SUPERIORITAS LAKI-LAKI DALAM DUNIA SUFI: Tinjauan Budaya Islam dalam Praktek Kepemimpinan Spiritual

Abstract

Substantially, the spiritual teaching of Sufism is not represented and represents one of gender group, male or female an sich. The Sufism spiritual teaching has great universal scope for male and female. In the empirical domain, in fact, the spiritual teaching still conduct patrimonial culture behavior which makes the original Sufism spiritual teaching endangered to fail. This situation also happened in the leadership on the practices of tasawuf teaching culture which has been dominated by the males. As a consequence, the female will never get the chance to lead the teaching practice. The situation encourages the writer to dig up the issues on imbalance in the male and female role in the Sufism teaching practices. The article raises the questions on should the spiritual teacher be the male? And why does the leadership capacity of the spiritual teaching has been dominated by the male? Furthermore, the exploration will be helpful resource to have better understanding on the Sufism teaching practice.