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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 435 Documents
Aswaja and Al-Ma’un Theology in Brantas River Preservation: Local Muslim Environmental Activism and Indonesia’s Green Constitution Fannani, Bakhruddin; Rohmah, Siti; Ma'arif, A. Samsul; Nur Arifuddin
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): December
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.2025.15.2.350-377

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The severe degradation of the Brantas River Basin calls for a reorientation of the Aswaja theology of Nahdlatul Ulama and the Al-Ma’un theology of Muhammadiyah, shifting from a theo-anthropocentric social movement to a theo-ecocentric ecological movement. Despite the growing scholarship on Islamic environmentalism, little attention has been paid to local Muslim activism in Indonesia, articulating ecological theology while engaging the Green Constitution as a national legal framework. This article analyzes the theological constructions of Nahdliyyin Front for Natural Resources Sovereignty (Front Nahdliyin untuk Kedaulatan Sumber Daya Alam/FNKSDA) and the Muhammadiyah Green Cadres (Kader Hijau Muhammadiyah/KHM) activists in the context of preserving the Brantas River Basin. Employing a qualitative phenomenological approach, the study interprets lived experiences captured through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. The findings demonstrate that both FNKSDA and KHM support the Green Constitution through the ecological reinterpretation of Aswaja theology and Al-Ma’un theology. FNKSDA emphasizes that the local Muslim communities are responsible for protecting the environment by refraining from dumping household waste and actively opposing polluting industries. KHM considers that the areas of ecological wasteland require protection and support from the community, corporations, and the government. This study highlights how local theological-activist models can inform global Muslim communities in integrating religious doctrines into environmental policy.
Vernacular Cyber-Sufism: Digital Ritual, Mediated Authority, and the Naqshbandi Haqqani Order in Indonesia Wahyudi, M. Agus; Srimulyani, Eka; Shadiqin, Sehat Ihsan; Gumilang, Randi Muhammad
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): December
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.2025.15.2.406-428

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The article analyzes the incorporation of digital media within the Naqshbandi Haqqani Order in Indonesia and argues that it represents a significant transformation in contemporary Sufi practice. Based on qualitative interviews with members of local zāwiyahs, the study shows that digital platforms facilitate core tariqa practices, including online bay’a, virtual dhikr, and digital s}ah}ba. These practices demonstrate that digital space functions not merely as a medium of communication but as a legitimate site of ritual performance and spiritual experience. The findings challenge the conventional distinction between “religion online” and “online religion” by illustrating how barakah and spiritual authorization are reconfigured through technological mediation. The article contributes theoretically by introducing the concept of vernacular cyber-Sufism, in which local zāwiyahs act as espitemic intermediaries translating transnational Sufi authority into locally meaningful forms. This process reflects a pattern of negotiated authority shaped by the interaction of global charisma, local mediation, and platform visibility. At the same time, digital expansion produces ambivalent effects, simultaneously widening access to Sufi learning while raising concerns about authenticity and the commodification of knowledge.
Being ‘Muslim Waria’: Gender Nonconformity, Spiritual Belonging, and Ethical Ambiguity in a Javanese Pesantren Danugroho, Agus; Rustinsyah, Rustinsyah; Adib, Muhammad; Assalamah, Tuhfatul Mubarokah
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): December
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.2025.15.2.459-482

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This article investigates how young transgender Muslims at Pesantren Waria Al-Fatah in Yogyakarta cultivate religious devotion through what is conceptualized as “sacred disobedience,” a mode of piety that reconciles obedience to God with nonconformity to gendered norms. Drawing on 18 months of ethnographic fieldwork, the study demonstrates that acts of worship among waria are not merely forms of resistance but expressions of sincere faith that transform marginality into moral creativity. Integrating perspectives from Islamic ethics and postcolonial queer theory, the article illustrates how ambiguity, belonging, and devotion constitute an alternative theology grounded in compassion. The pesantren is shown to function as a spiritual community in which love, sincerity, and faith reconfigure prevailing understandings of purity, sin, and personhood. Through this lived religiosity, waria Muslims contribute to a renewed vision of Islam that embraces human plurality as a manifestation of divine mercy and ethical possibility. “Sacred disobedience” operates as a lived and embodied theology, wherein devotion emerges through ethical ambiguity rather than mere conformity. Their lived religious practice challenges binary frameworks of orthodoxy and deviance, revealing that piety may arise precisely through tension. Consequently, Islamic boarding schools appear as microcosms of a more inclusive Islam grounded in compassion.
The Spiritualization of Arabic Grammar: Theological Meaning-Making of Nahwu in a Salaf Pesantren in Indonesia Rohman, Abdul; Maksum, Ali; Wargadinata, Wildana
Teosofi: Jurnal Tasawuf dan Pemikiran Islam Vol. 15 No. 2 (2025): December
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.2025.15.2.483-507

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This article examines how Arabic grammar (nah}wu) is theologically reinterpreted as a medium for ethical and spiritual formation within a Salaf pesantren in Indonesia. In response to contemporary moral challenges confronting pesantren communities, the study explores a pedagogical approach known as Spiritual Nah}wu, developed at Pondok Pesantren Babussalam Pagelaran. Employing a phenomenological–hermeneutical methodology, the research analyzes how kiai and ustādh reconfigure nahwu from a technical–linguistic discipline into a spiritually grounded epistemology oriented toward tazkīyat al-nafs. Drawing on in-depth interviews, participant observation, and textual analysis, the findings demonstrate that grammatical categories are interpreted as symbolic representations of moral and spiritual states, enabling nah}wu to function as a mode of theological meaning-making and ethical internalization. This pedagogical model integrates cognitive, affective, and spiritual dimensions of learning, thereby challenging the modern separation between knowledge and morality. The article contributes to scholarship on Islamic education by illustrating how auxiliary Islamic sciences can serve as sites of epistemic agency and decolonial knowledge production rooted in pesantren traditions.
The Making of Spiritual Feminist Authority: Rethinking Women’s Religious Authority through Theological Anthropology Sulaiman, Sulaiman; Syukur, Suparman; Muhibbin, 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.2026.16.1.247-279

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Existing scholarship on Muslim women’s religious authority has predominantly explained legitimacy through institutional leadership, scriptural expertise, or charismatic influence, while paying limited attention to transcendental experience as a source of public religious authority. This study examines the writings of Nyai Masriyah Amva through documentary research, thematic content analysis, and Ricoeurian hermeneutics, integrating lived religion with theological anthropology to analyze how divine intimacy becomes socially recognized authority. The findings demonstrate that sustained encounters with the Divine are progressively translated into ritual discipline, symbolic mediation, ethical embodiment, and communal recognition, forming a recursive process through which religious legitimacy is constituted. Rather than functioning as private spirituality, transcendental experience becomes an epistemic resource that generates enduring moral credibility within the pesantren. The study advances the concept of spiritual feminist authority, repositioning transcendence as a constitutive dimension of women’s religious authority and offering a transferable analytical framework for understanding how lived spiritual experience is transformed into publicly recognized religious leadership across diverse religious contexts.