Achmad Munjid
Religious Studies Department, Temple University, Philadelphia- USA.

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A Pilgrimage Through the Mist of Legends: Reconstructing the Life and Works of ‘Abd Al-Qadir Al-Jilani Achmad Munjid
Afkaruna: Indonesian Interdisciplinary Journal of Islamic Studies Vol 10, No 1: June 2014
Publisher : Fakultas Agama Islam Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.18196/aiijis.2014.0028.17-31

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Western scholars on Sufism so far have paid more attention to Sufi figures that left us with many written works, either in the form of poems, biography, apologia, or mystical treatise. Practically, al-Jilani only left us with three original works, wherein we do not find any ‘brilliant theory’ about Sufism. So, at the face value, this Western academic indifference about al-Jilani is just plainly plausible. Al-Jilani’s marginal position in the Western academic studies on Sufism in fact is an indication of a subtler ideological bias among many scholars. This article examines the life and works of al-Jilani while proposing a new theoretical basis in the study of Sufism. The writer argues that al-Jilani’s teaching is popular Sufism by definition Keywords: al-Jilani, spirituality, popular sufism