What might be the relevan aproach to study tasawuf?To fully understand sufism, should the scolars experience mystical practices, or is it enough to simply study it?If the scolars simply learn sufism as a science what might be the adequate approach to understand the statements and explanations contained in sufism literature?Some other different questions are whether such claims of spiritual expe…
In a attemp to understand better the failure of Islamism to exercise any significant impact on the trajectory of Indonesian politics through the twentieth century, this article examines the development of Indonesian Islamist throught in the early twentieth century and compares it to the growth of secularist nationalist thinking. Islamist thinking was slow to arrive at a consciousness of Indones…
This paper is aimed at describing the history and the social dynamics of the reformist and traditionalist fiqh in Indonesia. It first tries to show that since the 13th century Islam in Indonesia has largely been sufi-oriented. It was only fairly recently that Islam in this country came into contact with figh especially after the return of Indonesian students from the Middle East toward the end …