Prof. H. Hilman Latief, M.A., Ph.D. adalah seorang dosen, peneliti, akademisi, dan ilmuwan dari Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta yang menduduki jabatan sebagai Direktur Jendral Penyelenggaraan Haji dan Umrah yang di lantik oleh Menteri Agama pada tanggal 1 Oktober 2021.^[1] Pria kelahiran Tasikmalaya, 12 September 1975, tersebut menempuh pendidikan yang beragam. Ia mengenyam pendidikan menengahnya di Pondok Pesantren Darul Arqam Muhammadiyah Garut dalam jurusan Biologi.

Setelah lulus dari Pondok Pesantren Darul Arqam Muhammadiyah, Hilman Latief melanjutkan pendidikan tingginya di Jurusan Tafsir Hadis, Fakultas Ushuluddin, IAIN (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta (selesai tahun 1999). Kemudian ia mendapatkan Beasiswa Program Pasca Sarjana (BPPS) untuk dia meraih gelar Master dari Universitas Gadjah Mada pada 2003. Atas dukungan Beasiswa Fulbright ia meraih gelar Master keduanya di bidang Studi Islam dan Perbandingan Agama pada 2005 dari Western Michigan University, Amerika Serikat.

Pada tahun 2008, ia untuk mendapatkan beasiswa dari Kementerian Luar Negeri Belanda dan menjadi PhD research fellow dalam program Training Indonesia's Young Leaders yang berbasis di Universitas Leiden di bawah asuhan Prof. N. J. G. Kaptein dan Prof. Wim Stockhof. Ia juga menjadi menjadi PhD Research fellow di ISIM (International Institute of Islam and Muslim Societies) dan gelar Doktornya diraih tahun 2012 dari Utrecht University di bawah bimbingan Prof. Martin van Bruinessen. Pada tahun 2013, ia mendapat undangan menjadi research fellow di Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal –, Land – en Volkenkunde (KITLV).

Sekembali ke tanah air, Hilman Latief menjabat sebagai Kepala Lembaga Penelitian, Publikasi dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (LP3M) Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta pada 2013-2017. Kemudian diangkat sebagai Wakil Rektor Bidang Kemahasiswaan, Alumni dan AIK di UMY periode 2017-2021. Pada tahun 2014, Hilman Latief meraih penghargaan Alumni Achivement Award dari Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Western Michigan University (WMU), Amerika Serikat. Atas kiprahnya di bidang akademik maupun sosial kemasyarakatan. https://wmich.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/u58/2015/cas-alumni2014.pdf

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Kiprahnya di bidang sosial dan keagamaan dilakukannya sejak muda. Ia sejak usia sekolah sudah tergabung sebagai aktivis Ikatan Remaja/Pelajar Muhammadiyah (IRM/IPM) dan Himpunan Mahasiswa Islam (HMI) saat di kampus. Keterlibatan dalam gerakan persyarikatan Muhammadiyah di Majelis Pendidikan Kader (MPK) PP Muhammadiyah. Kemudian, pada tahun 2015-2022 ia memimpin Lembaga Amil.Zakat Muhammadiyah (Lazismu). Pada Muktamar Muhammadiyah tahun 2022 di Surakarta, ia terpilih menjadi anggota Pleno PP Muhammadiyah, dan ditunjuk menjadi Bendahara Umum Pimpinan Pusat Muhammadiyah 2022-2027.

Sebagai seorang ilmuan dan praktisi dalam filantropi Islam, Hilman Latief memulai proyek perubahan berbasis kawasan di Desa Citeureup dan Winduraja, Kecamatan Kawali, Kabupaten Ciamis, Provinsi Jawa Barat melalui Indo-Philanthropy Action Lab for Sustainable Living (IPAL4SL) yang dirancang untuk sepuluh tahun ke depan (2020-2030). IPAL4SL merupakan sebuaah platform terbuka untuk menguji konsep-konsep pemberdayaan dan pengembangan masyarakat berbasis kawasan. https://cendekia-muda.id/social

Hilman Latief menerbitkan berbagai karya-karya nya dalam bentuk buku dan artikel dalam berbagai majalah ilmiah

“Reconsidering Muslim Philanthropy for Sustainable Development,” in Shariq Ahmed Siddique & David Ample (eds.), Philanthropy in the Muslim World, (Cheltenham & Massachusetts: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023)

“The Politics of Humanitarianism-based Welfare in Post Disaster Aceh,” in Wawan Mas’udi and Cornelis Lay (eds.), The Politics of Welfare: Contested Welfare Regimes in Indonesia (Jakarta and Oslo: Yayasan Obor Indonesia in cooperation with PolGov Fisipol UGM and University of Oslo), 2018), pp. 1999-220.

“Marketising Piety through Charitable Work: Islamic Charities and the Islamisation of Middle-Class Families in Indonesia,” in Filippo Osella and Daromir Rudnyckyj (eds.), Religion and the Morality of Market (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017), pp. 196-216.

(With R. Alpha Amirrachman) "Islamic Philanthropy and the Rights to Education: Modalities of Education Provision for Underprivileged Groups in Post-New Order Indonesia" in Khun Eng Kuah, Jason Eng Thye Tan (eds.), Educating Marginalized Communities in East and Southeast Asia State, civil society and NGO partnerships (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).    

(Editor), “Rediscovering Peace: Religion, Culture and Politics in the Age of Crisis, (Yogyakarta and Kuala Lumpur: LP3M UMY and Perdana Global Peace Foundation/PGPF-Malaysia, 2016).  

Comparative Religion in Medieval Muslim Literature (Jakarta: The Directorate of Higher Education, the Ministry of Religious Affairs, 2012).

“Islam and Humanitarian Affairs: The Middle Class and New Patterns of Social Activism,” in Kees van Dijk and Jajat Burhanuddin (eds.), Islam in Indonesia: Contrasting Images and Interpretations (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013), 173-194. ISBN: 978-90-8964-423-7.

(2022), With Madjid, Abd.  Majlis Taklim and The Path of Women's Islamization In Indonesia. Muslim World, 112: 457-472. https://doi.org/10.1111/muwo.12449.

(2022). “Masyumi Networks and the Proliferation of Islamic Higher Education in Indonesia 1945-1965,” Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia. Published by KITLV Leiden, the Netherlands. Published by KITLV Leiden, the Netherlands.

(2022) “Fatwa Pluralism on Zakat in Indonesia,” Journal of Muslim Philanthropy and Civil Society. 6(2): 101-119.  Published by Indiana University Press.  

(2022) With Piliyanti, Indah & Anwar, Syamsul. “Technologizing Islamic Philanthropy During The Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia. Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society, 6(2): 120-141. Published by Indiana University Press.  

(2022) With Madjid, Abd, and Fauzan, Aris. "Honouring the Saint through Poetry Recitation: Pilgrimage and the Memories of Shaikh Abdurrahman Siddiq Al-Banjari in Indragiri Hilir" Religions 13, No. 3: 261. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13030261

(2021) With Pratiwi, Amelia. Hassan, Syed. Robani, Anidah. & Ahamat, Amiruddin. “Islamic solidarity economy: the case study of social entrepreneurship in Pesantren,” Indonesia. Middle East J. of Management. 1. 1. 10.1504/MEJM.2021.10043267.

(2021) With Robani, Anidah. Kamarudin, Mohd Fauzi. Rozikan, “Becoming the State-Funded Madrasah or Retaining Autonomy: The Case of Two Madrasahs in Kelantan,” Qudus International Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1-36.

(2021) With Zainuddin, Mahli. “Preserving Ancestral Land and Ethnic Identification: Narratives of Kerinci Migrants in Malaysia.” TRaNS: Trans -Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia, 9(2), 203-217. doi:10.1017/trn.2020.15. Published by Cambridge University Press.

(2020) With Nashir Haedar. “Local Dynamics and Global Engagements of the Islamic Modernist Movement in Contemporary Indonesia: The Case of Muhammadiyah (2000-2020).” Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs. (2020), 39(2):290-309. doi:10.1177/1868103420910514

(2018) “Preserving Gulf Charities: Orphans Projects in Post-Disaster Aceh,” Middle East Insight, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, Mei Insight no. 195. https://mei.nus.edu.sg/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Hilman-Latief-converted-4.pdf

(2017) “Addressing Unfortunate Wayfarer: Islamic Philanthropy and Indonesian Migrant Workers in Hong Kong,” The Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies, 10 (2), 237-255. Published by / Society for South-East Asian Studies, Vienna, Austria.     

(2016) “Philanthropy and “Muslim Citizenship” in Post-Suharto Indonesia,” Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 5, No. 2, pp. 269-286. Published by Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University.

(2014) “Gulf Charitable Organizations in Southeast Asia,”

http://www.mei.edu/content/map/gulf-charitable-organizations-southeast-asia.

(2014) “Contesting Almsgiving in Post New Order Indonesia,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 16-50.

(2013) “The Politics of Benevolence: Political Patronage of Party-based Charitable Organizations in Contemporary Indonesian Islam,” Al-Jamiah: Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 91-118. Accredited journal by the Ministry of Education.

(2013) “Islamic Philanthropy and the Private Sector in Indonesia,” Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 175-201.

(2012) “Islamic Charities and the Dakwah Movement in a Muslim Minority Island: The Case of Niasan Muslims,” Journal of Indonesian Islam, Vol. 6, No. 2 (December 2012), pp. 221-244. Accredited journal by the Ministry of Education.

(2011) “Symbolic and Ideological Contestation over Humanitarian Emblems: The Red Crescent in Islamizing Indonesia,” Studia Islamika vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 249-286. ISSN: 0742-6763. Accredited journal by the Ministry of Education.  

(2010) “Health Provision for the Poor: Islamic Aid and the Rise of Charitable Clinics in Indonesia,” Journal of Southeast Asia Research, 18, 3 (September 2010), pp. 503-553. Published by SOAS-University of London.  

(2010)“Youth, Mosque, and Islamic Activism: Islamic Sources Books in University-based Halaqah,” Kultur: The Indonesian Journal for Muslim Culture, Volume 5, No. 1, pp. 63-88.

(2008) “The Identity of Shi’a Sympathizers in Contemporary Indonesia: An Overview,” Journal of Indonesian Islam, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 300-335. Published by the State Institute of Islamic Studies, Sunan Ampel-Surabaya.

(2008) “Developing Cross-Sector Coherence: Islamic Philanthropy, Agenda of Third Sector Organization and Civil Society in Indonesia (bilingual),” Special issues on Discourse of Zakat Management: Between Government and Civil Society, Journal of Zakat and Empowering, Volume 1 (Sya’ban 1429/August 2008), 48-61. ISSN 1979-9349.

(2006) “Comparative Religion in Medieval Muslim Literature,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 28-62. Published by American Muslim Social Scientist.  ISSN: 0742-6763

Sejarah Lokal Muhammadiyah (Yogyakarta: LRI-UMY, 2024)

Fatwa-fatwa Filantropi Islam di Indonesia: Atonasi, Komparasi dan Kompilasi (Yogyakarta: UMY Press, 2019).  

(with Irfan Abu Bakar and Chaider Bamuallim) (eds.), Kaum Muda Muslim Milenial: Hibridasi Kultural, Konservatisme, dan Tantangan Radikalisme, (Jakarta: CSRC UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, 2018).

Post Puritanisme: Pemikiran dan Arah Baru Gerakan Islami Modernis di Indonesia 1995-2015 (Yogyakarta: LP3M UMY, 2017), ISBN 978-602-7577-64-0.

(with Zezen Zainal Mutaqin). (eds) Islam dan Urusan Kemanusiaan: Konflik, Perdamaian dan Filantropi  (Jakarta: Serambi & ICRC, 2015). ISBN 978-602-290-024-5.  

Politik Filantropi Islam di Indonesia: Negara, Pasar, dan Masyarakat Sipil  (Yogyakarta: Ombak, 2013). ISBN 978-602-258-067-6.

Melayani Umat: Filantropi Islam dan Ideologi Kesejahteraan Kaum Modernis (Jakarta: Gramedia, 2010). ISBN: 978-979-22-5990-2.

Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid dan Kritik Teks Keagamaan, Yogyakarta: Elsaqpress, 2003. ISBN 979-97421-5-3. [xv-179 pages including index].

(Ed.). Islam dan Pengembangan Disiplin Ilmu (Islam and Inter-disciplinary Studies), Yogyakarta: LPPI UMY, 2003. ISBN 979-97496-0-3 [vi-186 pages]

1. ^ Gunawan, Deden. "Hilman Latief, Dirjen Haji yang Belum Menunaikan Ibadah Haji". detiknews. Diakses tanggal 2022-11-26.