Tradisi Hagiografi Sufi Yasawî: Relasi Tasawuf dan Politik

<p><em>Every method and approach in Islamic Studies currently available to us has</em></p><p><em>weaknesses in looking at religious data. For that reason, efforts to find better and more</em></p><p><em>integrative method are needed. One of the approaches that might be useful for Islamic</em></p><p><em>Studies is historical approach. Sufism in the meantime, has become an important part</em></p><p><em>of the history of Islam. Nonetheless, it is only recently that Sufism–as well as its origin,</em></p><p><em>change and development- become a subject of historical study. Hagiography has also</em></p><p><em>become a new trend in the historical study of Sufism. And one of the Sufis whose</em></p><p><em>hagiography has become an important subject of study is that of Ahmad Yasafi, a Sufi of</em></p><p><em>16</em><em>th </em><em>– 17</em><em>th </em><em>century. Hagiography is a kind of written sources that narrate the life of a</em></p><p><em>supposedly holy man and the legends related to him. According to Devin Dewees, the</em></p><p><em>hagiography of Ahmad Yasawi portrays the man’s personal and communal life, his</em></p><p><em>patronage with the ruler, the rituals of his tar</em><em>î</em><em>qah, and the legends related to him and his</em></p><p><em>order. This article –using historical approach- is a descriptive account of Ahmad Yasawi’s</em></p><em>hagiography.</em>