A "wali"’s quest for guidance; The Islamic genealogies of the "Seh Mlaya"

• Published in: Wacana (Depok, Bogor, Indonesia) Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 675 - 692
• Main Author: Verena Meyer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 01.10.2021
• Subjects: "wali sanga"; al-ghazālī; asceticism; paradox; syattariyah

The Seh Mlaya is a narrative tradition of Sunan Kalijaga’s conversion and becoming a wali that is well-known for its drawing on pre-Islamic narrative and discursive legacies. In this article, I explore the Islamic genealogies of the narrative as told in a Surakarta manuscript (RP 333). I argue that...