Preserving Traditional Islamic Thought and Practice:

Rohman, Rohman

Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture
Vol 2 No 1 (2015): January - June 2015

This paper tries to construct the role of the codified SÅ«rahYāsÄ«n and TaḥlÄ«l texts in Indonesia.The present paper also attempts to investigate the sequential aspects of the transmission of sÅ«rahYāsÄ«n from the single sÅ«rah until it is compiled with taḥlÄ«l texts and become widely used among traditionalist Muslims in Indonesia. The paper provides the faḍā’il al-a‘māl based on some muslim scholars. Some important questions will be dealt here, namely: why does sÅ«rah YāsÄ«n has a special position? How was sÅ«rahYāsÄ«n and taḥlÄ«l texts compiled in Indonesia? In this paper, I argue that the sÅ«rahYāsÄ«n compiled with taḥlÄ«l texts is sort of textual forms which preserve the traditional Islamic thought and practices in Indonesia. Keywords: SÅ«rahYāsÄ«n and TaḥlÄ«l