Hijab Syar’i: Religious Expression in the Phenomenon of Hijrah among the MuslimFemale Students

Every Muslim ideally has a goal to practice Islamic laws through their religious expression. The increasing awareness of students in closing their aurat as part of their religious orders showed this fact. This paper examines the phenomena of hijrah among the millennial students in which they are committed to wear hijab syar’i. Hijab syar’i is a term or an icon to distinguish the use of non-syari or non-Islamic hijab. Hijab is a long dress that covers the entire body except for the face, hands, and feet, usually worn by Muslim women.Every student has his or her own opinions and views about this dress. Some of them considered that‘hijab is hijab’ and there is no need to add syar’iterm in it. Others said that hijabsyar’iis very different from the understanding of hijab clothing in general. This group found that wearing a hijab for fashion is the same as not wearing a hijab. This study will use two analyzes in examining this phenomenon, i.e. intrinsic and extrinsic. The first covers all things from within a student, while the later refers to factors outside of the student. The result showed that the phenomenon of hijrah builds awareness to the female students of self-actualization model in expressing their religious perfectness in an increasingly modernized world.