Indonesian Political Islam in International Historiography : "bottle points" and prospects for revising interpretational models

The purpose of this article is to analyze the role and the significance of Islam in political processes in Indonesian society. The novelty of this study lies in its comprehensive examination of the historiography of the Ummah's political participation in modern Indonesian history. Methodologically presented article actualizes the interpretative potential of modern historical science, represented and proposed in intellectual history, which allows to analyze various visions and interpretative models proposed by historians as elements of the process of ideas generation. The article analyzes : 1) the interpretive model of the history of political Islam in Western historiography, 2) the Russian perspective on the politicization of Islamic discourse and its gradual radicalization, and 3) the importance of reconsidering previous interpretations and possible directions for revising the historiography of the current history of Islamic radicalization in Indonesia. Thus, the author analyzes : 1) how interdisciplinary historiography studies democratization, which became the impetus for the institutionalization of political Islam; 2) how historiography examines the contradictions between supporters of radical Islam, who became the main beneficiaries of democratization, and Muslim liberals as outsiders in the current political and ideological competition; 3) how modern historiography perceives democratization, which created the conditions for growth, progress, and the strengthening of traditionalist and anti-democratic tendencies in the modern Indonesian Ummah. The article also examines the historically institutionalized social contradictions between Islam and the secular state. The author demonstrates how scholars of Islam study democratization, which corresponded to the interests of Islamists, stimulating their radicalization. The author analyzes the perception of the conflict between the secular democratic regime and radical political Islam.