<![CDATA[Santren is the name of a place that has been used as a center for religious teaching in Sasak society for a long time. This article tries to present a critique of the lack of attention today's society towards Santren as the earliest place to educate Sasak’s Muslim in religious matters. Furthermore, this article also explore the genealogy of Santren as a space for coaching mental and spiritual of Sasak people since Islam become the official religion of the Selaparang kingdom. Based on the theoretical basis of genealogy from Michel Foucault, this research was conducted by exploring historical data, criticizing phenomena and reality, with a new ethnographic approach in the form of self-reflexifity and truthfulness. The results of the author's findings revealed that the genealogy of Santren as a place of religious teaching was practiced from the early Islamic era in the Kingdom of Selaparang that receive Islam as the religion of Sasak community. Then, when the troops of Karangasem Kingdom, Bali reached the Kingdom of Selaparang, Santren turned in the basis of resistence, and also against Dutch, and Japan in colonialism era which centered in guru ngaji as the actor. Then, after the Independence of Indonesia, form of resistence transform against ignorance, backwardness, and poverty.]]>
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