RELASI PENGETAHUAN ISLAM EKSOTERIS DAN ESOTERIS
Abstract: This article
scrutinizes the relationship of Islamic knowledge focusing on esoteric realm
and exoteric area or what so-called duality of life. Within intellectual
treasures of Islam this dualism have subsequ-ently beat each other. It is
sometimes in the form of friction between the scientific and non-scientific,
rational and spiritual, the sacred and the profane, theocentric and
anthropocentric. However, when carefully understood, the dualism shares the
same nature, namely outer and inner aspects. The outer is represented by
naming, while the inner can only be understood through the process of
interpretation. In other words, these two aspects are represented by two words
are name (outer aspect) and meaning (inner aspect). Therefore, Islam is present
and it attempts to draw both together. As can be observed in this century, the
mentality of modern humans seem to be eroded far from religious norms as people
have developed science which leads to religious emptying from its noble values.
Therefore, it is important to bring the esoteric realm into modern thought
which tends only to put emphasis on exoteric aspect.
Keywords: Islamic knowledge,
esoteric, exoteric
Penulis: Purwanto
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd120063
