RT Article
T1 "Trees Pray for Humanity": Eco-sufism, Nonhuman Agency, and Environmental Ethical Practice in Indonesia
JF Worldviews
VO 29
IS 3
SP 195
OP 222
A1 Amri, Ulil
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/196111027X
AB Indonesian Muslims learn, teach, and practice eco-sufism through tree planting activities in East Java, Indonesia. They view trees as sentient beings with agentive capacity to act, shape, and contribute to the formation of humanity’s socio-cultural worlds. The trees are respected not only for their material capacities, but also for their spiritual powers, which connects humanity to the divine. This article examines how Muslims engage in Islamic eco-sufism by planting locally significant trees—both spiritually and materially—such as Morinda citrifolia (noni/mengkudu), Manilkara zapota (sawo manila), Manilkara kauki (sawo kecik), and Reutealis trisperma (tung/Kemiri sunan). Furthermore, it situates Islamic eco-sufism within contemporary discussions on new materialism’s ontological turn to better understand how nonhuman trees play crucial roles in shaping socio-cultural worlds and furthermore to revitalize conversations on contemporary environmental ethical practices.
K1 Islam
K1 eco-sufism
K1 environmental ethical practice
K1 New Materialism
DO 10.1163/15685357-02903005