The Aesthetic Dialogue between Arabic Sufi Literature and Hans Bague Jassin Qur’anic Poetry: An Intertextual and Spiritual Study

Abstrak

This study seeks to delineate the aesthetic interplay between classical Arabic Sufi literature and H. B. Jassin’s Qur’anic poetry, emphasizing the evolution of Qur’anic aesthetic values from Arabic to Indonesian poetic expression. The primary emphasis is to elucidate the intertextual interactions between the spiritual beauty represented in Sufi literature, particularly the works of Ibn al-Fāriḍ and al-Junaid al-Baghdadi, and H. B. Jassin's Al-Qur’ān Berwajah Puisi (1978). This study utilizes an interdisciplinary methodology that integrates Kristeva-Barthes intertextuality, Islamic aesthetic hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), and the Qur’anic concepts of balāghah and i‘jāz. The analysis encompasses textual and spiritual interpretations of two primary corpora: classical Arabic Sufi poetry and Jassin’s poetic Qur’ān. The results indicate that Jassin does not solely translate Qur’anic verses linguistically; he constructs a spiritual conduit that integrates the aesthetic essence of revelation into the Indonesian Islamic cultural framework. The research concludes that Al-Qur’ān Berwajah Puisi embodies a transnational Islamic aesthetic form, wherein divine beauty, originating from the Arab Sufi tradition, is reinterpreted through the language and culture of the Nusantara. Consequently, this study broadens the discourse of Indonesian Islamic literature as a domain for spiritual interpretation that links Arab heritage with Indonesian modernity.