SUFISM AND HYBRID SPIRITUALITY

Main Authors: Hajam, Hajam, Sanusi, Anwar, Padiarta, Aditya Muara
Format: Article info application/pdf Journal
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah Tulungagung State Islamic University , 2019
Online Access: http://ejournal.iain-tulungagung.ac.id/index.php/epis/article/view/1676
http://ejournal.iain-tulungagung.ac.id/index.php/epis/article/view/1676/pdf
Daftar Isi:
  • This article aims to discuss a Sufi-inspired traditional art and performance popular in Cirebon, the so-called “Brai”. The Brai is a traditional Islamic Sufism music popular among the Cirebonese. This traditional music combines sounds, lyrics, and dance that invite the practitioners and audiences to exercise the spiritual stages through music. The Brai performance follows the hierarchy of Sufi-state of minds and spiritual stages (suluk and raka’at). Thus, as this article argues, the Brai is a par excellence model for the entanglement between Islam and local culture. The Brai is indeed a way of the Cirebonese both to introduce Sufi-form of Islam and provides a performance where the profane arts and spiritual-Islamic Sufims are mutually entangled.