Activation of the Platform of Islamic Studies for the Socio-Cultural change in Thailand: Dr. Ismail Lutfi’s efforts as a Model

Abstract

This article shows the incubator or the environment  which formed the character of  the individual Muslim in Thailand and influenced the idea ; Lament on cultural and social which is shrouded Platform for Islamic Studies. It gives  model of  Dr. Ismail Lutfi  Fatoni  efforts environment. And how the curriculum of Islamic studies benefited from the volatility experienced and the Muslim community in Thailand , where the cause is required in the Islamic intellectual structure change was a way to reform and the Renaissance , and out of the Islamic discourse of defense of Islam stage to the practical theoretical objective -oriented values ​​of Islamic stage and faith to find scientific solutions. The article aims to form a socio-cultural change through the construction of cultural and social theory and applications of the concept ; where is social constructivism  and cultural change process aimed at establishing a civilization by a system of social and cultural relations. Social and cultural change are necessarily of making people , ideas, and things all of us. And that there is a difference between the Social and Cultural change and Social and Cultural change. The shift is reflected through human intervention planning, and the change is the phenomenon of spontaneous, and include the change for the worse, or better. The article concludes that the activation of the Islamic Studies curriculum reform renaissance in Thailand can be viewed through two levels : Level I : diagnosis  Incurable  in the Muslim community in Thailand , and in the light of the data Ambush  Islamic Studies in the direction of social sciences and humanities. Level II : take the tools and mechanisms of transformation, which make Islam essential and pivotal role .