Kesenjanganantara Pendidikan Pesantren dan PTAI

Abstract

This article aims at analyzing and comparing education system of Islamic boarding
School and Islamic university. There are the same goals between those both
institutions, that is to create Ulama’. However, the outputs of both institutions
are quite different, even in giving the scholar’s degree. For the graduates of the
Islamic boarding school are called Kyai, on the other hands, the graduates of the
Islamic University are known as religious scholars. But the two terms refer to the
same meaning, Ulama’. The graduates of the Islamic boarding school are usually
more proficient in mastering classical texts. So they tend to be more textual or
scriptural in handlingsome particular problems. On the contrary, the graduates
of Islamic university tend to think contextually and critically.Nevertheless, unlike
the graduates of the Islamic boarding schools, most of them are not well qualified
inundertaking the classical resources dealing with religious law or theology in
general. So there has been an apparent discrepancy between the two sides. How
could we overcome this discrepancy?