TARJUMAN AL-ASYWAQ DAN APRESIASI IBNU ARABI PADA PEREMPUAN

Umdatul Baroroh (Peneliti di Fiqh Sosial Institute Pati)

Islamic Review : Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Keislaman
Vol 4 No 2 (2015): Islamic Review : Jurnal Riset dan Kajian Keislaman

Appreciative view of women in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages are still very rare. It was hard to find female figures in the field of science called Islam at that time. Therefore, the assumption that the teachings of Islam respects women sometimes still questioned by bebarapa groups less sympathetic to Islam. Efforts to maintain it was sometimes seem a little apologist. But the author's attention suddenly surprised by a figure of Sufism is quite controversial in his time that proves otherwise. He was Ibn Arabi, a Sufi unique with interesting thoughts. He wrote one of the works in the form of poetry that indulgence in his admiration for the feminine qualities of women. Not only that, it also gives meaning to God tajalli process involving feminine quality to the essence of the creation of this world.