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ORIENTALISME DAN SEJARAH ISLAM

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PENULISAN SEJARAH DALAM ISLAM (Antara Sinisme terhadap Orientalis dan Objektifitas yang Ada)* Mustatho’, M.Pd.I Abstract As sources of Islamic history, al-Qur’an and Hadits are the most important one. As well as in Muslim word, the discourse of Islam in the West gets a great appreciation. Islamic issues are always on the top rank which are appreciated. Many West scholars studied and analyzed them. Recently, West scholars who concern on Islamic studies commonly use term Orientals to make distinction between Islamic (east ) discourse and West. Edward Said, one of man knows much about Orientals attached Orientals that with in Orientals there are many tendentious surround it. As a critical study, the tendentious is not should be used. Muslim scholars must select how the product of Orientals is. They also have to treat the works of Orientals accurately and objectively. This writing is going to discuss how Orientals lays al-Qur’an and Hadits as sources of history in