Mosques for All: Philantrophic Spirit, Ideology Contestation, and Islam Cassette in the Context of Islamic Locality in Lombok
Keywords:
Mosque, Ideology;Philanthropy, Identity, Culture, Wahhabi movementAbstract
This paper tries to explore the phenomenon of local religiousity which is reflected through mosques, both theologically and socially, as well as how mosques become a space for the struggle of ideological basis, and authority between cultural Islam and the Salafi-Wahhabi movement. The mosque is not only a place of worship but also transformed into a concentrated public space and philanthropy has begun to emerge which was adopted from mosques outside Lombok. This philanthropic spirit has become an effort to criticize the massive construction of mosques but lack spirituality or the social welfare of the community around the mosque. Unlike the case with the massive Wahhabi movement which gave rise to the dynamics of Islamic development in the Sasak community, one of which was the massive construction of mosques from Saudi Arabian donors. However, it is undeniable that it also gave rise to contestation in the Sasak community. How the mosque became the basis for the spread of Wahhabi ideology was quite successful with the development of the Wahhabi in to hinterland. The last discussion in this paper is related to the sounds that come out of the mosque as a culture which is inevitably sometimes quite disturbing with the noise that is generated and is often associated with Islam Cassette. The mosque as God's House should not be selfish with the noise, and there it needs to be a negotiation to agree on sound boundaries that are in accordance with the environmental conditions around the mosque.