Open AccessThe Mystery Of The Human Person : Mystical Anthropology In Hamzah Fansuri’s Shair
Author(s) -
Albertus Bagus Laksana
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
kanz philosophia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2442-5451
pISSN - 2407-1056
DOI - 10.20871/kpjipm.v6i1.148
Subject(s) - mysticism , sufism , poetry , theme (computing) , dignity , philosophy , islam , jewish mysticism , malay , religious studies , literature , theology , anthropology , sociology , art , law , linguistics , computer science , political science , operating system
This essay endeavors to look closely at the mystical theological anthropology of Hamzah Fansuri, the first and one of the greatest Sufi writers in the Malay world. Mystical anthropology is arguably the underlying theme of all Fansuri’s poems and he develops this mystical discourse on the theomorphic dignity of every human person, together with the dynamic of return to God, by using some quite original imageries and symbolisms of his own. However, Fansuri’s mystical theological anthropology belongs to the tradition of Ibn al-‘Arabi (the wujudiyyah doctrince), while his works also betray familiarity with and the influence of other great mystics of Islam, such as Attar and Hafez.Keywords : Fansuri, Islamic mysticism, Sufism, anthropology, union with God