Internalization of Qur'anic values in the consumption behavior of Islamic students: A study of the gap between norms and practices at the Zainul Hasan Genggong Islamic boarding school

Ghafur, Abd., Asnawi, Nur and Djalaluddin, Ahmad ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7062-663X (2026) Internalization of Qur'anic values in the consumption behavior of Islamic students: A study of the gap between norms and practices at the Zainul Hasan Genggong Islamic boarding school. LAN TABUR: Jurnal Ekonomi Syariah, 8 (1). pp. 550-564. ISSN 2716-2605

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Abstract

The consumption behavior of Muslims is normatively regulated by the principles of halal (permissible), balance (wasathiyah), and prohibition of excess (israf) as emphasized in the Qur'an, Surah Al-A'raf, verse 31. Islamic boarding schools, as the oldest Islamic educational institutions in Indonesia, numbering more than 42 thousand institutions, ideally become social spaces that foster simple and worshipful consumption patterns among students. However, initial observations at the Zainul Hasan Genggong Islamic Boarding School indicate a gap between the normative regulations of Islamic boarding schools and the actual consumption practices of students. This article aims to explain the background, urgency, and novelty of research on the gap between Qur'anic values and students' consumption behavior. This article is compiled based on a literature review (state of the art) of twelve previous studies on the consumption behavior of Islamic boarding school students and Muslims as well as preliminary interview data with six male and female Islamic boarding school informants at the Zainul Hasan Genggong Islamic Boarding School, Probolinggo Regency, which is strengthened by secondary data from the Indonesian Ministry of Religion and the State of the Global Islamic Economy Report 2024/2025. Initial initial findings reveal three recurring empirical patterns of deviation. First, students' consumption follows the cycle of parental remittances, with wasteful spending concentrated in the days immediately after funds arrive and frugality resuming only as the next remittance approaches. Second, the boarding house meal-card mechanism is frequently manipulated, as cards intended for rice are exchanged for instant noodles or sausages, causing monthly meal allowances to run out within 15–20 days instead of a full month. Third, an adaptive online-shopping practice has emerged in which students, who are not permitted to hold personal mobile phones, direct their parents to place orders on their behalf during visits. Together, these patterns indicate that consumption control is driven more by structural resource limitations than by a stable internalization of qana'ah and wasathiyah, and that previous research has not yet produced an operational model of consumption behavior explicitly grounded in Qur'anic values and empirically tested within Islamic boarding schools.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	consumption of students; qur'anic values; islamic boarding schools; islamic economics; wasathiyah
Subjects:	14 ECONOMICS > 1401 Economic Theory > 140104 Microeconomic Theory
Divisions:	Graduate Schools > Magister Programme > Graduate School of Islamic Economics
Depositing User:	Dr. Ahmad Djalaluddin
Date Deposited:	23 Oct 2026 15:00

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