Nur Rofiah: the Initiator of Substantive Justice for the Benefit of Women

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Tanggal Publikasi	:	18 January 2022
Artikel Lengkap	:	Nur Rofiah: the Initiator of Substantive Justice for the Benefit of Women

Nur Rofi’ah is a woman scholar of the Quranic Exegesis who teaches in the postgraduate program of Perguruan Tinggi Il mu Alquran (PTIQ) or Quranic Higher Education College in Jakarta.  She obtained her secondary and senior high school in  the  Pesantren for Girls in Seblak Jombang which was founded by Nyai Khoiriyah Hasyim Asy’ari;  the prominent women ulama figure,  then in the Pondok Pesantren Krapyak which was supervised by Nyai Nafisah. Her undergraduate degree she obtained from Islamic State University of Yogyakarta, while her postgraduate and doctoral degree she obtained from the University of Ankara, Turkey. Her involvement with the religious texts always remains with question, on why women are often treated discriminatively especially in the family and social matters.  Her meeting with the teachers or masters who taught her on critical thinking, and the women ulama figures that she met in the two pesantrens in which she lived  there, had inspired her to explore the hidden meaning in the religious text to find women’s identity. Then Nur involved in several organisations that concerned on women empowerment in Indonesia such as P3M,  Rahima, Alimat,LKK NU, Sisters in Islam (SIS), and Musawah Global Movement, and etc. For her, the more she learned about the religious texts, it strengthened her believe that the advancement of women is one of the main agenda of the Islamic teaching.