Philanthropy, Mosques, and Community Empowerment A Study on Zakat and Waqf Management in Jogokariyan Mosque, Yogyakarta (Philosophy, Contestation, and Transformation)

Abstract

In the development of Islam in the Middle East or long before the existence of Islam in the archipelago, the study of Islam was very advanced in Iraq and during the Abbasid and Umayyad dynasties. With the existence of many very significant developments, starting with the center of culture and civilization in the dynasty, by utilizing the mosque as a civilization of the ummah. This is proven to move the joints of the economy at that time. Thus, from the beginning, Islam wanted a civilization to be built in mosques in the Middle East. After Islam arrived in the archipelago, initially the mosque was the center of civilization, and sometimes many Islamic kings carried out activities in the mosque as a center for government at that time. For example, Raden Fattah and others, the projection of the mosque as the center of the civilization of the ummah has had a philosophy and guideline since the beginning. The potential of mosques in this country is also not small, even thousands and can be hundreds of thousands. However, this is still underestimated and sometimes overlooked. One example of a mosque that builds potential with zakat and philanthropy is the jokokariyan mosque in the city of Yogyakarta. This research wants to see the extent to which the philosophy and contestation and transformation of mosque-based philanthropy began with the jogokariyan mosque. In this dimension, the approach taken is the phenomenology and sociology of Islamic law. Institutional portraits and portraits of what social movements really support the success of the jogokariyan mosque in framing philanthropy with cimaik in the dimensions of their mosque's satker. This paper will dig deeper into the study of what transformations were created in the dimensions of the prosperity of the jokoriyan mosque.