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Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam
ISSN : 20887957     EISSN : 2442871X     DOI : 10.15642/teosofi
Core Subject : Religion, Social,
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam (ISSN 2088-7957, E-ISSN 2442-871X) diterbitkan oleh Program Studi Filsafat Agama Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Filsafat Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya pada bulan Juni 2011. Jurnal ini terakreditasi pada 3 Juli 2014 sesuai Keputusan Menteri Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia Nomor 212/P/2014. Jurnal yang terbit bulan Juni dan Desember ini, berisi kajian seputar tasawuf, pemikiran Islam, tafsir sufi, hadis sufi, maupun fiqh sufi.
Articles 420 Documents
Reframing Religious Experience through ‘Ālam al-Mithāl: A Philosophical and Mystical Perspective in Islamic Thought Al Walid, Kholid; Toresano, Waode Zainab Zilullah; Widjayanti, Rosmaria Syafariyah; Norman, Nurul Ain
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): June
Publisher : Department of Aqidah and Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2025.15.1.148-171

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This paper investigates the philosophical and mystical concept of ‘Ālam al-Mithāl (The Imaginal World) in Islamic thought as analternative framework for understanding religious experience. Despite the acknowledgement of its importance, contemporary discourse has yet to undertake a systematic philosophical inquiry into how ‘Ālam al-Mithāl, as a spiritual epistemology, provides rational grounds for affirming the objective reality and transformative capacity of religious experiences, surpassing interpretations that reduce such experiences to merely subjective or psychological interpretations. This research addresses this gap by analyzing how Mullā Ṣadrā’s ontological principle of Aṣālat al-wujūd (fundamentality of existence) and epistemological principle of Ittiḥād al-‘Āqil wa al-Ma‘qūl (union of the intellect and the intelligible) substantiate the objective reality of experiences within ‘Ālam al-Mithāl. The study further examines the essential role of ta’wīl (esoteric interpretation) in unveiling the deeper meanings of symbolic encounters in this realm. By integrating these philosophical principles, the paper demonstrates how ‘Ālam al-Mithāl offers a rigorous framework for validating religious experiences as genuine perceptual events within an objective, intermediate reality. This framework challenges reductionist modern paradigms and highlights the imaginal realm’s significance in self-realization and the acquisition of divine knowledge.
Integrating Mobile Health with Islamic Psychospiritual: Digital Approaches to Psychological and Spiritual Well-Being Ahmad Syahir, Aminun Nabil; Zainal Abidin, Mohd Syukri; Sa'ari, Che Zarrina; Mukaffa, Zumrotul
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): June
Publisher : Department of Aqidah and Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2025.15.1.229-258

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The rise of mobile health technologies has created new pathways for enhancing psychological and spiritual well-being. This research examines how mHealth can be aligned with Islamic psychospiritual principles to offer a comprehensive approach to mental health. By integrating digital solutions with Islamic values, mHealth applications can provide tailored mental health support and enhance spiritual resilience. Yet, these new technologies present concerns such as ethical management, safeguarding data privacy, and the risk of trivializing spiritual practices. This study examines these issues while showcasing the potential of mHealth as a means to connect traditional healthcare with faith-centered methods. The research highlights the need for appropriate digital strategies that engage religious leaders, policymakers, and mental health experts. Further studies should aim to create genuine, trust-centric frameworks that support accessibility, inclusivity, and responsible application of technology. Effectively merging mHealth with Islamic psychospiritual principles can transform mental health support, promoting a balanced and meaningful sense of well-being within Muslim communities across the globe.
Zuhd and Mahabbah: Liberating Modern Society from Spiritual Desolation and Moral Decadence Zaprulkhan, Zaprulkhan; Abas, Zainul; Sarif, Akbar
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): June
Publisher : Department of Aqidah and Islamic Philosophy, Faculty of Ushuluddin and Philosophy, Sunan Ampel State Islamic University Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2025.15.1.205-228

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This paper discusses the significance of zuhd and maḥabbah in addressing the spiritual desolation and moral decadence of modern society. It explores the Sufistic approach to dealing with soul sickness, manifested in rising levels of spiritual anxiety and moral degradation. Zuhd functions as an internal mechanism for curbing negative impulses and immoral behaviors, while maḥabbah offers a counterbalance to materialism and self-centeredness by fostering love for others and for God. This literature-based study critically examines the Sufistic concepts as part of a social discourse on the spiritual emptiness and its effects on modern society. The study finds that a stronger emphasis on zuhd and maḥabbah can bring existential peace through ascetic practices, moral guidance, and community engagement. Islam is a holistic religion and a way of life, which loses its positive role in Muslim society if it does not support physical, moral, and spiritual restoration. This concern is especially urgent in an age where moral inversions—where right is perceived as wrong and wrong is right—have become increasingly normalized.
Mysticism and Resistance: The Nature and Relevance of Ki Ageng Mangir’s Struggle Against the Mataram Sultanate Wijaya, Wijaya; Rusli, Ris'an; Utami, Devi Aulia; Azwar, Alfi Julizun
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2025.15.1.259-287

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This article critically examines the role of the legendary king Ki Ageng Mangir, who challenged the supremacy of the Sultanate of Mataram in sixteenth-century Java. Through a historical and semiotic approach, this study highlights how Ki Ageng Mangir combined Sufistic values, local traditions, as well as Islamic, Hindu, and Buddhist elements in his resistance against the expansionist Mataram sultanate. The Sufi path functioned as an instrument of legitimacy and effective symbolic resistance to the homogenization of ideology and political control. Values such as patience, sincerity, and God-reliance were the moral values that formed the character of Ki Ageng Mangir’s model of resistance, in contrast to the centralistic model of Panembahan Senopati and the integrative model of Sunan Kalijaga. This study found that local spirituality can serve as a means of individual enlightenment as well as the foundation for collective identity and communal resistance. Resistance to power hegemony can be manifested through meaningful religious and cultural expressions, affirming the relevance of traditional spirituality as the basis for legitimacy, identity, and resistance.
Religious Science and Scientific Religion: Reimagining Religion-Science Relations in Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Thought Lutfi, Muhammad; Mukhammad Zamzami; Abd A’la; Khalimatu Nisa
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 1 (2025): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2025.15.1.172-204

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The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the persistent tension between religion and science in Indonesia, as different perspectives have emerged on issues such as vaccination, restrictions on worship, and public health protocols. This moment of crisis underscores the broader epistemological gulf between religious belief and scientific reasoning, reigniting the debate about their respective roles in addressing existential and social challenges. Responding to this complex landscape, Haidar Bagir and Ulil Abshar Abdalla have articulated two conceptual frameworks of religious science and scientific religion that aim to redefine the relationship between religion and science. This article critically analyzes the arguments using John Haught’s taxonomy of conflict, contrast, contact, and confirmation. Haidar Bagir’s views emphasize respectful differentiation and dialogical engagement in the form of contrast and contact, while Ulil Abshar Abdalla envisions a more harmonious interaction that affirms mutual legitimacy in the form of confirmation. Both thinkers reject the absolutism of modern scientism and call for religious thought to be more responsive to scientific developments. This study highlights the urgency of fostering epistemological synergy so that religion and science can face the ethical and intellectual challenges of our time together.
From Practice to Metaphysics: The Evolution of Spiritual Stations in Ibn ‘Arabī’s Thought Aljahsh, Muhammad Ahmad Ibrahim
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): December
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2025.15.2.289-312

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Classical Sufi manuals present the spiritual stages achieved through disciplined Sufi practice. This article argues that the seventh/thirteenth-century mystic Muh}yī al-Dīn Ibn ‘Arabī reimagined the spiritual stations as ontological realities rather than behavioral achievements. Through a systematic reading of the twenty-second chapter of his Meccan Revelations in dialogue with his fellow Sufi gnostics, it shows that Ibn ʿArabī recast sequential progress into metaphysical loci of divine self-disclosure. The analysis identifies a triadic architecture of cosmic, spiritual, and ontological stations, where the stations function as a holographically interlinked field rather than a linear ladder. This reframing marks the transition from a “first mystical tradition” centered on ethical discipline to a “second mystical tradition” oriented by ontological insight. The conclusion sketches implications for Islamic metaphysics, including the Sadrian synthesis, and suggests how the Akbarian model offers transferable tools for comparative work on mystical experience across traditions.
Beyond the Sharia-Mysticism Divide: Wali Agency and the Vernacularization of Islam in Javanese Manuscripts of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Djamil, Abdul; Junaidi, Akhmad Arif
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2026.16.1.30-60

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Existing scholarship on Javanese Islamic mysticism tends to portray the Javanese saints (wali) as firm proponents of Sharia who systematically opposed mystical practice. The article challenges that characterization by examining the present and development of mystical tendencies in Javanese Islamic texts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on hermeneutic and historical approaches, the study analyzes the triadic relationship between text, reader, and context, alongside the manuscript’s historical condition of production. Two primary factors are identified as shaping this phenomenon. First, the geographic relocation of political authority from the coastal, cosmopolitan Demak Sultanate to the inland agrarian polities of Pajang and Mataram created social conditions conducive to the elaboration of Manunggaling Kawulo-Gusti (the union of servant and God), a concept central to Javanese Islamic mysticism. Second, the wali functioned not merely as defenders of Sharia but as agents of religious transformation who deliberately integrated Javanese mystical frameworks with Islamic practices, recognizing that a legalistic approach was insufficient in agrarian social contexts. The article argues that the successful Islamization of Java was contingent upon the vernacularization of Islamic teaching through Javanese cultural and mystical idioms. This reframing directly contests prior scholarship that positioned the wali as opponents of mysticism.
Theology, Reason, and Science Beyond Syntesis: Constructing a Third Space of Islamic Knowledge in Colonial Minangkabau Rais, Zaim; Syukri, Ahmad; Ashadi, Andri; Hadi, Rahmad Tri
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2026.16.1.61-83

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This study examines how Ibrahim Musa Parabek (1883-1963) integrated theology, rationalism, and empirical science within the colonial intellectual context of early twentieth-century Minangkabau. Departing from dichotomous and synthetic frameworks that dominate existing scholarship on Islamic modernism, this paper argues that his epistemological project constitutes a structured form of epistemic hybridity produced within a localized Third Space. Drawing on Bhabha’s theoretical apparatus of hybridity, mimicry, and Third space, and employing thematical-content analysis of primary texts, historical-contextual reconstruction, and hermeneutic-philosophical synthesis, this study identifies three operative mechanisms in Ibrahim’s thought: domain differentiation (taqsīm al-majāl), hierarchical ordering of knowledge sources (tartīb), and functional mimicry of rational-scientific procedures. Analysis of Ijābat al-Sūl, Hidāyat al-Ṣibyān, and Thawalib Parabek teaching manuscripts demonstrates that reason was granted bounded cognitive authority in worldly domains while revelation retained exclusive normative jurisdiction. These findings reconceptualize hybridity as epistemic modulation, reframe Thawalib Parabek as a productive institution of Islamic knowledge production, and demonstrate that alternative modernities can be constructed from within Islamic doctrinal traditions without compromising their foundational premises.
Kurdish Scholarly Networks and the Making of Indonesian Islamic Orthodoxy: Textual Transmission, Epistemological Negotiation, and Sunni Intellectual Formation Zulkifli, Zulkifli; Fahri, Muhamad; Suwaidi, Ahmad
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2026.16.1.1-29

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Islamic orthodoxy in Indonesia has been substantially shaped by the transregional transmission of scholarly texts produced outside the Arab core. This study examines how the works of five Kurdish ulama, namely Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī, Ja‘far al-Barzanjī, Muḥammad b. Sulaymān al-Kurdī, Muḥammad Amīn al-Kurdī, and Bediuzzaman Said Nursi were transmitted to and appropriated within the Indonesian Muslim context. Employing a historical-anthropological and literature approach, this study traces the intellectual networks connecting these scholars to Jawi students through the Haramayn and Cairo as primary nodes of scholarly exchange. The findings demonstrate that Kurdish scholarly texts were not received passively; rather, they underwent active epistemological negotiation through philological practices including ḥāshiya, sharḥ, and interlinear translation across manuscript, print, and digital periods. This transmission reinforced the Ash‘ari-Shāfi‘ī-Sufi synthesis that defines Indonesian Sunni orthodoxy, while enabling adaptation into local devotional rituals and ethical literacy movements. Theoretically, this study challenges the center-periphery model in global Islamic studies by repositioning the Kurdish scholarly tradition as an autonomous and productive transregional axis in the intellectual formation of Indonesian Islam.
Platformizing Islamic Political Legitimacy across the 2014-2024 Indonesian Election: Rearticulating Authority and Morality in Digital Democracy Gumilar, Setia; Nurdin, Ahmad Ali; Rahman, M. Ridha Taufiq
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): June
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/teosofi.2026.16.1.84-113

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Digital platforms have structurally reconfigured the conditions under which Islamic parties produce and contest political legitimacy in electoral democracies. This article examines how platformization transformed the campaign discourse of two major Indonesian Islamic parties, PKS and PKB, across the 2014, 2019, and 2024 general elections. Using Facebook posts from the official accounts of PKS, PKB, and Kompas as an issue-control corpus, the study applies a qualitative, comparative, diachronic framework that integrates platformization theory, the hybrid media system perspective, Entman’s framing analysis, Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis, and van Leeuwen’s legitimation theory. The findings demonstrate that Islamic party discourse became progressively platform-oriented across three electoral cycles, characterized by increasing hashtag adoption, modular slogans, and explicit calls to action. More significantly, the dominant legitimating resources shifted from organizational mobilization and procedural credibility in 2014, to religious endorsement and communal symbolism in 2019, to welfare claims and democratic ethics in 2024. These findings indicate that platformized Islamic politics in Indonesia constitutes selective rearticulation rather than de-Islamization, as the moral vocabulary of Islam is continuously reformulated into forms more compatible with platform legibility and mass electoral resonance.