Transformasi Visi UEA 2021: Kajian Pendekatan Sosiologi Agama dalam Pembangunan Negara Muslim Modern
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This study discusses how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) integrates Islamic values in modern socio-political development through a socio-political approach to religion. Focusing on the UAE's national development vision 2021, this paper analyzes how values such as maslahah (public interest), maqashid al-shariah (sharia goals), and hikmah (wisdom) are systematically used by the state in the process of modernization and institutional reform. This study shows that Islam in the UAE is not only used as an ethical foundation, but also as a source of symbolic legitimacy and a tool of social engineering that supports stability, national integration, and the consolidation of state power. Using the framework of the sociology of religion, this paper unravels how Islamic symbols and values are used in state discourse, public policy, and institutional building such as the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowments and the Ministry of Tolerance and Coexistence. In addition, the study also explores the role of Islam in the UAE's soft power through interfaith diplomacy and sharia economic development, which reinforces the UAE's position as a modern Muslim country that is adaptive to globalization without relinquishing its roots of religious values. The results of this study show that the UAE's vision for 2021 is not only a technocratic development project, but also a cultural and religious project that makes Islam a unifying force and a guide to social change. Thus, this paper contributes to understanding the dynamics of the relationship between religion and state-building in the contemporary Muslim world.
Keywords: UAE, sociology of religion, modern Islamic development, Vision 2021, Muslim countries
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