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Nahdatul Ulama

Nahdlatul 'Ulama
نهضة العلماء
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Formation

Surabaya

January 31, 1926
Type Socio-religious organization
Headquarters Jakarta, Indonesia
Region served
Indonesia
Membership
94 million (2016)
Secretary General
Dr.(H.C.) Helmy Faishal Zaini, S.T., M.Si.
Chief Executive
Prof. Dr. K. H. Said Aqil Siradj, M.A.
Chief Adviser
Dr.(H.C.) K. H. Ma'ruf Amin
Website www.nu.or.id
Nahdlatul Ulama
Abbreviation NU
Founded 1952 (party)
31 January 1926 (organization)
Dissolved 5 January 1973
Split from Masyumi
Merged into United Development Party
Headquarters Djakarta, Indonesia
Newspaper Duta Masjarakat
Youth wing Ansor Youth Movement
Ideology Islamism
National affiliation Indonesian League of Muslims

Surabaya

Nahdlatul Ulama (also Nahdatul Ulama or NU) is a traditionalist Sunni Islam movement in Indonesia following the Shafi'i school of jurisprudence. NU was established on January 31, 1926 in Surabaya as a response to the rise of Wahabism in Saudi Arabia and Islamic modernism in Indonesia. The NU is the largest independent Islamic organization in the world with membership of 40 million in 2003. NU also is a charitable body funding schools and hospitals as well as organizing communities to help alleviate poverty.

Nahdlatul Ulama is known as an ardent advocate of Islam Nusantara; a distinctive brand of Islam that has undergone interaction, contextualization, indigenization, interpretation and vernacularization according to socio-cultural condition of Indonesia.Islam Nusantara promotes moderation, compassion, anti-radicalism, inclusiveness and tolerance. However, many NU members are either reticent or defend the role of the NU in the Indonesian killings of 1965-66.

Nahdatul Ulama follows the ideology of Ahl as-Sunna Wa al-Jama'ah, which takes the middle sect between extreme aqli (rationalist) with the extreme naqli (scripturalist). Because it is a source of ideas for not only the Quran, the Sunnah, but also the ability of the mind coupled with empirical reality. It referred to this way of thinking of earlier thinkers, such as Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari and Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi in theology. Then in the following four schools of jurisprudence; Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali. While in the field of Sufism, it follows path of Al-Ghazali and Junaid al-Baghdadi. It has been described by the media as a progressive, liberal and pluralistic Islamic movement.


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