Jajang A Rohmana
Biographic Data
| ID | 929667 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jajang A Rohmana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jajang A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rohmana |
| SIGNATURE | ROHMANA J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University Bandung |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3377-7169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Interpretation of Gender Verses According to Imam Al-Tabarī and Asma Barlas
This study discusses the differences in interpretation of gender verses in Islam based on the interpretation of Jāmi’ al-Bayān by Imam al-Ṭabarī and Believing Women in Islam by Asma Barlas. The main focus of this study is the analysis of Qs. An-Nisā’ [4]: 1 on the creation of women, Qs. An-Nisā’ [4]: 3 on polygamy, and Qs. An-Nisā’ [4]: 34 on male leadership and nusyuz. This study uses the muqāran (comparative) interpretation method and Hans-Geor…
Spiritual Motivation in the Quran
Religion and spirituality are intertwined, with spirituality at the core of religious experience. Recent studies highlight the connection between spirituality and mental health, self-efficacy, and self-respect. In 2001, Ary Ginanjar Agustian introduced ESQ 165, a religious phenomenon aimed at enhancing human resources through spirituality. However, this concept faced criticism from some Islamic scholars, including Malaysian mufti Datuk Hj. Wan Za…
Translating Sacred Scriptures in Sundanese
This study critically examines the various characteristics of the Sundanese translations of the Bible and the Qur’an. It focuses on two translations of each scripture—S. Coolsma’s 1891 and the LAI 1991 editions of the Bible, alongside Miwah Tarjamahna (2002) and MORA (2020) translations of the Qur’an. Using library research and employing Venuti’s theory of foreignization-domestication, as well as Vermeer’s Skopos theory, this study examines lingu…
Sundanese "kitāb" printed in early-twentieth-century Egypt as evidence of Islamic transregional networks
This article will focus on Sundanese literacy as observed in the Islamic transregional networks established between the Middle East and West Java in the early twentieth century. Sundanese kitāb printed in Egypt by three Sundanese ulama reflect an increasingly intensive use of the Sundanese language in Islamic teaching in West Java compared to the earlier predominant use of Javanese. There is also a shift on the part of Sundanese ulama from manusc…
Qur’an Translation and Reformist daʿwa
Qur'an translation was an important element of the daʿwa activities of reformist Muslims in West Java at the beginning of the twentieth century, as is reflected in the publication of the Sundanese translation of Ahmad Hassan's Tafsir Al-Foerqan, as well as other Qur'an translations penned by his friends and associates. These Sundanese translations not only promote a reformist ideology, but also demonstrate a shift in the formation of translation …
Risālat al-Sheikh Asnāwī al-Quds al-Jāwī
This article is carried out to discuss the rebuttal of Jawi ulama, K.H. Raden Muḥammad Asnawi Kudus (1861-1959), against the fatwa of the muftī of Mecca, Sheikh ‘Abdullāh al-Zawāwī (1850-1925), in the early twentieth century. Asnawi’s rebuttal was written in an Arabic manuscript from Banyuwangi entitled Risālat al-Sheikh Asnawī al-Quds al-Jāwī and digitized by the DREAMSEA project DS 0042 00001. The pages contain rebuttal of Asnawi against al-Zaw…
C. Snouck Hurgronje dan Wajah Islamnya
Snouck
Qur'anic Interpretation in the Form of Sundanese Poetry
This article focuses on Quranic interpretation in the form of Sundanese poetry or Sundanese nadoman. The object is Kitāb al-Tabyīn al-Ajlá wa al-Ahlá fī Tafsīr Sūrah al-A'lá written by K.H. Ahmad Dimyati (1886-1946) a famous scholar from the Sukamiskin Islamic Boarding School (Pesantren) in Bandung. This book is a tafsir of surah al-A'la (Q.87: 1-19) in Sundanese with pegon style letters. Compared to Qur'anic translations, poeticized forms of int…
Menjaga Sastra Sunda, Menempuh Jalan Spiritualitas Berbeda
Sundanese people lost one of the main guardians of their culture, Ajip Rosidi (1938-2020). He is a writer who has a great contribution in the treasure of Indonesian and regional literature. One of his important contributions is preserving the legacy of the works of Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930), the greatest Sundanese poet who lived during the colonial period. This study focuses on Ajip’s contribution to Hasan Mustapa’s works. The source is Ajip…
Reformist Muslim Discourse in the Sundanese Commentary of the Qur’ān
This article focuses on reformist Muslim discourse in the Sundanese commentary of the Qur’ān or tafsīr, entitle Sababaraha Naséhat Tina Qur’an Surat al-Hudjurot, some advice of sūrah Al-Hujurāt (1971). The book was written by E. Abdurrahman (1912-1983), an activist of a reformist Islamic organization, Islamic Union (Persatuan Islam or Persis). He has been a chairman of Persis from 1962-1983. They have a slogan “back to the Qur’ān and Hadīth” as w…
Al-Sajā’ir wa shabakat al-‘ulamā’ al-Miṣrīyīn fī Nusantara
This study reveals on fatwas concerning cigarettes in the Archipelago in the 19th century. The primary source is an Arabic manuscript from Kuningan, West Java, digitized by DREAMSEA, entitled “Bāb fī Bayān Ḥukm Shurb al-Dukhān”. It does not only use arguments from sharia, the interpretation of ulama, and health reasons but also refers to myths and conspiracies. This study finds that this manuscript mentions the existence of ḥaram (prohibited) and…
Colonial informants and the Acehnese-Dutch war
This article discusses the contribution of colonial informants during the Acehnese-Dutch war (1873–c.1912) in responding to Teuku Umar’s collaboration with the Dutch authorities. The object of this study is a collection of letters from the Chief Penghulu of Kutaraja (1893–1895), Haji Hasan Mustapa, to his colonial friend, C. Snouck Hurgronje. These letters are held at the Leiden University Library (Cod. Or. 18.097). Hasan Mustapa’s name is rarely…
Tafsir Al-Qur’an dari dan untuk Orang Sunda
This article examines the peculiarities of one of Sundanese tafsirs or Qur’anic commentaries in West Java, Moh. E. Hasim’s Ayat Suci Lenyepaneun. Using discourse analysis approach, this study illustrates how the author arranges his interpretation in line with Sundanese culture and socio-religious background in modern Indonesia. There are some characteristics of Hasim’s Lenyepaneun: nuances of Sundanese literature and nature, Sundanese daily stori…
Authorship of the Jawi ‘Ulama’ in Egypt
Nawawī of Banten (1813–1897) and Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852–1930) are two important figures of Malay-Indonesian Muslim scholars (‘ulamā’) who have been widely studied. However, personal proximity of these two ‘ulamā’ seems to escape from scholarly discussion. Seen from the light of scholarly commenting (sharh) tradition, this study on the other hand attempts to show their personal proximity between the senior teacher and young student when they liv…
Ayat Suci Lenyepaneun and Social Critiques
One of the main objectives of the tafsr (Quranic interpretation) is to explain its Quranic contents to readers. In fact, tafsr also demonstrates an interaction between writers of tafsr and their socio-context where they lives. In Sundanese region, Moh. E. Hasim also criticised the New Order's policies when he wrote his tafsr called Ayat Suci Lenyepaneun. What are his critiques? How did he make critiques when at the same time he was writing the ta…
Tafsīr filantropīyat al-Qur’ān al-Karīm fī Indonesia
This article discusses the Quranic exegesis concerning social care that is used as a base-praxis for philanthropy and social gatherings in the colonial period. The object of this study is Tafsier Soerat Al-Ma’oen (1930) written by K.H. Abdulchalim. This Sundanese-language work is actually developed as the result of Abdulchalim’s reading on the Quranic exegesis of Juz ‘Amma was written by Muhammad Abduh. Abdulchalim tried to interpret this surah a…
Tasawuf Sunda Dalam Naskah Asmarandana Ngagurit Kaburu Burit (Or. 7876)
The spread of Islam in the Archipelago was closely tied to the roles of Sufi ulama. The circulation of Sufi work in Nusantara proves a strong connection between this region and the Middle East. In West Java, a number of these work expose Sufi teachings in the form of Sundanese Sufi literature, such as the work by Haji Hasan Mustafa. He is considered the greatest Sundanese poet whose work features strong influences of wahdat al-wujud. This paper a…
Al-Qur’ān wa al-Isti‘mār
K.H. Ahmad Sanusi played an important role in developing the intellectual traditions of pesantren in Priangan, West Java, Indonesia. Scholars have already gone some way in describing this role. However, Sanusi’s response to colonialism has, in comparison, almost gone unnoticed. Generally, Sanusi’s works were published while he was in exile, which happened shortly after his return from Mecca. For example, one of his critical works of colonialism w…
Metrical Verse as a Rule of Qur’anic Translation
The paper aims to analyze how literary translations of the Quran can grasp the meaning of the Quran and ‘subordinate’ it to local poetry rules, using R.A.A. Wiranatakoesoema’s Soerat Al-Baqarah as the object of study. It is a Sundanese poetic translation of the Quran in the form of guguritan or dangding and as such this study is focused on the implications of canto rules to the Quranic meaning field in the translation, analyzed using intertextual…
Pembacaan Dangding Haji Hasan Mustapa terhadap Sastra Sufistik Sunda di Era Budaya Popular
Dangding as a literary work is only meaningful when chanted. When one just reads in his/her mind silently, dangding becomes dry and lacks of meaning. This paper discusses the position of Mustapa’s dangding in literary context and their relevance to contemporary Sundanese discourse. The main focus of this study is the character of his mystical verses, structural aspects of dangding as a Sufism vessel, and to examine any discrepancy of meaning in r…
Perempuan Dan Kearifan Lokal
Mengkaji konstruksi identitas gender dalam komunitas adat dengan kearifan lokalnya ibarat pisau bermata dua. Ia bisa mendominasi atau sebaliknya membebaskan. Salah satu kecenderungan positif bagi pembebasan perempuan adalah performativitas perempuan dalam ritual adat Sunda. Kajian ini memfokuskan pada masalah performativitas perempuan dalam ritual mapag (menyambut) Dewi Sri di komunitas adat Kampung Banceuy di Kabupaten Subang, Jawa Barat. Studi …
Makhṭūṭat Kinanti [Tutur Teu Kacatur Batur]
Although the influence of Sundanese interpretations of Islam is not clearly evident in Indonesia’s Islamic networks, these local interpretations have played a crucial role in the indigenization of Islam in the region. This article analyses Haji Hasan Mustapa’s dangding manuscript on Sundanese expressions of Sufism in the 19th century. Mustapa’s teachings on Sundanese dangding sufism suggests efforts to harmonize waḥdat al-wujūd teachings with Sun…
Sundanese Sufi Literature and Local Islamic Identity
In many scholarly discussions, the network of Malay-Indonesian ulama has gained important attention as it is maintained as the major element contributing to the process of Islamization in Sunda region (West Java), whereas the articulation of Islam in the lights of the indigenization efforts of Islam is often neglected. The article discusses dangding as one of Sundanese metrical verses by a renown Sundanese poet, Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930). It…
Perempuan Dan Kearifan Lokal
Mengkaji konstruksi identitas gender dalam komunitas adat dengan kearifan lokalnya ibarat pisau bermata dua. Ia bisa mendominasi atau sebaliknya membebaskan. Salah satu kecenderungan positif bagi pembebasan perempuan adalah performativitas perempuan dalam ritual adat Sunda. Kajian ini memfokuskan pada masalah performativitas perempuan dalam ritual mapag (menyambut) Dewi Sri di komunitas adat Kampung Banceuy di Kabupaten Subang, Jawa Barat. Studi …
Sundanese Sufi Literature and Local Islamic Identity
In many scholarly discussions, the network of Malay-Indonesian ulama has gained important attention as it is maintained as the major element contributing to the process of Islamization in Sunda region (West Java), whereas the articulation of Islam in the lights of the indigenization efforts of Islam is often neglected. The article discusses dangding as one of Sundanese metrical verses by a renown Sundanese poet, Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930). It…
Makhṭūṭat Kinanti [Tutur Teu Kacatur Batur]
Although the influence of Sundanese interpretations of Islam is not clearly evident in Indonesia’s Islamic networks, these local interpretations have played a crucial role in the indigenization of Islam in the region. This article analyses Haji Hasan Mustapa’s dangding manuscript on Sundanese expressions of Sufism in the 19th century. Mustapa’s teachings on Sundanese dangding sufism suggests efforts to harmonize waḥdat al-wujūd teachings with Sun…
Pembacaan Dangding Haji Hasan Mustapa terhadap Sastra Sufistik Sunda di Era Budaya Popular
Dangding as a literary work is only meaningful when chanted. When one just reads in his/her mind silently, dangding becomes dry and lacks of meaning. This paper discusses the position of Mustapa’s dangding in literary context and their relevance to contemporary Sundanese discourse. The main focus of this study is the character of his mystical verses, structural aspects of dangding as a Sufism vessel, and to examine any discrepancy of meaning in r…
Perempuan Dan Kearifan Lokal
Mengkaji konstruksi identitas gender dalam komunitas adat dengan kearifan lokalnya ibarat pisau bermata dua. Ia bisa mendominasi atau sebaliknya membebaskan. Salah satu kecenderungan positif bagi pembebasan perempuan adalah performativitas perempuan dalam ritual adat Sunda. Kajian ini memfokuskan pada masalah performativitas perempuan dalam ritual mapag (menyambut) Dewi Sri di komunitas adat Kampung Banceuy di Kabupaten Subang, Jawa Barat. Studi …
Al-Qur’ān wa al-Isti‘mār
K.H. Ahmad Sanusi played an important role in developing the intellectual traditions of pesantren in Priangan, West Java, Indonesia. Scholars have already gone some way in describing this role. However, Sanusi’s response to colonialism has, in comparison, almost gone unnoticed. Generally, Sanusi’s works were published while he was in exile, which happened shortly after his return from Mecca. For example, one of his critical works of colonialism w…
Metrical Verse as a Rule of Qur’anic Translation
The paper aims to analyze how literary translations of the Quran can grasp the meaning of the Quran and ‘subordinate’ it to local poetry rules, using R.A.A. Wiranatakoesoema’s Soerat Al-Baqarah as the object of study. It is a Sundanese poetic translation of the Quran in the form of guguritan or dangding and as such this study is focused on the implications of canto rules to the Quranic meaning field in the translation, analyzed using intertextual…
Tasawuf Sunda Dalam Naskah Asmarandana Ngagurit Kaburu Burit (Or. 7876)
The spread of Islam in the Archipelago was closely tied to the roles of Sufi ulama. The circulation of Sufi work in Nusantara proves a strong connection between this region and the Middle East. In West Java, a number of these work expose Sufi teachings in the form of Sundanese Sufi literature, such as the work by Haji Hasan Mustafa. He is considered the greatest Sundanese poet whose work features strong influences of wahdat al-wujud. This paper a…
Tafsīr filantropīyat al-Qur’ān al-Karīm fī Indonesia
This article discusses the Quranic exegesis concerning social care that is used as a base-praxis for philanthropy and social gatherings in the colonial period. The object of this study is Tafsier Soerat Al-Ma’oen (1930) written by K.H. Abdulchalim. This Sundanese-language work is actually developed as the result of Abdulchalim’s reading on the Quranic exegesis of Juz ‘Amma was written by Muhammad Abduh. Abdulchalim tried to interpret this surah a…
Ayat Suci Lenyepaneun and Social Critiques
One of the main objectives of the tafsr (Quranic interpretation) is to explain its Quranic contents to readers. In fact, tafsr also demonstrates an interaction between writers of tafsr and their socio-context where they lives. In Sundanese region, Moh. E. Hasim also criticised the New Order's policies when he wrote his tafsr called Ayat Suci Lenyepaneun. What are his critiques? How did he make critiques when at the same time he was writing the ta…
Tafsir Al-Qur’an dari dan untuk Orang Sunda
This article examines the peculiarities of one of Sundanese tafsirs or Qur’anic commentaries in West Java, Moh. E. Hasim’s Ayat Suci Lenyepaneun. Using discourse analysis approach, this study illustrates how the author arranges his interpretation in line with Sundanese culture and socio-religious background in modern Indonesia. There are some characteristics of Hasim’s Lenyepaneun: nuances of Sundanese literature and nature, Sundanese daily stori…
Authorship of the Jawi ‘Ulama’ in Egypt
Nawawī of Banten (1813–1897) and Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852–1930) are two important figures of Malay-Indonesian Muslim scholars (‘ulamā’) who have been widely studied. However, personal proximity of these two ‘ulamā’ seems to escape from scholarly discussion. Seen from the light of scholarly commenting (sharh) tradition, this study on the other hand attempts to show their personal proximity between the senior teacher and young student when they liv…
Menjaga Sastra Sunda, Menempuh Jalan Spiritualitas Berbeda
Sundanese people lost one of the main guardians of their culture, Ajip Rosidi (1938-2020). He is a writer who has a great contribution in the treasure of Indonesian and regional literature. One of his important contributions is preserving the legacy of the works of Haji Hasan Mustapa (1852-1930), the greatest Sundanese poet who lived during the colonial period. This study focuses on Ajip’s contribution to Hasan Mustapa’s works. The source is Ajip…
Reformist Muslim Discourse in the Sundanese Commentary of the Qur’ān
This article focuses on reformist Muslim discourse in the Sundanese commentary of the Qur’ān or tafsīr, entitle Sababaraha Naséhat Tina Qur’an Surat al-Hudjurot, some advice of sūrah Al-Hujurāt (1971). The book was written by E. Abdurrahman (1912-1983), an activist of a reformist Islamic organization, Islamic Union (Persatuan Islam or Persis). He has been a chairman of Persis from 1962-1983. They have a slogan “back to the Qur’ān and Hadīth” as w…
Al-Sajā’ir wa shabakat al-‘ulamā’ al-Miṣrīyīn fī Nusantara
This study reveals on fatwas concerning cigarettes in the Archipelago in the 19th century. The primary source is an Arabic manuscript from Kuningan, West Java, digitized by DREAMSEA, entitled “Bāb fī Bayān Ḥukm Shurb al-Dukhān”. It does not only use arguments from sharia, the interpretation of ulama, and health reasons but also refers to myths and conspiracies. This study finds that this manuscript mentions the existence of ḥaram (prohibited) and…
Colonial informants and the Acehnese-Dutch war
This article discusses the contribution of colonial informants during the Acehnese-Dutch war (1873–c.1912) in responding to Teuku Umar’s collaboration with the Dutch authorities. The object of this study is a collection of letters from the Chief Penghulu of Kutaraja (1893–1895), Haji Hasan Mustapa, to his colonial friend, C. Snouck Hurgronje. These letters are held at the Leiden University Library (Cod. Or. 18.097). Hasan Mustapa’s name is rarely…
Qur'anic Interpretation in the Form of Sundanese Poetry
This article focuses on Quranic interpretation in the form of Sundanese poetry or Sundanese nadoman. The object is Kitāb al-Tabyīn al-Ajlá wa al-Ahlá fī Tafsīr Sūrah al-A'lá written by K.H. Ahmad Dimyati (1886-1946) a famous scholar from the Sukamiskin Islamic Boarding School (Pesantren) in Bandung. This book is a tafsir of surah al-A'la (Q.87: 1-19) in Sundanese with pegon style letters. Compared to Qur'anic translations, poeticized forms of int…
Qur’an Translation and Reformist daʿwa
Qur'an translation was an important element of the daʿwa activities of reformist Muslims in West Java at the beginning of the twentieth century, as is reflected in the publication of the Sundanese translation of Ahmad Hassan's Tafsir Al-Foerqan, as well as other Qur'an translations penned by his friends and associates. These Sundanese translations not only promote a reformist ideology, but also demonstrate a shift in the formation of translation …
Risālat al-Sheikh Asnāwī al-Quds al-Jāwī
This article is carried out to discuss the rebuttal of Jawi ulama, K.H. Raden Muḥammad Asnawi Kudus (1861-1959), against the fatwa of the muftī of Mecca, Sheikh ‘Abdullāh al-Zawāwī (1850-1925), in the early twentieth century. Asnawi’s rebuttal was written in an Arabic manuscript from Banyuwangi entitled Risālat al-Sheikh Asnawī al-Quds al-Jāwī and digitized by the DREAMSEA project DS 0042 00001. The pages contain rebuttal of Asnawi against al-Zaw…
C. Snouck Hurgronje dan Wajah Islamnya
Snouck
Interpretation of Gender Verses According to Imam Al-Tabarī and Asma Barlas
This study discusses the differences in interpretation of gender verses in Islam based on the interpretation of Jāmi’ al-Bayān by Imam al-Ṭabarī and Believing Women in Islam by Asma Barlas. The main focus of this study is the analysis of Qs. An-Nisā’ [4]: 1 on the creation of women, Qs. An-Nisā’ [4]: 3 on polygamy, and Qs. An-Nisā’ [4]: 34 on male leadership and nusyuz. This study uses the muqāran (comparative) interpretation method and Hans-Geor…
Spiritual Motivation in the Quran
Religion and spirituality are intertwined, with spirituality at the core of religious experience. Recent studies highlight the connection between spirituality and mental health, self-efficacy, and self-respect. In 2001, Ary Ginanjar Agustian introduced ESQ 165, a religious phenomenon aimed at enhancing human resources through spirituality. However, this concept faced criticism from some Islamic scholars, including Malaysian mufti Datuk Hj. Wan Za…
Translating Sacred Scriptures in Sundanese
This study critically examines the various characteristics of the Sundanese translations of the Bible and the Qur’an. It focuses on two translations of each scripture—S. Coolsma’s 1891 and the LAI 1991 editions of the Bible, alongside Miwah Tarjamahna (2002) and MORA (2020) translations of the Qur’an. Using library research and employing Venuti’s theory of foreignization-domestication, as well as Vermeer’s Skopos theory, this study examines lingu…
Sundanese "kitāb" printed in early-twentieth-century Egypt as evidence of Islamic transregional networks
This article will focus on Sundanese literacy as observed in the Islamic transregional networks established between the Middle East and West Java in the early twentieth century. Sundanese kitāb printed in Egypt by three Sundanese ulama reflect an increasingly intensive use of the Sundanese language in Islamic teaching in West Java compared to the earlier predominant use of Javanese. There is also a shift on the part of Sundanese ulama from manusc…
Philosophy (20 works) · History (15 works) · Islamic Studies and Radicalism (15 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Art (11 works) · Islam (11 works) · Theology (11 works) · Asian Studies and History (10 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (10 works)