Response paper to Postcolonial consciousness in Indonesia: Azyumardi Azra (Theories of Social and Religion)

The tendency of the intellectual content of the transmission process of a network of Middle East scholars into the Archipelago (Nusantara) is more of a Neo-Sufism, which is the fruit of the integration of understanding the Qur'an and Hadith with a variety of religious understanding and practice of the scholars at that time.

Local thought of clerics and the contribution of scholar network to the process of Islamization of the Archipelago considered very large, especially after the relationship with the Middle East and Nusantara scholars began intense. There are some scholars who are very instrumental in the process of Islamization of Nusantara, among others: Nur al-Din al-Raniri, 'Abd. Ra'uf Al-Sinkili, Muhammad Yusuf Al-Maqassari, Al-Palimbani, Al-Banjari, and many others.

After a long process of Islamization of Nusantara, on the subsequent development of the Islamic world is very interesting to study about various intellectual tendencies which are new and valuable ammunition for the scholars in fostering and preserving Islam in the archipelago. It is very important to be studied to establish the understanding that Islam in Indonesia was derived from sources that could be accounted for, either horizontally or vertically.

As known, the process of interaction Muslim leaders from around the world share in Haramain has spawned a variety of friction, particularly in the field of religion. After going through a fairly long integration among Muslims Haramain, Persia, India and Nusantara, it appears that significant differences in the socio-cultural background of each condition. So do not be surprised if Haramain position as a "melting pot" (melting pot) various traditions of "small" Islam that fused to form "new synthesis" of the Islamic tradition. Spirit to return to Sunni orthodoxy seems to reach the culmination, resulting in the emergence of a new spirit, the spirit of revival that inspired the establishment of school in the Middle East region after the founding of Nidhamiyah school.

The period of reconciliation began to adorn the pattern of interaction seems to scholars in this period. It is characterized by mutual approach-oriented scholars Shari'a (the fuqaha ') with the Sufis. Long-lasting conflict between the two groups of scholars began to recede, began the development of doctrine which is characterized by persistent taught by Al-Ghazali and Al-Qushayri several centuries before that contribute greatly to the birth of the schools of Neo-Sufism.