Imam Zarkasyi referred to the principle of the unity of man or unity of creation and the unity of knowledge, as a reflection of the nature of one God conception. The results of the study showed that the rationale of Islamic multicultural education proposed by KH. In any way, the contents of the articles and advertisements published in JTSiskom journal are sole and exclusive responsibility of their respective authors and advertisers.The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the thoughts of Islamic multicultural education proposed by KH Imam Zarkasyi in or- der to find the rationale and the construction of thoughts as well as the contribution to Islamic civilization in Indonesia through historical-philo- sophical approach.
SABDA: Jurnal Kajian Kebudayaan and Faculty of Humanities Diponegoro University and the Editors make every effort to ensure that no wrong or misleading data, opinions or statements be published in the journal. , will be allowed only with a written permission from SABDA: Jurnal Kajian Kebudayaan and Faculty of Humanities Diponegoro University. The reproduction of any part of this journal, its storage in databases and its transmission by any form or media, such as electronic, electrostatic and mechanical copies, photocopies, recordings, magnetic media, etc. The Authors submitting a manuscript do so on the understanding that if accepted for publication, copyright of the article shall be assigned to SABDA: Jurnal Kajian Kebudayaan and Faculty of Humanities Diponegoro University as publisher of the journal.Ĭopyright encompasses exclusive rights to reproduce and deliver the article in all form and media, including reprints, photographs, microfilms and any other similar reproductions, as well as translations. With the concepts of culture, background and multi-cultural experiences, in the communities of nation of Indonesia there can be arranged Indonesian socio-cultural systems. Meanwhile, Anthony Giddens (1991), conceptualized culture by referring to the whole way of life of the members of a society. is that complex which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and many other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” Three quarters of a century later, Ralph Linton (1945), offers a formula about the culture that emphasized on the factor of integration achieved through a learning behavior: "A culture is the configuration of learned behavior and results of behavior whose component elements are shared and transmitted by the members of a particular society." While according to Koentjaraningrat (1974), elements of culture include (1) social organization systems (2) systems of religion and religious ceremonies (3) livelihood systems (4) science and knowledge systems (5) technology and equipment systems (6) language systems and (7) arts.
Leslie White (1973), defined the conception of culture that includes "beliefs, ideologies, social organization, and technology (the use of tools)." In the second half of the 19th century Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, conducted a study of "primitive societies," which functions as the foundation for putting together the concept of culture: "Culture or Civilization. Consciousness thus commenced from the gift of reason, his human instincts and feelings, which are not owned by other beings, such as animals. Human consciousness towards the experience encouraged him composing formulation, definitions, and theories about the ways of his life, into the conception about culture.