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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 424 Documents
Embodied Religious Knowledge in Javanese Sufism: Existential-Practical Hermeneutics and the Formation of Epistemic Authority Taufikin, Taufikin; Wahyudi, Chafid; Zulkifli Bin Mamat; Badawi, Habib
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): 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.2026.16.1.196-218

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This study examines how embodied religious knowledge is generated in Javanese Sufism through the dynamic interplay of bodily practice, social articulation, and negotiated epistemic authority. Moving beyond interpretations that reduce Sufi Kejawen to a syncretic culture, it investigates how tirakat, selametan, rukun, and unggah-ungguh function as interconnected processes through which embodied religious knowledge is produced, socially articulated, and legitimized. Using a hermeneutic-ethnographic approach, the article was conducted within the Tarekat Qadiriyyah wa Naqshbandiyyah (TQN) community in Indonesia through three months of fieldwork involving 20 participants, in-depth interviews, participant observation, and document analysis. The findings demonstrate that tirakat generates embodied religious knowledge through disciplined bodily practice, while communal rituals transform individual experience into socially recognized meanings that subsequently acquire legitimacy through ongoing negotiation with orthodox Islamic authority. The study proposes existential-practical hermeneutics as an analytical framework explaining how embodiment, social articulation, and negotiated legitimacy constitute an integrated process of epistemic authority formation in Javanese Sufism, thereby advancing scholarship on embodied religion, lived Islam, and contemporary Islamic authority.
Reconfiguring Sufi Ethics in Economic Life: Discursive Tradition and Moral Rationality in Contemporary Indonesian Tarekat Kurniawan, Ade Fakih; Saraswati, Henny; Soi, Andi Bahri; Megandani, Adi
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): 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.2026.16.1.114-136

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The relationship between Sufi ethics and economic rationality has long been framed as structurally incompatible, with classical concepts such as zuhd, faqr, ṣabr, and tawakkul interpreted as theological warrants for withdrawal from commercial life. Reinforced by Weber’s thesis on the absence of inner-worldly asceticism in Islam, this assumption has produced a persistent tendency to treat Sufism as economically passive. This article challenges that position by examining how these concepts are actively reconfigured within the economic practices of contemporary tarekat communities in Indonesia. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork combining participant observation, in-depth interviews, and classical textual analysis in the Tarekat Qādiriyyah wa Naqshbandiyyah (TQN) in Banten and the Tarekat Khalwatiyyah in South Sulawesi, this study finds that zuhd, faqr, ṣabr, and tawakkul are continuously reinterpreted to authorize disciplined, morally grounded economic engagement. To explain this transformation, the article deploys Talal Asad’s concept of discursive tradition alongside an integrated model of ideational and structural relations. The findings demonstrate that Sufi traditions articulate a distinct ethical rationality that motivates productive and ethically bounded economic conduct, constituting an empirical challenge to Weber’s Protestant-centric framework.
Theorizing Digital Religiosity: Post-Secular Islam, Platform Dynamics, and the Quba-Dirar Framework Arifin, Syamsul; Tung, Le Xuan; Wijaya, Rahmad; Zuhri, Achmad Muhibbin
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): 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.2026.16.1.115-165

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The secularization thesis is increasingly inadequate for explaining Islam’s expanding presence within Indonesia’s digital public sphere. This article addresses a critical limitation in contemporary digital Islam scholarship: while existing approaches effectively describe how religion operates across digital environments, they provide limited conceptual resources for evaluating whether such engagements advance or compromise Islam’s ethical and normative purposes. Drawing on post-secular theory, platform studies, and the normative-historical perspectives of Fazlur Rahman and M. Amin Abdullah, this study develops the Quba-Dirar heuristic, an evaluative framework derived from a Quranic historical paradigm. The framework distinguishes between forms of digital religiosity that cultivate ethical piety and social cohesion (Digital Quba) and those that instrumentalize religious symbols for polarization, political mobilization, or commercial gain (Digital Dirar). Applied to the Indonesian context, the analysis yields three principal findings. First, digital platformization has intensified the deprivatization of Islam within the public sphere. Second, algorithmic architectures have facilitated new configurations of religious authority through micro-celebrity actors operating beyond established scholarly institutions. Third, these transformations generate structural pressures toward Digital Dirar irrespective of individual institutions. The article argues for an integrative epistemology in Islamic studies that simultaneously combines empirical analysis and normative evaluation within a single analytical framework.
From Spiritual Crisis to Ecological Ethics: Ecosufism, Religious Authority, and Environmental Governance in Indonesia Rahman Hakim, Budi; Beck, Herman L.; Makruf, Jamhari
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 16 No. 1 (2026): 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.2026.16.1.114-143

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Contemporary Islamic ecotheology has advanced environmental responsibility through institutional reform and ethical reinterpretation of classical principles such as khilāfa and amāna, yet it remains structurally limited by its predominant focus on behavioral compliance rather than the prior conditions of ecological perception. This study addresses that gap by developing Ecosufism as an analytically grounded framework that extends Islamic ecotheology toward a Sufi metaphysical account of the human-nature relationship. Drawing on hermeneutic analysis of classical Sufi sources alongside critical engagement with Nasr, Rosa, Latour, and Weber, the study operationalizes the Tawḥīd–Tazkiyya–‘Amal triad as a functional model specifying the mechanisms through which ontological awareness, ethical self-purification, and embodied ecological action constitute a coherent and sequential process of ecological consciousness. Indonesian cases, including the 2025 Ekoteologi Islam initiative, FNKSDA activism, and Neo-Sufi movements, illustrate the triad’s analytical range while revealing a consistent structural gap between the perceptual transformation Ecosufism prescribes and the institutional conditions required to sustain it at the collective scale. The study contributes an original analytical model that repositions ecological crisis as a problem of ontological perception within Islamic thought.