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Sufism as the Core of Islam: A Review of Imām Junayd Al-Baghdadī’s Concept of Taṣawwuf

Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism

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Title Sufism as the Core of Islam: A Review of Imām Junayd Al-Baghdadī’s Concept of Taṣawwuf
 
Creator Setiawan, Cucu
Maulani, Maulani
Busro, Busro
 
Subject Islam; Sufism; Junayd al-Baghdadī
 
Description This paper studies the thought of the Persian mystic Junayd al-Baghdadī, a prominent figure in the early development of Sufism (taṣawwuf). This study attempts to determine the relationship between Sufism and Islam and test the popular assumption that Sufi ideas and practices corrupt the original Islamic teachings and thus constitute innovation (bidʿa). This quantitative study focuses on the Rasāʿil Junayd (Epistles of Junayd) as the primary source of data and concludes that Sufism is not only based on authentic Islamic teachings but represents the spiritual core of Islam. Junayd al-Baghdadī formulated its three central concepts of the covenant (mīthāq), annihilation (fanāʾ), and unification (tawḥīd). He successfully reconciled the spiritual concepts of taṣawwuf and the legal concepts of fiqh and thus helped to free Sufism from the stigma of heresy and integrated it into mainstream Islam. 
 
Publisher Fakultas Ushuluddin dan Humaniora - UIN Walisongo Semarang
 
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Date 2020-10-30
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/teosofia/article/view/6170
10.21580/tos.v9i2.6170
 
Source Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism; Vol 9, No 2 (2020); 171-192
2540-8186
2302-8017
10.21580/tos.v9i2
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/teosofia/article/view/6170/pdf
 
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