Banna have become main later managed to influence Muslims around sources for its members’ training activity, known the world, especially those in the Indo-Pakistan as the liqo activity.