As’ad, Mahrus2019-09-252019-09-252016-01-042012http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/232241This essay studies the influence of neo-Sufism on the continuity of tasawwuf doctrine and new tarekats emerged during the last two centuries of medieval Islamic period. The raise of neo-Sufism movement in fourteenth century had greatly influenced the nature and characteristics of the tasawuf and the new tarekats of the succeeding era. In addition to give impetus in ‘purification’ of the doctrines to avoid the tasawuf and tarekat from intrusion of un-Islamic elements, the neo-Sufism has provided with guidance so that they should be kept under the syariat control. This new tendency has forced the tasawwuf and tarekats to weaken their support to the doctrine of emanation of God toward His creatures, and replaces it with the transcendent doctrine. The return to the original stipulations of the Qur’an and the Sunnah liberated the tasawuf and the new tarekats from their un-Islamic characters. The Neo-Sufism movement had succeeded in changing the orientation of the tasawwuf and the new tarekas to be more responsive to the worldly interest.indWith permission of the license/copyright holderneosufismpurificationorthodoxyactivismCultural ethicsSecularisation and ethicsReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsTheological ethicsPhilosophical ethicsJournal volume