PARADIGMA DAN AKTUALISASI INTERPRETASI DALAM PEMIKIRAN MU?AMMAD AL-GHAZĀLĪ

Mu?ammad al-Ghazālī is one of the prominent thinkers of Ikhwān al-Muslimin. He has been regarded by some scholars to possess progressive ideas and accomodative and contextual character. This paper, exemines the coherency of al-Ghazālī’s thought of interpretation and his paradigm manifested in his works on exegesis. In conclusion, the ideal interpretation paradigm offered by al-Ghazālī as knife analysis of the Koran texts is not fully applied. In fact, he intends to interpret the verses of the Koran textually. The question is where the inductive method of interpretation of the Koran which he thinks as the Qur'anic method. There is a discontinuity of thought which al-Ghazālī does not realize in reference to his paradigm for his interpretation.