Guidance of the Intelligent Toward the Path of the Friends of God: Hidāyat al-Adhkiyāʾ ilā Ṭarīq al-Awliyāʾ - A Textual Study and Intellectual Commentary (Sufism and Spiritualism)
Language: English
Published by Kba13 Insight, 2026
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- Title
- Guidance of the Intelligent Toward the Path of the Friends of God: Hidāyat al-Adhkiyāʾ ilā Ṭarīq al-Awliyāʾ - A Textual Study and Intellectual Commentary (Sufism and Spiritualism)
- Author
- Ahmad, Kamaruzzaman Bustamam
- Publisher
- Kba13 Insight
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798235131408
- Series
- Book 1 of 7: Sufi & Spiritual Civilization Series
A journey into one of the most influential yet often overlooked texts of the Islamic spiritual tradition.
For centuries, Hidāyat al-Adhkiyā' ilā Ṭarīq al-Awliyā' by Shaykh Zayn al-Dīn al-Malībārī has guided students of Islamic knowledge across the Indian Ocean world, especially within the Malay-Indonesian pondok and pesantren traditions.
This book offers a careful intellectual reading of this classical Sufi poem, exploring how a concise work of spiritual instruction contains a profound vision of knowledge, the human soul, ethical transformation, and the path toward God.
Rather than approaching Hidāyat al-Adhkiyā' merely as a historical document, this study examines its deeper conceptual universe:
- the relationship between ʿilm (knowledge) and hidāyah (guidance)
- the spiritual anthropology of the qalb, nafs, and human transformation
- the integration of sharīʿah, ṭarīqah, and ḥaqīqah
- the stages (maqāmāt) of the Sufi path
- the role of adab, sincerity, purification, and spiritual discipline
- the transmission of Islamic learning through Arabic texts and Malay-Jawi scholarship
Through linguistic analysis, intellectual history, and engagement with the wider Sunni Sufi tradition, this work situates Hidāyat al-Adhkiyā' within a broader conversation involving classical Islamic spirituality, religious education, and the preservation of knowledge across generations.
It also explores how a small didactic poem (naẓm) became a living text - memorized, studied, and transmitted through networks of scholars connecting Arabia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
This book is written for readers interested in:
✓ Islamic philosophy and spirituality
✓ Sufism and classical Islamic texts
✓ Malay-Indonesian intellectual history
✓ Traditional Islamic education
✓ The relationship between knowledge, ethics, and inner transformation
At a time when information is abundant but wisdom is increasingly difficult to cultivate, Hidāyat al-Adhkiyā' invites modern readers to reconsider an older understanding of knowledge: not simply as accumulation of facts, but as the formation of the human being.
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About the Author
Prof. Kamaruzzaman Bustamam Ahmad, Ph.D. is an Indonesian scholar, philosopher, and author whose works explore the intersections of religion, culture, and the moral imagination of modernity. He is the founder of KBA13 Insight, a digital think tank and publishing platform dedicated to critical and interdisciplinary analysis of philosophy, geopolitics, religion, and society.
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