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Aris Widodo

One of the striking issues that beset human beings is how to have the encounter with God, to whom they worship. Therefore, some of them design a roadmap of spiritual journey to have the encounter. An Islamic Sufi order, ?ariqah Qadiriyyah wa Naqshabandiyy... see more

Asfa Widiyanto

This paper investigates how the code of conducts and devotion to the leaders develop in the Sufi orders, and how these shape the notion of “popular piety”, by paying a particular attention to the ?ariqah Qadiriyyah Wa Naqshbandiyyah (TQN) in Mranggen, Cen... see more

Cucu Surahman, Aceng Kosasih

Muslims' understanding of Islamic teaching is diverse. Jurists, for the instance, emphasize the aspect of the outer of the Shari‘ah while Sufis focus on the aspect of that inner. In history, the tension between them is apparently seen. The first even accu... see more

Ahya Ulumiddin

The fierce hostility that happened between the Kadizadelis and the Sufis during the 17th century of the Ottoman Empire is not the new issue in Islamic civilization discourses. During this period, the empire suffered from massive decadences in almost all s... see more

Mutawali Mutawali

Irfani epistemology is one of the Islamic philosophical paradigms for understanding religious texts including the Qur'anic texts. It maintains that the source of knowledge is intuition that puts emphasis on spiritual cultivation, not text or reason. Altho... see more

Fadhilah Khunaeni

Spirituality for Seyyed Hossen Nasr is an inner reality that becomes a religious central in Islam. It is the esoteric dimension hidden in the reality of exoteric Islam. That view on spirituality brings Nasr to the philosophical thought that cannot be sepa... see more

Andi Herawati

The wisdom of the prophets in Ibn ‘Arabi’s Fu?u? al-?ikam is deeply concerned with discovering how the prophets who are taken up in each chapter exemplify different facets of the deeper spiritual process of the divine-human relation. This article examines... see more

Nafisah Nafisah

This paper examines the origins of metaphysical thought of Abu Bakr Mu?ammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi. His metaphysics proposes five eternal principles which include (1) God (al-Bari Subh\anah), (2) universal soul (al-nafs al-kulliyah), (3) primeval matter (... see more

Lien Iffah Naf'atu Fina

This paper attempts to provide a balanced and comprehensive reading of al-Buni, who is mainly known as a scholar of Islamic magic, instead of a Sufi. This is because his name and works are widely known and referred in the Islamic world even into the prese... see more