Alifah Yasmin

Sufi Aesthetics as an Epistemological Critique of Western Aesthetic Thought:

Aqlania December 30, 2025 Alifah Yasmin

Contemporary discussions on aesthetics are still largely framed by Western secular-rationalist assumptions that detach beauty from moral vision, spiritual cultivation, and theocentric meaning. This tendency contrasts sharply with Islamic intellectual traditions, especially Sufi thought, which views aesthetic experience as part of the holistic formation of the human soul (tazkiyat al-nafs) and...