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The increase of Islamophobia in many countries are confirmed by the United Nations’s release. The Centre of Islamic Research and Development of Jakarta (PPIJ) or well known as Jakarta Islamic Centre will hold International seminar “Rejecting Islamophobia Through the Concept of Al-Wasathiyah”. Dr Taufik Hidayat, M.Sc said that the concept of Al-Wasathiyah was deliberately carried out in this international seminar, because Islam is a religion with a middle concept. “The term Al-Wasathiyah refers to the expression of the Qur’an with a noble meaning, namely the Muslim Ummah or Nation that has the characteristics of justice, excellence and balance.” He said…

Forword by Prof. Dr. Azyumardi Azra, MA, MPhil The Publishment of the Betawi Ulama Intellectual Genealogy book: Tracing the Network of Betawi Scholars from the beginning of the 19th Century to the 21st Century (2017), is certainly a very important contribution in the history of Islamic scholars from the Betawi ethnic group. Before the publication of the book, there were not works which comprehensively discussed the Betawi Islamic scholars from generation to generation, particularly since the 17th century, as this book covered. Indeed, there have been many books and articles that discussed one or two Betawi Islamic scholars, but unfortunately…

The term genealogy comes from Greek which consists of two words, namely: γενεά, genea, which means “descent” and λόγος, logos, which means “knowledge”. In the beginning, genealogy was a study of family and the tracing of descendent and their history or is called a biological genealogy. Genealogists use ‘the word of mouth’, historical records, genetic analysis and other recording to get information about a family and show the kinship and genealogy of its members. The results are often displayed in the form of chart or are written in the narrative form. Some experts distinguish between genealogy and family history and…