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Preserving Traditional Islamic Thought and Practice: The Codified SūrahYāsīn and Taḥlīl Texts in Indonesia

Introduction

Preserving traditional islamic thought and practice: the codified sūrahyāsīn and taḥlīl texts in indonesia. Explore the role of codified Sūrah Yāsīn and Taḥlīl texts in preserving traditional Islamic thought and practices among Indonesian traditionalist Muslims.

Abstract

This paper tries to construct the role of the codified SūrahYāsīn and Taḥlīl texts in Indonesia.The present paper also attempts to investigate thesequential aspects of the transmission of sūrahYāsīn from the single sūrahuntil it is compiled with taḥlīl texts and become widely used amongtraditionalist Muslims in Indonesia. The paper provides the faḍā’il al-a‘mālbased on some muslim scholars. Some important questions will be dealthere, namely: why does sūrah Yāsīn has a special position? How wassūrahYāsīn and taḥlīl texts compiled in Indonesia? In this paper, I argue thatthe sūrahYāsīn compiled with taḥlīl texts is sort of textual forms whichpreserve the traditional Islamic thought and practices in Indonesia.

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