This paper is an attempt to study the scholars‟ network of Mandailing Ulama with those of Haramayn in the mid-19thand early 20thcentury. Employing the content analysis methodthe research finds thatthe Mandailing scholars had made an intellectual encounterwith the scholars in Haramayn, even some of theestablished networks with Egyptian and Indian scholars. The Mandailing scholars connotethose...Read More

This paper utilizes a content study to clarify the concepts and relationship between sharicah, tariqah, haqiqah, and marifah by Wan Sulaiman b. Wan Siddik, a Malay Sufi scholar in 19th in the Malay world. He clarifies these four terminologies in his epistle Mizan al-uqala’ wa al-udaba’ due to many misconceptions about this matter by his...Read More

Intuitional insight or mystical cognition is a different insight from common, concrete and intellectual insights. This kind of insight is not achieved by visionary contemplation but by recitation of God, selfpurification and mystical life. In this insight there is no distance or medium between subject of cognition and its object and they have a sort...Read More

Freedom is a concept that mystics, politics, and political philosophers granted anespecial attention to its nature and identity. In the work of Muslim, the interpredation of freedom and liberty has been repeated several times in its moralconductive meaning and visible and invisible barriers and the way of freedom frombondages are represented In this paper, the...Read More