Sufi Of Indonesia

Arifin, Miftah (2018) Sufi Of Indonesia. IAIN Jember Press dan Pustaka Pelajar, Jember. ISBN 978-602-414-078-6

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Abstract

Indeed, Discussing about Islam Indonesia is still very interesting and relevant up to day. In a relatively long period, Indonesia located in the outermost regions of Islamic world was regarded as Islamic periphery and different from the original form as well as in the Islamic Middle East. This view makes the studies about Indonesian Islam conducted by European scholars become unbalanced. Because, some Western scholars think that Indonesian literature that contains stories, fairy tales, chronicles, history and etc, are not enough to explain about Indonesia. In the opinion of western scholars, the most of Indonesian historiography contain s more about the myths rather tha historical data.
Therefore, it is easy to understand that the researchers who come later, usually prefer to western sources that written by Europeans who came to Indonesia as a nomad, journalists, missionaries, and imperialists. Although, they write about Islam Indonesia in their perspective that might not be objective. These writings, in turn, led to distortions and misconceptions in viewing Islam Indonesia. However, not all of the orientalists have done the same thing. Among of them have done it more objectively.

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