This article is about to describe a research result on the study of language maintenance efforts planned by Pamekasan (a district in Madura island). This study is considered urgent due to a fact that Madurese (language spoken by Madura people) have been gradually left by the speakers. Three questions are purposed as the research focus, they are 1) how local government of Pamekasan use instructi…
This paper tries to expose critically and analitically the historical dimension of tasawuf as far as its epistemological development is concerned. It argues that as a system of knowledge, tasawuf constitutes part and parcel of the larger Islamic epistemological system and shares with other forms of knowledge in its historical dimension. By referring in particular to the evolution of sufistic id…