{"title":"Discovering the Legacy of Mandailing Ulama: Education, Intellectuals, and Politics in North Sumatra in the Early 20th Century","authors":"Ja’far Ja’far, Mhd. Syahnan, Asrul Asrul, Zaini Dahlan, Sakti Ritonga","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i2.502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i2.502","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the role of Mandailing ulama in education, intellectuals, and politics in the early 20th century. Ulama plays a critical role in safeguarding the morality of Muslim society (umma). Drawing upon the historical approach, it employed Kuntowijoyo model of writing history stages and Anthony Giddens' structuration theory to analyze the problems that this study intends to answer. This study argues that the social structure surrounding the Mandailing ulama enabled them to address religious and other sociocultural issues. This study also unveiled that the Mandaling ulama in the early 20th century mobilized the organizations, such as Al Washliyah (1930), Al-Ittihadiyah (1935), and Nahdlatul Ulama (1918) to promote the education of the indigenous people, fortify the Sunni school of thought from the heretical and influence of Dutch colonial government. It was manifested by supporting only two Islamic political parties: the Masjumi Party and the Nahdlatul Ulama Party. This suggests that Ulama were not only religious scholars who acquired knowledge of Islamic norms and disseminated them through religious and educational institutions, such as madrasa and pesantren, but also active agents in socio-political transformation within the Muslim community.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44043362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i2.548
Fransiska Widyawati
{"title":"Being a Muslim In a Catholic Family and Vice Versa: Religious Education in Mixed-Faith Families in Flores, Eastern Indonesia","authors":"Fransiska Widyawati","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i2.548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i2.548","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores religious education and identity formation among families within mixed-faith families in Flores, Eastern Indonesia, specifically, Muslim-Catholic families. This ethnographic research observes and holds in-depth interviews with eight mixed-faith families comprising four to eight family members. This study finds that mixed-faith families continue to carry out the process of faith education and identity formation for all their members. However, the presence of family members with different religions gives a distinctive character because there are always negotiations, adaptations, and even transformations. The form, intensity, and model of faith education between families differ depending on the context of a mixed-faith family formation, one's position and power in the family, one's way of thinking about religion, and the spiritual environment around the family. Faith education in a mixed-faith family can positively deepen faith, strengthen religious identity, increase knowledge about other religions, foster tolerance, and appreciate diversity. This can also fade away the identity and belief of the minority and even can lead to conversion. However, the bond of family love does not cause differences, fights and conversions into one meaningful conflict.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43145556","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i2.518
Jajat Burhanudin
{"title":"The Popularizing of Sunni Doctrine In Southeast Asia: Sifat Dua Puluh in Malay Kitab Jawi of the 19th Century","authors":"Jajat Burhanudin","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i2.518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i2.518","url":null,"abstract":"Sifat dua puluh (twenty attributes of God) is a specific Malay term to convey the doctrine of Sunni tradition in Southeast Asia. Formulated to digest the substance of a renowned book of Yusūf al-Sanūsī, Umm al-Barāhīn, this term began to appear in the 19th century as a leading Islamic theme in the kitab jawi of Malay scholars in Mecca. The scholars translated the book into Malay and expounded its contents in the form of commentaries (sharḥ), a rising style of writing kitab jawi on the doctrine of the period. Malay scholars' use of the term in Mecca was transmitted and then reproduced alongside the printing of kitab jawi in Southeast Asia. This process led the Sunni theology to constitute an Islamic orthodoxy in the region. This article presents a historical analysis of how sifat dua puluh became an established concept of Sunni theology in the Southeast Asian context, putting the mentioned work of al-Sanūsī as the source of the production of Sunni creeds in a popularly vernacular expression of the Muslims in the region.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67536550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i2.535
M. Huda, Sultan Salem
{"title":"Understanding Human Behavior Development with Spirituality: Critical Insights into Moral Flourishing","authors":"M. Huda, Sultan Salem","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i2.535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i2.535","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the flourishing of moral enhancement through a critical investigation of Al-Zarnūjī’s Ta‘lim al-Muta‘allim. The critical reviews of the literature from refereed and peer-reviewed articles were employed using thematic topic analysis on the flourishing of moral enhancement with a special reference to Al-Zarnūjī's Ta‘lim al-Mutallim, in giving an insightful value to spiritual engagement. The results show that the subsequent phase of moral flourishing with spirituality comes from niyyah (goal-oriented commitment) as the enhanced enthusiasm derived from the continued consistency of doing goodness in the human morality indicator. This is followed with faqīhan mutawarri‘an (clear comprehension with carefulness) as comprehending personal behaviour with knowledge and moral quality. The following point supported muwāḍabah (thorough attempts) as the expansion of wide-ranging performance made for moral development and continued into sustaining individual behavioural growth with a spiritual quality. Furthermore, a discussion of implications serves to contribute to human behavioural development, with spirituality detailed into moral behaviour through spiritual quality enhancement, as well as the continued awareness of ethical behaviour sustainability and knowledgeable practice quality progression.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45981772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-08-30DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.488
Dahlia Hidayati
{"title":"Online Sufism and Reestablishing Religious Authority","authors":"Dahlia Hidayati","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i1.488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i1.488","url":null,"abstract":"ONLINE SUFISM AND REESTABLISHING RELIGIOUS AUTHORITY \u0000Recent burgeoning assumptions claim that long-established traditional authorities are professed to diminish due to the rapid advancement of information media technologies. New and more flexible and democratic authorities have dismantled the abovementioned old power. However, contemporary social media transmission does not eradicate these religious authorities, particularly in the realm of Sufism. Sufi figures generally use cyberspace technologies to disseminate and reinforce their doctrines. Based on Weber's theory of charismatic authority, this study examined the authority features manifested by the Sufism figure Habib Luthfi bin Yahya from Pekalongan Indonesia on social media networks. It is encapsulated that the Islamic mystical school of thought is no longer maintained through direct or offline practices, but it has increasingly evolved into an online community. \u0000 \u0000Keywords: Media, authority, sufism, online, cyberspace.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41862589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.483
M. Rusydi, Muhammad Syafi'i, M. Rafi
{"title":"Nūr Muhammad Urang Banjar as Sufistic Psychotherapy","authors":"M. Rusydi, Muhammad Syafi'i, M. Rafi","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i1.483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i1.483","url":null,"abstract":"This field research with descriptive qualitative method aims to reveal the relationship between philosophical Sufism and psychology, namely the teachings of Nūr Muhammad in the Banjar Society with sufistic psychotherapy. It is found that the teachings of Nūr Muhammad who lived in the Banjar community are present through the books of sufism, recitation, and the tradition of qasidah or maulid poetry. Through the perspective of sufistic psychotherapy, Nūr Muhammad played the role of haqīqah al-haqāiq for consciousness therapy, Nūr Muhammad as jam’ al-jama for the development of love and crace therapy, Nūr Muhammad in shalawat as sound therapy and peace of mind.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49140592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-07-28DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.485
Faizal Amin
{"title":"Kitab Rukun Istinjak: Integration of Fiqh and Sufism in the Early 19th Century of West Borneo Hinterland","authors":"Faizal Amin","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i1.485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i1.485","url":null,"abstract":"Kitab Rukun Istinjak [Book on the Procedure for Cleaning the Private Parts after Relieving Oneself] is a manuscript that originated from interior Borneo of West Kalimantan in the early 19th century. The text describes the concepts of fiqh [Islamic jurisprudence], which provides not only technical explanations for the implementation of rituals but also a description of philosophical concepts for the consumption of the heart/soul. The context of the private collection of manuscripts is for a minimal audience, namely the sālik [follower of Sufism] who study and practice the teachings of Sufism in the way of Nūr Muḥammad [Light of Muhammad]. This Rukun Istinjak manuscript records Islamic teachings, which show the integration of Islamic jurisprudence into Islamic mysticism, which initially developed in hinterland Borneo. Even though the text indicates the existence of Sufistic-style Islamic teachings adopted by the indigenous Muslim community of West Kalimantan in the Putussibau area, in particular, there are no clues that explain their affiliation or relations with a specific tariqa order.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45415437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-07-12DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.474
D.I. Ansusa Putra
{"title":"Recognizing an Islamic Hero: The Quran-Hadith's Vision about Muhammad al-Fatih In Indonesian Comics","authors":"D.I. Ansusa Putra","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i1.474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i1.474","url":null,"abstract":"This study highlights the different Qur'an-Hadith visions regarding Islamic heroism in the Muslim community, especially in Indonesia. The lack of attention of Islamic scholars to the concept of heroism was significant, emphasized by analyzing the heroism of Muhammad al-Fatih in Indonesian Islamic comics, using the socio-heroism theory of Kristian Frisk. Critical discourse analysis reviews the relation of the Qur'an-Hadith visions in the Muhammad al-Fatih comic with the social discourse of heroism in Indonesia. Furthermore, this study concludes that Islamic heroism is recognized based on two aspects, namely the transcendental recognition from the information of the Qur'an-Hadith vision and the inherent recognition from the Muslim community. It also discovered that Islamic comics in Indonesia introduce the heroism of Muhammad al-Fatih due to several factors and objectives. First is the long-standing relationship with the Turkish community. Second, the Islamic heroism in Muhammad al-Fatih's actions is considered a sign of Islamic glories and brilliance. Third, his victory is considered by some groups as an example and a positive role model for Muslims from various aspects. Therefore, this research will significantly contribute to the knowledge of future Islamic scholars about Islamic heroism, the Quran-Hadith vision, and the study of religious comics, especially in Indonesia.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44210409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-07-04DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.448
A. Rahim
{"title":"Between Piety and Lifestyle : Hijab Syar’i on the Commodification Practices of Islamic Culture Industry","authors":"A. Rahim","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i1.448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i1.448","url":null,"abstract":"The syar'i hijab has become a global fashion product targeting Muslim women, nowadays it is part of the cultural industry that is captured by capitalism in pursuit of profit. The syar'i hijab that displays visualization of the discourse of piety and beauty makes consumption practices an effort to articulate the identity of Muslim women for religious observance. Massive distribution through the media or fashion show events is part of the visualization of the lifestyle of fashion fans which is echoed for the perpetuation of capitalism in the circulation of production, distribution and consumption of hijab products which is echoed through the discourse of covering the genitals according to syar'i. . Consumption of hijab product brands shows social class to differentiate themselves. This often leads to aesthetic violence in an effort to match the tastes of the lower class to force them to buy hijab products with the same brand as the figure they idolize. Consumption practices that show the articulation of Muslim women's identities in religious discourse are increasingly being captured by capitalism in an effort to create changes in hijab modes. The concept of obsolescence planning is part of production management for hijab product offerings that continue to grow, and capitalism is increasingly hidden behind the discourse of piety.","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41899940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
UlumunaPub Date : 2022-07-02DOI: 10.20414/ujis.v26i1.481
A. Widodo, Dwi Purbowati
{"title":"From Ritual Theory To a Spiritual Biology: Prayer and the Activation of Chakras-Hormones in Human Metabolism","authors":"A. Widodo, Dwi Purbowati","doi":"10.20414/ujis.v26i1.481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.20414/ujis.v26i1.481","url":null,"abstract":"Prayer as one of the essentials of human beings as \"homo Deus\", has become the object of studies from diverse perspectives: theosophical, sociological, psychological, phenomenological, and even political. This study will, however, shed light on this issue from another angle, namely a bio-spiritual standpoint, since the human being is made up of psycho-somatic features, or body, mind, and soul, with particular reference precisely to the human metabolism: endocrine system. This article will argue that human hormones, which have a pivotal role in human metabolism, are related to seven glands. These glands are actively managed to be stipulated by the activation of seven subtle energy centers, chakras, which can be done, among other things, by prayer (ṣalāh). To say the other way round, prayer (ṣalāh) will activate the seven chakras that will, in turn, stimulate the seven glands of the human endocrine system and will eventually boost the hormones that are significant for human life. In this way, this study will provide more illustration where \"Scientia Sacra\" (sacred science), concerning prayer (ṣalāh), meets \"profane\" science in a sort of \"spiritual biology.\"","PeriodicalId":55654,"journal":{"name":"Ulumuna","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42970252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}