Oleh: Abdullah al-Mustofa*
Berdasarkan pandangan “India-Centric” para sejarawan berpendapat, Islam di Nusantara berasal dari India dan para pionir penyebar Islam di Nusantara adalah para pedagang India, demikian ungkap Prof. Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas dalam ceramahnya pada acara “Special Lecture Series” yang diselenggarakan CASIS-UTM (Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilization-University Teknologi Malaysia) di kampus internasional UTM Kuala Lumpur Malaysia beberapa waktu lalu.
Dalam bukunya “Historical Fact and Fiction” al-Attas mengatakan, “Historians have been unjustifiably skeptical and produced all sorts of conjectures without adducing positive proofs; conjectures in which the role of India dan Indians have been unduly magnified. They have been doing this order to fit their theory of the spread of Islam from India and Indians, an Islam already colored by Hindu-Buddist mode of thought and belief concordant with the autochthonous tradition of the Malay peoples, in such a way as to explain that the ground was prepared for the “easy” adaptation of Islam by the peoples of the Archipelago.” (hal. 148)