Preserving Traditional Islamic Thought and Practice: The Codified SūrahYāsīn and Taḥlīl Texts in Indonesia

Abstract

This paper tries to construct the role of the codified SūrahYāsīn and 
Taḥlīl texts in Indonesia.The present paper also attempts to investigate the
sequential aspects of the transmission of sūrahYāsīn from the single sūrah
until it is compiled with taḥlīl texts and become widely used among
traditionalist Muslims in Indonesia. The paper provides the faḍā’il al-a‘māl
based on some muslim scholars. Some important questions will be dealt
here, namely: why does sūrah Yāsīn has a special position? How was
sūrahYāsīn and taḥlīl texts compiled in Indonesia? In this paper, I argue that
the sūrahYāsīn compiled with taḥlīl texts is sort of textual forms which
preserve the traditional Islamic thought and practices in Indonesia.