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ﺍﻟﻤﻌﻬﺪ ﺍﻟﺪﻭﻟﻰ ﻟﻠﺪﺭﺍﺳﺎﺕ ﺍﻟﻘﺮﺁﻧﻴﺔ Al-Ma‘had al-Dawali lil-Dirasaat al-Qur’aniyya The International Institute of Qur’anic Studies gerakan bhinneka tunggal ika The Unity Amid Diversity Movement LibForAll and its International Institute of Qur’anic Studies (IIQS) were recently awarded a $1.3 million grant by the John Templeton Foundation, to implement key elements of the IIQS strategic plan. This project represents a unique opportunity to help build a theological and cultural foundation for freedom of conscience in the Muslim world—working with deep-rooted local power structures controlled by highly principled actors who have the theological legitimacy, cultural influence and mass following required to produce significant and lasting results. The interdisciplinary nature of this project will leverage established relationships with a wide range of opinion leaders and create “interlocking fields of fire,” whereby the various project components strengthen and support each other. Specifically, the project will: a) help mobilize the world’s largest Muslim organization—the Nahdlatul Ulama, with approximately 50 million followers and 14,000 madrasahs—to defend Indonesia’s traditions of religious diversity and tolerance, and to project sustained, long-term influence to other key regions of the Muslim world and the West; b) encourage the systematic cultivation of ethical behavior and a noble character (akhlakul karimah), including key virtues that lie at the heart of Islamic teaching: e.g., love, actively expressed in the form of compassion (mahabbah/rahman); humility (tawadlu’); respectful communication with others (silaturrahim); and beneficial purpose (azam); c) systematically propagate use of “the law of compassion” to reinterpret Islamic jurisprudence and thereby liberate religious norms from the “burden of history,” including antagonism towards those who embrace a different faith; and d) leverage the enormous success of a prior LibForAll project, The Illusion of an Islamic State, to build a network of opinion leaders in the fields of religion, education, pop culture, government, business and the mass media, and through this network establish a grassroots movement to revitalize the cultural and political institutions responsible for Indonesia’s traditions of religious liberty, which predate the Virginia Statue for Religious Freedom and First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by hundreds of years. Jakarta Cairo Winston-Salem Leiden Magelang Project outputs (publications, social media, websites, films, music videos, mass gatherings and media events) are designed to re-enliven the view that true religion is a source of universal love and compassion (rahman), so that this narrative may once again become the dominant understanding of Islam within Indonesia—embraced by the nation’s religious, cultural and political leadership, and an integral part of the worldview held by society at large. By integrating this project with parallel activities conducted by the IIQS public policy division (the Center for Contemporary Islam) in Cairo, Egypt, this ambitious program will help to lay an epistemological, theological and cultural foundation for freedom of conscience in the Muslim world. “T he greatest acts of devotion are those motivated by intense gratitude to God, for all His grace. And also motivated by intense love for God and His servants (humanity), and for all His creatures.” ~ Kyai Haji Muhammad Zuhri Zaini Head of PP. (Madrasah) Nurul Jadid in Probolinggo, Indonesia “I do not long for a return to Muslim domination of the world, or the establishment an Islamic state or kingdom. No. The “triumph of islam” that I dream of, is one in which Muslim intellectuals and scholars spread the true values of islam: the values of mutual love, nurturing and respect. That is the form of Islamic power, the triumph of islam, of which I dream.” ~ Kyai Haji Muhammad Yusuf Chudlori Head of PP. (Madrasah) Asrama Perguruan Tinggi in Tegalrejo, Indonesia “A lthough at present (our movement is) not nearly as powerful as that of extremists, who spread the ideology of violence, the awareness that their ideology should be opposed is already widespread. It only remains to set people in motion, so that we can all oppose (the ideology of hatred) together. Because hatred and violence are enemies of mankind, and incompatible with the noble characteristics of humanity created by God—Pure and Exalted is He!” ~ LibForAll/IIQS Senior Advisor Kyai Haji A. Mustofa Bisri Deputy Chairman, Nahdlatul Ulama Supreme Council Examples of the closely-integrated theological, cultural and multi-media approach that will be employed in executing this project: “Without Rules” A Javanese mystical poem sung by LibForAll/IIQS co-founder KH. Abdurrahman Wahid, which has become massively popular since his death. It rejects a superficial understanding of shari‘a—“In the end, this will lead to nothing but misery”— and urges Muslims not to imitate those “who memorize the Qur’an and hadith [but] love to condemn others as infidels, while ignoring their own infidelity to God.” LibForAll/IIQS film presents an intellectual, historical and theological argument for freedom of conscience, featuring prominent Indonesian, Arab and European religious leaders. “Gus Dur: Champion of the People” “That’s Just How It Is, No Problem” Two of the many popular tributes to President Wahid that emerged spontaneously in the years following his death in December of 2009. The first song’s moving refrain—“Kelingan welingmu sing prasojo: agomo nyayomi jagad royo!” (“We remember your wise advice: religion nourishes all of creation!”)— reinforces the essential teaching of President Wahid and the Nahdlatul Ulama: that true religion is a source of universal love and compassion. The massively popular book, which mobilized Indonesian public opinion against Islamist movements in 2009 and laid the foundation for the Unity Amid Diversity Movement. See appendices 4 – 6 for documentation of this impact.