Penelitian ini mengkaji fenomena sufisme perennial yang menekankan adanya kesatuan esoterik agama-agama sebagai tren baru pencarian spiritualitas masyarakat perkotaan Indonesia. Tulisan ini menyoroti ajaran sufisme perennial melalui konstruk teori perennialisme yang diusung oleh Frithjof Schuon dan murid spiritualnya yang amat setia dan terkemuka, Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Fokus kajian pada tulisan …
Modernity as a global phenomenon has been the most driving matter, said those scholars of modernity, that potentially threat the existent of tradition and religion. Both would vanish once the project of secularism accomplishes.However, since the global modernity, whether represented by secular state,nation state, and democracy, failed to fulfil its promises, tradition and religions in general h…
Penelitian ini menggali konflik antara Syaikh Ahmad al-Mutamakkin dengan Ki Ketib Anom Kudus yang dilatarbelakangi oleh paham sufisme. Ajaran tentang ilmu mistik Syaikh Ahmad al-Mutamakkin dianggap bertentangan dengan syari’at yang dibawa oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW. Menurut Ki Ketib Anom dan ulama-ulama pesisir Pantai Utara Jawa Timur ajaran itu akan membahayakan kaum Muslimin dan meminta kepada …
Penelitian ini menggali konflik antara Syaikh Ahmad al-Mutamakkin dengan Ki Ketib Anom Kudus yang dilatarbelakangi oleh paham sufisme. Ajaran tentang ilmu mistik Syaikh Ahmad al-Mutamakkin dianggap bertentangan dengan syari’at yang dibawa oleh Nabi Muhammad SAW. Menurut Ki Ketib Anom dan ulama-ulama pesisir Pantai Utara Jawa Timur ajaran itu akan membahayakan kaum Muslimin dan meminta kepada …
This article explores how Ki Hajar Dewantara has built his world of reality formulation. He has a sufism epistemology in establishing of his thinking. His sufism epistemology built evidently buried by well-established theories stating that Islam in Indonesia is a syncretic Islam, then labeled as religion Kejawen initiated as a religion abangan. But others say that the history of Islam in Java i…
This article explores Sufism in the perspective of K.H. Idris Muhammad Jauhari. It will also reveal the patterns of his mystical thought. In this study, the author finds that: firstly, in the view of Kiai Jauhari, Sufism is an attempt to straighten out the intention of heart and to understand the essence of deeds conducted by human beings in order to live a life to reach its final destination i…
This article discusses the theme of Sufism, modernity, and the relationship between the two. This study concludes that according to Mah}mûd, Sufism can deliver the people towards the true knowledge. In order to obtain this knowledge, the method of ittibâ‘ to al-Qur’ân and Sunnah is used. The method is implemented through purification of the soul. This method differs from the two methods …