<![CDATA[Studies of Qur’anic exegesis in Indonesia have largely focused on Indonesian-language works addressed to broad readerships, while Arabic-language exegetical works produced by contemporary pesantren scholars have received more limited scholarly attention. This article examines Tafsir al-Mu‘taṣam by KH. Zamroji Halim, who wrote under the pen name Abdulhalim al-Halimi Abi Hatim al-Asham. The work is a two-volume Arabic tafsir produced within a pesantren milieu affiliated with the Shāfi‘ī school of law and the Naqshbandī Sufi order. Using a qualitative-descriptive approach and content analysis, this article examines the interpretations of QS. al-Wāqi‘ah [56]: 77–80 and QS. al-Mu’minūn [23]: 2 as two cases representing fiqhī and ṣūfī orientations. The operational criteria are developed from the classical genres of legal exegesis (tafsīr aḥkām) and Sufi exegesis. The findings show that both orientations are present in Tafsir al-Mu‘taṣam, with different methodological weight. The fiqhī orientation appears through a complete argumentative apparatus, including legal reasoning (istinbāṭ), the presentation of juristic disagreement (ikhtilāf), and references to legal school authority. The ṣūfī orientation appears through the technical vocabulary of spiritual states (aḥwāl), without a comparable development of allusive interpretation (ishārah) or unveiling (kashf). These findings position Tafsir al-Mu‘taṣam as a tafsir with a specific fiqhī orientation and a secondary ṣūfī element, rather than a combined orientation in Nashruddin Baidan’s strict typological sense. This pattern reflects an asymmetry in the author’s intellectual formation: jurisprudence was acquired through formal-textual pesantren education, while Sufism was inherited informally through family lineage. The article contributes to the study of knowledge production in contemporary Arabic-language pesantren exegesis by offering a model of internal orientational imbalance that remains underexplored in existing studies of pesantren tafsir.]]>
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