Haidar Bagir

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Haidar Bagir, (born February 20, 1957), is an Indonesian entrepreneur, philanthropist, author, lecturer, and the president director of the Mizan Group.[1]

Education

He got his undergraduate degree from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (Bandung Institute of Technology). He finished his course works at the Graduate Program of the State Institute of Islamic Thought, Jakarta, but received his master’s degree from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University, and his PhD degree from the Department of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia (with one year research in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, Bloomington).

Career

He has been the president director of Mizan Group, which he founded in 1982. Mizan is ranked among the biggest publishing houses in Indonesia. It has also won several awards for its movie productions such as Laskar Pelangi, Garuda di Dadaku, 3 Hati 2 Dunia 1 Cinta.[2]

Bagir teaches at the Islamic College for Advanced Studies (ICAS) London in Jakarta, is the chairman of the Lazuardi Hayati Foundation for Education (an umbrella organization of a network of pre-K to K-12 schools in several cities in Indonesia), Founder of YASMIN (a foundation for philanthropic works on community education and health in Jakarta), and chairman of IIMaN Center for the Development of Positive Sufism.

Bagir has been a recipient of several grants from U.S. institutions, including a Fulbright Grant for Graduate Studies at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, a Fulbright Grant for Doctoral Research in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, and the CTNS Award for Religion and Science Curriculum Development.[3] He has taught Islam in the University of Sciences in Philadelphia as a visiting scholar within Fulbright’s Direct Access to the Muslim World program and was appointed as the Misher Professor of Humanities 2005 by the university.[4]

With some prominent Indonesian figures such as Professor Komaruddin Hidayat, Professor Franz Magnis Suseno, Dr. Seto Mulyadi, and Abdillah Toha, he declared a movement called Gerakan Islam Cinta (Loving-Islam Movement), which to remind Indonesian Muslims (and the world) that Islam is not merely about rules and laws, but also about loving others. In the declaration Bagir quoted his professor at Harvard University, Annemarie Schimmel, that Islam has been misunderstood as a religion of law, even as religion of violence and war; that many orientalists and historians and even Muslims themselves tend to forget the loving aspects of Islam.

Bagir’s name has also been included in the list of the 500 Most Influential Muslims in the World.[5] 2009 and 2010 editions issued by the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University and the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Amman, Jordan.

Bibliography

He has written numerous papers and articles on various topics – especially in the fields of Islamic philosophy, mysticism, and thought – published in national newspapers, magazines, and journals as well as in several books and seminar proceedings and authored eight books, including Speaking the Unspeakable. Mystical Experience According to Mulla Sadra (to be published soon), Deciphering Mystical Experience: A Comparison between Mulla Sadra and Heidegger (2007, limited edition), Pocket Book of Islamic Philosophy,[6] Pocket Book of Tasawuf (Islamic mysticism), [7] Islamic Political Philosophy Between Alfarabi and Ayatullah Khomeini,[8] The New Era of Ethical Management,[9] Islam, Risalah Cinta dan Kebahagiaan (Islam, a Message of Love and Happiness), and co-authored Revelation of Secrets: A Sufi Hermeneutics (to be published soon).

References

  1. ↑ PPIA. "Haidar Bagir". Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Australia. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  2. ↑ FFI. "Pemenang FFI 2010". Komite Festival Film Indonesia. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  3. ↑ CTNS. "2002 Science & Religion Course Prize Winners (Final Year)". CTNS. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  4. ↑ University of Sciences. "Fulbright Scholar from Indonesia visits USP, pp 15" (PDF). Univ. of Sciences in Philadelphia. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  5. ↑ The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. "The 500 Most Influential Muslims" (PDF). The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  6. ↑ Bagir, Haidar (2005). Buku Saku Filsafat Islam. Indonesia: Arasy Mizan. pp. 223 pages. ISBN 979-3551-05-4. 
  7. ↑ Bagir, Haidar (1994). Buku Saku Tasawuf. Indonesia: Penerbit Mizan. pp. 261 pages. ISBN 979-433-080-9. 
  8. ↑ Bagir, Haidar (2002). Filsafat Politik Islam. Antara Alfarabi dan Ayatullah Khomeini. Indonesia: Penerbit Mizan. pp. 171 pages. ISBN 979-433-308-5. 
  9. ↑ Bagir, Haidar (2005). Era Baru Manajemen Etis. Indonesia: Mizan Pustaka. pp. 232 pages. ISBN 979-3551-04-6. 

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